COLUMBUS, Ohio — In July of 2022, the Southwest came North in college football. Permanently. When the Big Ten announced the addition of new members USC and UCLA — two sunny California schools joining a conference with its headquarters in Chicago and its heartbeat in Ohio – one victory for the North was complete. For two decades, a second college football kingdom has been consolidating in Columbus, the most logical outpost for a college football battle against the power in the South. Fought on the field and in meeting rooms, tracked on scoreboards and in TV contracts, this wasn’t a fight to rule college football. It was to be The Kings of the North. The question is not necessarily who can beat Alabama and Georgia and Clemson and LSU and Miami and Florida State, with schools in the South winning 19 of the 21 national titles this century. The question…
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