USC and UCLA are leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten
USC and UCLA are leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten, a shift that will move college football's 'Power Five' closer to a 'Power Two.'
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WOW is right !!
MarkRedman
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Several years ago, many "pundits" predicted that, eventually, there would be 4 mega football conferences with 16 teams in each one. It certainly looks like we are slowly heading in that direction. The Big 12 is much weaker without Texas and Oklahoma and the Pac 12 won't be the same without UCLA and USC.
The ACC is in trouble as well. They have a long term TV contract that pays each member school a pittance compared to what the Big Ten and SEC schools are getting. I wouldn't be surprised to see efforts made to poach some of the ACC schools in the near future.
The ACC is in trouble as well. They have a long term TV contract that pays each member school a pittance compared to what the Big Ten and SEC schools are getting. I wouldn't be surprised to see efforts made to poach some of the ACC schools in the near future.
Wonder where Notre Dame ends up? They may no longer be able to be a football independent.
Where does it go next? It'll go to a full break from the NCAA, including a post-season tournament of its own. Goodbye Final Four as we know it, and recruiting will be impacted as well, including ours.
I guess the Rose Bowl game will the Big 10 Championship game. 
As for ND--they would be a better fit in the Big 10 as they annually play USC and would get back to rivalries with Mich and Mich State
As for ND--they would be a better fit in the Big 10 as they annually play USC and would get back to rivalries with Mich and Mich State
CBS and Turner Sports have agreed to an eight-year media rights extension to continue broadcasting the NCAA men's basketball tournament through 2032, it was announced Tuesday. The networks' original deal with the NCAA, which was signed in 2010, was set to expire in 2024.
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CBS, Turner, Extend NCAA Deal Through '32; No Changes to Final Four
That’s pretty much what I said.
MarkRedman
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You're right, but guessing is fun. I'm guessing that the SEC and Big Ten will pick off some more teams from the other power conferences and will end up with 16 (or so) teams each. The remaining teams from the Pac 12, Big 12 and the ACC that aren't absorbed by the SEC and Big Ten will somehow form two more "super" conferences. My guess is that we will eventually end up with four big time football conferences with approximately 16 teams in each one.
I'm aware of contractual agreements. Thought they were in effect for another five or six year, not ten. Even so, ten years goes by very quickly, and in the meantime, the landscape of college basketball (and all other sports as well) will be irreversably changing, and probably not for the better.
Maybe so, but the Super 5 are hoping to make every otther conference irrelevant, including ours.
Football and basketball will start to work independently of each other. SJU will be fine in the short AND long run.
Heard through the grapevine that Kansas is exploring the possibility of joining BE, basketball wise, and having their football be an independent.
Lots goings on.
That rumor has been out for awhile but has not been substantiated. That being said, who heard about USC and UCLA possibly bolting to the Big Ten before it actually happened. I don't know who contacted who first (the Big 10 or one of the schools) but the two schools had to be working together on this and still managed to keep it quiet until it was a done deal.