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I would prefer an alternative version of history where:

Nebraska joins the Big Ten the same year as Penn St did, 1993.  Big12 forms 3 years early and adds BYU as Nebraska's replacement.

Then change the CCG game rules in 1993 so that you don't need divisions to have a CCG,.  You only need at least 12 teams total.  So the BigTen, Big12, SEC,ACC and Pac all eventually have 12 teams and CCGs with no divisions.  

Then move up the start of the BCS to 1993 so that the 2 best teams are always playing for the national championship.

Oh geez here come the soccer dorks with their promotion/relegation ideas. 

This.

The other part of this post gets in the way, because, I, too, like the 11-team Big Ten of the mid-90s. I liked the Big 12, too--with Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and aTm all in the same place.

But if I were starting from scratch, I would go with 10-team conferences (and promotion/relegation to allow the non-power conference teams a chance to get into a power conference to compete for the major championship).

You had me until "relegation."