Posted on 06/30/2022 4:03:59 PM PDT by C19fan
USC and UCLA, two of the Pac-12's flagship programs, are planning to leave the conference for the Big Ten as early as 2024, and a move is considered imminent, sources confirmed to ESPN on Thursday. There is still a formal notification process, as the two schools have to let the Pac-12 know their intentions to leave. USC and UCLA also have to formally apply to the Big Ten. According to a source, that process is underway.
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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.
Yep, like Red Wing games starting at 10:30 pm for all the Western Conference games.
Travel expenses in the for USC and UCLA will be hell. Your new PiG10 West will be USC, UCLA, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois and Northwestern - still nobody that can beat Ohio State.
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.
You might want to put Michigan in there.
The concluding line of the fight song is “The Champions of the West.” (Before it was the Big 10 it was the Western Conference. Michigan State with a slightly different name made it the Big 10).
When this happens, the Big Ten will include all three of the major TV markets. (They get New York and Philadelphia via Rutgers.) They also have DC and Baltimore via Maryland. Next, do they move south to try and get a couple of those markets?
Won’t it be fun when UCLA or USC goes to the Rose Bowl as eh Big Ten representative (hence, the visiting team.)
Ithink they’re aiming for 20. Some mroe teams inbetween Nebraska and the West Coast.
Wow.
That’s some serious cherrypicking there.
Nebraska athletetes are mo def going to be spending a lot of time in the western skis if what you say turns out to be what happens. Might not be what they bargained for.
Yes, Michiganhas a great fight song. I went to school about 50 miles west of there, so I know the song. (I also know all the words to Ohio State’s fight song.)
skies
If the PAC Ten loses USC and UCLA to the Big Ten, the Pac Ten might lose its right if first refusal to have a team appear in the so-called “Rose Bowl” game.
Funny how post-season college football games are all called bowl games.
The only reason the Rose Bowl game was ever referred to by that name was that it was always played in Pasadena’s Rose Bowl.
The Big Ten is now coast to coast with 5 of the 7 largest media markets.
I agree!!!!
For $100 million yearly the colleges will be able to manage their travel budgets just fine.
The only large market the Big ten is missing is Texas.
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