| NEWS USC and UCLA Leaves Pac-12 to Join Big Ten in 2024

[BamaFan334]

USC, UCLA looking to leave Pac-12 for Big Ten in 2024, though deal not yet finalized

A second round of power conference realignment in as many years may be about to begin

www.cbssports.com

Quick road trips for those guys.

 

[bama alum]

If Oregon can follow suit, then this will set up the four conferences to eventually leave the nzaa and create their own little universe.

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

Say hello to the P3. Do the Pac12 or Big 12 count as power conferences anymore?

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Oregon and Washington would really clean out pac 0

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Say hello to the P3. Do the Pac12 or Big 12 count as power conferences anymore?

So...would pac 0 and big 12 just combine?

 

[TerryP]

Big 12 count as power conferences anymore?

Based on their new commish it looks like the Big12 is going the Big East route: they see their future in basketball.

 

[XXL TideFan]

ACC needs two teams ASAP. If Clemson continues as last year they absolutely need news.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Power play by Big 10. What are the ACC’s options to keep up? Big 12 raid?

 

[UAgrad93]

ACC needs Notre Dame to survive this IMHO @It Takes Eleven . If they don't get them, Big 10 will and then the SEC likely swoops in and grabs Clemson, F$U, Miami, and maybe UNC to form a 20 team MEGA conference.

 

[rick4bama]

Could some of the G-5 teams join up?

 

[OldPlayer]

ACC needs Notre Dame to survive this IMHO @It Takes Eleven . If they don't get them, Big 10 will and then the SEC likely swoops in and grabs Clemson, F$U, Miami, and maybe UNC to form a 20 team MEGA conference.

ND’s agreement with the ACC mandates that if football joins a conference, it must be the ACC. It’s just a matter of time.

 

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[TerryP]

Has anyone checked on Lincoln Riley? He's still managed to avoid the SEC grind leaving me wondering if he knew he'd be stepping into the B1G's drama.

I wonder what brought Byrne to mind?

 

[TerryP]

Quick road trips for those guys.

 

[TerryP]

The SEC having a playoff finding the best team out of 22-25 teams. The B1G doing the same. There's your new title game.

For years some of us have begged for the P5 schools to separate and govern themselves. The unintended consequence being college football is now shaped after the NFL model.

Now people on the national stage are seeing the same thing. Herbie commented on the move yesterday:

“And honestly, I think that’s our future. I haven’t spoken with anybody, but I think that’s where this thing, when the dust settles, that’s where we’re going to be. With about 50-55 teams, half of them in the Big Ten, half of them in the SEC. If we’re simplifying it, think AFC, NFC in the NFL. Saturdays, you’re going to have three divisions: West, Middle and East or South, and that’s what it’s going to be. I think there’s going to be some very tough decisions because [it’s] going to keep out a lot of teams that want to be a part of this future and they’re not going to be invited. So it’s going to be more of the haves or the have nots in college athletics.”

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Has anyone checked on Lincoln Riley? He's still managed to avoid the SEC grind leaving me wondering if he knew he'd be stepping into the B1G's drama.

I wonder what brought Byrne to mind?

I think that it's probably that the PAC had a chance to secure a place in an expanded playoff and, after saying they were open to it, they voted against it to spite the SEC. They no longer have that leverage and will not get an automatic in whatever a future playoff looks like.

Does the new conference championship game language allow for semifinal games or "more than one game to determine a conference champion"? That would ensure mega conferences.

RTR,

Tim

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

Football on the left coast was done before this move. They just haven't buried it yet.

 

[BamaFan334]

Has anyone checked on Lincoln Riley? He's still managed to avoid the SEC grind leaving me wondering if he knew he'd be stepping into the B1G's drama.

I wonder what brought Byrne to mind?

Ha ha, I have been thinking this exact point about Riley. Ole boy dodged the SEC, but now is forced into some semblance of football competition he isn't ready for. Thought he was gonna live the easy life recruiting against Cal, Stanford, Washington, Colorado, and Arizona all while beating up on those teams and looking good. Now he's gonna be dealing with Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Penn State, as well as hard hat teams like Michigan State, Northwestern, and Iowa.

Think them boys used to LA weather wanna play in 30 degree games in Ann Arbor with snow?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

<sinippage> hard hat teams like Michigan State, Northwestern, and Iowa.

I saw Iowa just got a commit to keep an in-state 5 star OL, beating us out - for now.

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

ND’s agreement with the ACC mandates that if football joins a conference, it must be the ACC. It’s just a matter of time.

This runs through 2036 so that would appear to do it for the time being. Then again, ND isn't going to join a conference as long as they have any ability to get into the playoffs without doing so.