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Report: USC And UCLA Joining Big 10 In 2024

Another realignment bombshell dropped this afternoon.

Stephen Thompson

Report: USC And UCLA Joining Big 10 In 2024
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PITTSBURGH -- Less than a decade removed from the last round of conference realignment that decimated the Big 12 and Big East and sent the Pitt Panthers scrambling for the welcome arms of the ACC, another major shake-up to the landscape of college sports is imminent. 

Just as the Panthers ditched the declining football prowess of the Big East for the more lucrative money available in the Power Five ACC, USC and UCLA are ditching the Pac 12 for the richer and more powerful Big 10, according to a report from Jon Wilner of Pac 12 Hotline. The move has not yet been finalized but is expected to happen as soon as 2024.

This moves come on the heels of Texas and Oklahoma's announcement that they will move to the SEC in 2025. As a result, the Big 12 and Pac 12 appear to primed for self-destruction, with two of their most prominent football-playing schools set to depart. 

This is almost certainly not the only move that will be made by the biggest football-playing schools in America. The Pac-12 and Big 12 have beed decimated and the remaining schools that sit below the blue bloods and national powers will be left to find new, sustainable homes.

The future of college athletics, particularly football, has never been more uncertain. 

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Stephen Thompson
STEPHEN THOMPSON

Stephen Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and political science from Pitt in April 2022 after spending four years as a sports writer and editor at The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh's independent, student-run newspaper.  He primarily worked the Pitt men's basketball beat, and filled in on coverage of football, volleyball, softball, gymnastics and lacrosse, in addition to other sports as needed. His work at The Pitt News has won awards from the Pennsylvania News Media Association and Associated College Press.  During the spring and summer of 2021, Stephen interned for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covering baseball in western Pennsylvania. Hailing from Washington D.C., family ties have cultivated a love of Boston's professional teams and Pitt athletics, and a fascination with sports in general.  You can reach Stephen by email at stephenethompson00@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his latest work:

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