The G6 teams to watch is UCF or USF.
The Big 10 = 14 is happy to cash those checks from DC and NYC metro cable subscribers who are forced fed the Big 10 = 14 network. Everyone knew the admittance of those 2 programs with zero football tradition was a pure money grab.
The argument for adding Rutgers & Maryland to the Big Ten never had anything to do with the quality of those programs at that time. It was all about TV revenue. All the major conferences are playing this game to one degree or another. I am sympathetic to your argument. I would much rather have seen the Big 10 go in the other geographic direction, but they wanted to pull the TV dollars out of NYC & DC regions.