At this rate, it appears there’s just going to be two super conferences in college sports.
Teams continue to shuffle and move their way into bigger conferences for a bigger slice of the pie, and it seems that’s going to happen with the two biggest names in the Pac-12.
According to Jon Wilner, the preeminent Pac-12 news breaker, both USC and UCLA plan to leave the Pac-12 for the Big 10 as soon as 2024.
He makes a distinction, though, that the move hasn’t been finalized “at the highest levels of power.”
It looks like the Pac-10 is back, folks. Not that anyone asked for it to return.
It’s a testament to the gross mismanagement of the conference. In 2010, there were talks over a potential massive move of Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Colorado to join the conference. Instead, those first five remained with the Big-12 and the Pac-10 became the Pac-12 with the addition of Colorado and Utah. Both Texas and Oklahoma will join the SEC by 2025.
It’s a real mess of big schools joining up with bigger schools and the Pac-12 appears like it’s being left in the dust.