FOX is the main network partner of the Big 10 and PAC. They must have followed ESPN and pulled some strings. Fox would to have USC showcased in their Big Noon Kickoff window.
I stopped paying attention a long time ago. The major colleges are now professional minor leagues. The players are openly paid. Do players have to report their payola? Is there any cap, whether per player or per school? How many colleges are competitive at moneyball?
Erdoğan warns Turkey could still block UCLA’s and USC’s accession to Big Ten.
This is going to hurt the University of Nike...
Can’t wait for Rutgers v UCLA 9am, PST.
Can Big 10 colleges really justify the additional expense and scheduling complication of adding two west coast teams to the league? That’s a lot of teams, not just football!
Laughs in SEC.
The TV markets will be incredibly, tho
It's time to kick out Maryland, Rutgers, Nebraska, and Penn State, too.
Make the Big Ten the Big Ten Again!
USC is gonna have a blast, playing in Ann Arbor, in November.
So the So Cal schools will move on from getting close wins in the PAC 12 to getting their a$$e$ kicked in the Big 10
They cannot win in the Pac and now they want to lose in the Big 10 worse?
Makes no sense geographically. Ppl aren’t gonna travel to the Mid West to see west coast teams play there 5-6 times a year. I understand about the PAC 12 leadership bringing this on themselves though. I get extremely pissed that I can rarely watch ASU play on DirecTV and rant about it every fall. But this move will certainly make it worse for the remaining PAC teams. 🤬
Now the Rose Bowl can have Southern Cal vs Ore.
Quite a stretch though as SC would have to beat Ohio St.
Big (hexadecimal) Ten
Well......bye........
There are two monster conferences that have almost all of the money and fans and recruits.
Then there’s (assuming ND joins) a decent conference in the ACC though its clearly a massive step down from the Big 10 and SEC.
Then there’s just wreckage left over. Take the best of the rump Big 12 and rump PAC and you still don’t have a major conference.
The B1G Network is making more money for the conference than the SEC is getting from ESecPN. Adding a coast to coast demographic, plus the summer destination for winter B1G sports into some warm climate games, this bodes well for the B1G. I don’t think the SEC or ESecPN is laughing.
Looks like there will be 4 each 16-team conferences for football soon.
The Pacific Coast League (a top-level baseball minor league) has teams as far east as Texas. Maybe what’s left of the Pac 12 can merge with what’s left of the Big 12. I think that may be the only way that they can remain a power conference.
Set up divisions like they have in some othe conferences, including the Big Ten — which, BTW, will have to restructure its divisions.