UNC faces dilemma as another round of conference realignment begins, amid ACC uncertainty The number is six. Tribune News Service · Jul 8, 2022
Luke DeCock: As Big Ten, SEC consolidate their power, the ACC finds itself under existential threat RALEIGH, N.C. — When Oklahoma and Texas announced their intention to jump to the SEC last summer, it felt like distant thunder on the horizon in ACC country. Concerning, maybe even menacing, but not imminently threatening. Tribune News Service · Jul 7, 2022
Larry Stone: The Pac-12 will never be the same again, and that's sad SEATTLE — I have a six-decade relationship with the Pac-12 — old enough that I lived through its incarnations as the Pac-8 and Pac-10. My affiliation spans from John McKay to Lincoln Riley, from Lew Alcindor to Johnny Juzang, from Ann Meyers to Anna Wilson. Tribune News Service · Jul 7, 2022
Sources: ACC, Pac-12 Discussing ESPN TV Partnership The proposal between the leagues comes after the Big Ten’s addition of USC and UCLA. Sports Illustrated · Jul 6, 2022
Pac-12 survival guide: Merger options include the obvious (Big 12) and the not-so-obvious As the Pac-12 fights for survival in the wake of USC and UCLA announcing their joint departure for the Big Ten in 2024, merger, acquisition and going-out-of-business talk is all the rage. Tribune News Service · Jul 6, 2022
Mike Vorel: Where will Washington land? Here are all of the Huskies’ conference realignment options. SEATTLE — Notre Dame is the most valuable free agent commodity in college football. Tribune News Service · Jul 6, 2022
Debt-laden UCLA was on a grim trajectory to cut sports until it moved to the Big Ten LOS ANGELES — It was a splashy move with a quiet beneficiary. Los Angeles Times · Jul 5, 2022
UCLA Was in ‘Significant Debt’ Before Big Ten Move, AD Says The school will earn more money each year from its new conference to help fund athletics at the school. Sports Illustrated · Jul 5, 2022
Pac-12 Releases Statement on Media Rights Amid Realignment The league continues to adapt its strategy following the consequential departures of USC and UCLA for the Big Ten. Sports Illustrated · Jul 5, 2022
Reports: Big Ten, Big 12 Draw Interest From Pac-12 Schools What will the next big conference realignment move have in store? Sports Illustrated · Jul 5, 2022
Everything you need to know about UCLA and USC joining the Big Ten A Southern California native and veteran of several Big Ten winters, Myles Johnson knows the first words likely uttered by former Pac-12 athletes once their new conference smacks them like a midwinter Lake Michigan breeze. Los Angeles Times · Jul 5, 2022
REPORT: Big Ten’s ‘wish list’ for conference expansion includes ND, Oregon, Stanford, UNC The Big Ten reportedly has its eyes set on four additional teams for expansion USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 5, 2022
Notre Dame Will Play the Realignment Waiting Game—Because It Can The school has long had academic prestige, football and financial success and the autonomy of FBS independence, but will college sports’ instability affect that? Sports Illustrated · Jul 4, 2022
Paul Sullivan: As the era of 2 college super-conferences draws near, Notre Dame’s future appears up for grabs Thursday’s news of USC and UCLA joining the Big Ten Conference as early as 2024 stunned the college sports world. Chicago Tribune · Jul 4, 2022
USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 4, 2022 Is San Diego State A Prime Candidate For The Pac-12? Is San Diego State A Prime Candidate For The Pac-12? Will the Pac-12 look at San Diego State Contact/Follow @JeremyMauss & @MWCwire Could Aztecs join the Pac-12? The Pac-12 is in a big pickle with UCLA and USC heading to the Big Ten and now the ...
Los Angeles Times · Jul 3, 2022 How much money waits for UCLA and USC in the Big Ten Conference? It's about name, image and likeness, they said. It's about like-minded academic institutions. It's about growing opportunities to recruit.
USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 3, 2022 Mountain West Should Not Be Too Worried About Losing Members Mountain West Should Not Be Worried About Losing Members Will a Mountain West team bolt? Contact/Follow @JeremyMauss & @MWCwire What can the league do? College athletics is just crazy right now with every league not named the Big Ten caught off ...
Tribune News Service · Jul 3, 2022 Chip Scoggins: Big Ten bursting coast to coast ends 'Power Five' era MINNEAPOLIS — The commissioners for the Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC appeared together at a virtual news conference last August to express unity and a spirit of collaboration in announcing a new "Alliance" partnership in the wake of jarring news that Texas and Oklahoma were bolting to the SEC.
Tribune News Service · Jul 3, 2022 Sideline Chatter: Watching Washington play USC in the Rose Bowl will be fun USC and UCLA? They went Piscataway — er, thataway, off for greener pa$ture$ in the Big Ten.
Los Angeles Times · Jul 3, 2022 Breaking down what a move to the Big Ten means for UCLA and USC Olympic sports LOS ANGELES — The Big Ten Conference needs a bigger trophy case.
Tribune News Service · Jul 3, 2022 Nick Canepa: USC and UCLA jumping from sinking Pac-12 ship no real big surprise SAN DIEGO — During the souped-up muscle car race on the Modern Collegiate Athletics Speedway, the Pac-12 had lost horsepower and got itself lapped.
Los Angeles Times · Jul 2, 2022 USC athletic director Mike Bohn has a history of punching first in realignment fights LOS ANGELES — It was perhaps the most uncertain stretch in the history of college athletics. Chaos reigned amid rumors of realignment. A blue-blood program was threatening to abandon its conference over TV money. Another conference commissioner was openly courting that blue blood with the intent of building a super…
Tribune News Service · Jul 2, 2022 Mac Engel: TCU, Texas Tech and Baylor’s future as Power 5 schools depends on ESPN, Fox and Big Ten FORT WORTH, Texas — Not long after UCLA and USC announced their intentions to join the Big Ten, Pac-12 officials immediately began to quietly gauge the interest of others schools if they were interested in heading west to join that league.
Tribune News Service · Jul 2, 2022 Patrick Reusse: The Big Ten as I have known it is dead and buried MINNEAPOLIS — Disagreements with my poignant thoughts offered either for the Star Tribune or the wacky outlet that is Twitter often lead to this dismissive retort:
USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 2, 2022 Pac-12 Is Exploring Options In Expanding Its League Pac-12 Is Exploring Options In Expanding Its League How does impact the Mountain West? Contact/Follow @JeremyMauss & @MWCwire Send in those resumes The Pac-12 is in trouble and they know it. They lost USC and UCLA as they were blindsided by this ...