5 Thoughts on USC and UCLA’s move to the Big Ten

Final Thoughts

All in all, this is good news for the future of the Big Ten, as it gets a lot stronger. Eat, or be eaten. It’s that simple. More programs will follow, as the Big Ten is trying to poach Notre Dame, and Washington and Oregon are on stand-by to the Big Ten, waiting for Notre Dame to accept or decline their invite, so more programs will assuredly join at some point.

I’ve been hearing that the Big Ten wants to get 20-teams into the Big Ten, so right now, 16 teams are a part of the Big Ten, with the addition of USC and UCLA.

If you add Notre Dame, Oregon, and Washington, that is 19 teams, and one more can still be added, like Stanford, or Cal, or even an ACC school like Pittsburgh, Virginia, etc, and/or North Carolina and Duke. 20 teams might be the limit for now, but I could see the Big Ten going as high as 22-24 schools in the conference down the line.

Missouri has wanted to join the Big Ten since 2011 (as it was either them or Nebraska in conference expansion) so that might be an option as well (albeit, Missouri is definitely low on the totem pole of schools the Big Ten could add).

It is survival of the fittest and a new era of college football (the super-conference era) has been born, and we’ll have to see how this works out. The Big Ten has some things to figure out in terms of logistics, travel, scheduling, dividing the pay, etc.

I’m just glad the Big Ten is the aggressor and won’t meet the unfortunate end like the PAC-12. If it means adding some more teams into the conference, so be it, but the Big Ten still has all its members (and it wouldn’t make sense for any to leave with the money aspect, unless they get kicked out, like Rutgers, or Nebraska) so, it’s good to see the Big Ten still intact.

I didn’t mention it last article but welcome to the Big Ten, USC, and UCLA.