The college football world was pushed into chaos again a little over a week ago when — seemingly out of the blue — news broke that USC and UCLA were all set to join the Big Ten beginning in 2024.
It was a further springboard of change that we’ve seen in the landscape of college football after the news of Texas and Oklahoma joining the SEC last year. Add that to the transfer portal, Name, Image, and Likeness, and talks about expanding the College Football Playoff, and there’s no doubt we’re in a period where we are experiencing a complete remake of the CFB model.
But is it done? Reports have surfaced that the SEC will be staying put at 16 teams right now, and it has gotten a bit quiet since the Big Ten bombshell. But it was also pretty silent before the news of Big Ten expansion made a sonic boom.
And in a world where it seems the Big Ten and SEC are trading blows to become the king of college football revenue, one has to wonder when another aftershock occurs. So, if the Big Ten isn’t done, what other schools might be candidates for being added to the conference that now spans from sea to shining sea?
We break down and rank ten teams and their likelihood of joining the Big Ten if things continue to move towards superconferences. We are only focusing on teams that are AAU members since that seems to be a considerable prerequisite for culture and academics (that somehow seems to matter in all of this).
