Isn't life confusing enough without... ?

I was at Walmart yesterday, scanning old analog snapshots, and discovered the 2011 edition of Texas Football magazine was for sale. That's a sure sign football season is just around the corner, with new conference alignments being tested for the first time. The Big 12 will have ten teams on the field this fall, and the Big Ten will have twelve.  There's something fundamentally wrong with that, and you'd think the two conferences would negotiate some kind of name swap. Things were bad enough when the Big Ten had eleven teams, but now there are THREE major conferences with misleading names. My suggestion, given the likelihood that conferences will continue to add and drop members, is to eliminate the practice of using numbers altogether. The Pac-10 could change their name to Sunshine Supermen, for example (if the reference to an old Donovan song isn't too arcane).