scheduling games with the Big-10 BEFORE the alliance is supposed to start in 2017.
Won't that make the Yewts schedule oh so much harder, which KWhitt says they are trying to avoid?
Apparently some Pac-12 teams are not on board with the alliance:

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/48673/big-ten-pac-12-series-still-on-solid-ground