USC and UCLA are in talks to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten as early as 2024, confirmed Nicole Auerbach of The Athletic. Big Ten presidents and athletic directors held a meeting last night on the subject. Pac-12 reporter John Wilner first announced that the two schools plan to leave as early as 2024, but that the move “has not been finalized at the highest levels of government.”
Numerous sources have told Bruce Feldman of The Athletic that the two Pac-12 schools are the ones turning to the Big Ten for a move.
The Big Ten are currently negotiating their next media rights deal. His existing deals with ESPN and Fox are being implemented in the next academic year, 2022-23. The current members of Pac-12 have been together since 2011, when Colorado and Utah joined the league from the Big 12 and the Mountain West, respectively. Prior to that, the last changes in membership were the addition of Arizona and the state of Arizona in 1978.
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