USC/UCLA leaving Pac12 for Big10?

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I will add this here as well.

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It's happening. The announcement is only a formality.

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I wonder where ORE goes? Cristobal brought them back into national spotlight before bolting. I doubt the PAC-12 dissolves and remainder of teams get absorbed into Mountain West.
 

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The geography based conference model is officially no more after this. I'd guess the only way for Pac 12/Big 12 to stay relevant would be to merge and pick the biggest schools for a top tier conference (even that is debatable with what's left) while a second conference would be a mid-major level. I mean, a conference like this would still at least have an argument to be the 4th in a "Big 4" while keeping some geographic rivalries and having enough fire power in both college football & basketball.

Division 1:
Washington & Washington State
Oregon & Oregon State
Stanford & Cal
Arizona & Arizona State

Division 2:
Kansas & Kansas State
Texas Tech & Oklahoma State (picked OSU over TCU)
Baylor & Houston (could sub TCU here)
Cincinnati & West Virginia
 

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Mega conferences here we come.

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I joked about this to my friends about 20 years ago when conference realignments first began, that eventually college football would be comprised of just two conferences - the Big 60 and the Pac 40.

At least I thought I was joking at the time.
 
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Big 12 huh? With no Oklahoma or Texas.

Barely better than MWC, but I am not totally sure.

Future ASU Coach to future ASU recruit: "Great competition in our conference. You will get to play on the big stages of Stillwater, Waco and Lubbock."
 

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I'm assuming Oregon and Washington try to get into the BIG10. Nike U and Seattle seems like they would be appealing to them, plus it gives some travel partners.

That leaves 8 schools. Joining the BIG 12 to make 20 makes the most sense. BYU naturally moves to the West conference with maybe TT (sucks for them) Having a CA footprint would be appealing to BIG 12.

I could also see just the four corner schools going BIG 12.
 

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Notre Dame has an open invitation to the Big 10 and if they accept, it’ll make things interesting.

Every school in the Pac-12 needs to be looking for new homes immediately

This is all Larry Scott’s fault. **** Larry Scott
To where?

Is the Big 12 better than the remaining 10 teams?

I don’t think so.

Grab San Diego St. Try to get 1-3 of the Big 12 members
 

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To where?

Is the Big 12 better than the remaining 10 teams?

I don’t think so.

Grab San Diego St. Try to get 1-3 of the Big 12 members
Oregon and Washington are likely Big 10 bound.
 

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