What is wrong with this picture? Oregon played UCLA last night in what was billed as the Ducks’ “Big 10 opener.”

What? Huh? Are you kidding me?

The Ducks smoked the Bruins, which did my heart good. Those of us who grew up on the Pacific Coast, who cheered for Pac 12 teams’ success against the Big 10 in the Rose Bowl at the end of every college football season, are finding it a little tough to swallow that the Ducks, Huskies, Trojans and Bruins are now part of the hated Big 10 … which has morphed into the Big Monstrosity

I get that money drives everything these days. The Pac 12 no longer really exists. The Big 10 is now the Big 20 (or maybe it’s 30). What’s more, the Ducks beat the Bruins in the Rose Bowl, which doubles as the Bruins’ home field when it isn’t serving as the site for the “Granddaddy of All Bowls.”

I am going to realign my own gridiron bias.