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Big Ten Rumored To Be Adding Four Prominent Schools This Week (Clemson, FSU, Oregon, & Washington)
Athlon Sports ^ | 7-30-2023 | Alec Arend

Posted on 07/31/2023 8:29:27 AM PDT by FLNittany

College expansion has been a wild ride over the past year or so, and it doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon.

The Big Ten has spearheaded the movement. The storied conference adds USC and UCLA in 2024. It may not be done, either.

Barstool Sports' Jack McGuire is hearing a rumor that the Big Ten is adding four schools this week: Clemson, Florida State, Oregon and Washington.

That would poach two universities from the ACC - arguably its top-two athletics programs - and two from the Pac-12 - arguably its best as well, even with USC and UCLA in the mix.

Oregon and Washington have been rumored to the Big Ten for a while now, but the rumors died down recently. But Colorado's abrupt exit to the Big 12 has pretty much re-opened the door.

The expectation is that the Pac-12 is done for. Eventually, schools like Arizona, Arizona State and Utah will likely head to the Big 12. Oregon and Washington need a new home, and each belongs in the Big Ten.

Clemson and Florida State, meanwhile, probably make more sense for the SEC. But the Big Ten might want to enter the Florida recruiting market and tap into the Clemson roots.

Buckle up. It could be a busy week in college athletics.

(Excerpt) Read more at athlonsports.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: bigten; football; ncaa
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To: DesertRhino

You’re onto something.

Bark Obama types hate men and sports. The Left has openly been feminizing every institution since the 80’s, and thinking about how to spread it since at least the 60’s.

They used to hate war until it became profitable as a money laundering operation.


41 posted on 07/31/2023 9:28:46 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. / The USA is occupied by petty tyrants. )
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To: FLNittany

Let the SEC take both Clemson and FSU. I don’t want them in these parts.


42 posted on 07/31/2023 9:32:27 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: nickcarraway

“Eventually there will only be two conferences?”

Taco Bell East and Taco Bell West

https://www.tacobell.com/blog/demolition-man


43 posted on 07/31/2023 9:35:19 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: FLNittany
"The Pac 10 is sort of falling apart."

!!!!


44 posted on 07/31/2023 9:38:37 AM PDT by Wayne07
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To: DennisR

that’s him


45 posted on 07/31/2023 9:41:32 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: FLNittany

Add this to the pay to play for college athletes and small or less financialy attractive schools essentially become intermural sports programs.


46 posted on 07/31/2023 9:45:18 AM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: nickcarraway

De facto, this would make it so. You might have a bunch of other conferences, but they would all be 2nd tier.


47 posted on 07/31/2023 9:55:06 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: EEGator

I also remember a time of watching sports without legal gambling advertising.

Yup. It’s all just a dirty game now.


48 posted on 07/31/2023 9:55:39 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: llevrok

You can be gymnast/whore now too.


49 posted on 07/31/2023 10:02:47 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: FLNittany
College football is divided into three parts:

1. Meaningless pre-season games
2, Ohio State vs. Michigan
3. Post-season exhibition games.

50 posted on 07/31/2023 10:03:13 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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To: jagusafr

I’m not fond of Earth currently. I like nature, humanity less so.


51 posted on 07/31/2023 10:05:08 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: FLNittany

Should make for some great TV where I live


52 posted on 07/31/2023 10:34:46 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: nickcarraway

No. There will be one conference with two divisions. They will argue over whether to call it The BIG or the SEC. Unable to agree, they will compromise on The TBL, for The TVBucks League.


53 posted on 07/31/2023 11:03:36 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: Alberta's Child

Yes but at one time it had the University of Chicago and the first Heisman Trophy Winner-Jay Berwanger, 1935.


54 posted on 07/31/2023 11:05:42 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: FLNittany

The way I see it, if everyone is gonna be Big 10, no one is gonna be Big 10. “Big 10” will become a euphemism. How often will they ever play each other in conference? Every 3-5 years?

Do the Hokey-Pokey; that’s what it’s all about.


55 posted on 07/31/2023 11:06:19 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: KarlInOhio

Yep.


56 posted on 07/31/2023 11:20:41 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: FLNittany

Could careless.....


57 posted on 07/31/2023 11:22:26 AM PDT by Osage Orange ( B U)
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To: Migraine
After this season, there are no more divisions in the B1G. I expect the SEC to do the same in a few years. Also, the conference championship games though super profitable, end up hurting in the end. No real need for them in the new playoff format.


58 posted on 07/31/2023 11:23:24 AM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: FLNittany

If they add Clempson and FSwho to the conference, that’ll make the conference even more ridiculous than this already is.


59 posted on 07/31/2023 11:31:57 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: KarlInOhio

The Game!


60 posted on 07/31/2023 11:32:45 AM PDT by dakine
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