USC And the University of California In advanced talks to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten as early as 2024, the athleteNicole Auerbach confirmed. The top 10 chiefs and athletic directors held a meeting last night on the subject, and an announcement could come as early as today, as schools are expected to submit official paperwork on Thursday, according to a source. Pac-12 reporter John Wellner first reported The two schools were planning to leave as early as 2024 but the move “has not been finalized at the highest levels of authority”.
Multiple sources said the athleteBruce Feldman said it was the two Pac-12 schools who reached out to the Big Ten about the move.
The Big Ten is currently in negotiations for the next media rights deal. Her current deals with ESPN and Fox continue through the next academic year, 2022-23. The current membership of the Pac-12 has been together since 2011, when Colorado And the Utah Join the league from the Big 12 and Mountain West respectively. Prior to that, recent changes to membership were to add Arizona and Arizona in 1978.
If these moves happen, it will mark the second summer in a row that the sudden reorganization of the football blue ball has triggered a seismic change in the college sports landscape. last July, Texas And the OklahomaTheir announcement that they will join the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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