Source: USC, UCLA considering move from Pac-12 to Big Ten

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24. It would be more like an official merger...

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... of the Big Ten and Pac-10 schools (with a few obvious changes), which perhaps more people should've predicted since those two conferences have been joined at the hip via the Rose Bowl for decades. And both conferences had the most AAU member schools too.

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I think such divisions would help retain more of the college football fan base, which they might lose if the Big Ten focuses too much on expanding their "TV market" over a broader geographical area. A wider geographical viewing area doesn't matter as much as retaining or increasing actual viewers.
And they can keep the Rose Bowl this way too, as a conference title game, which was already getting lower-quality teams invited to that game because the CFP was taking their higher-ranked conference teams.