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

[Buckeye_Democrat]

15. Well, the Big Ten logo makes mores sense now...

... since it resembled "B16", as if to represent 16 teams.



The Big Ten reps voted unanimously to invite USC and UCLA to join their conference in 2024, so it's apparently a done deal.

Both USC and UCLA are AAU members, as top schools in scientific research, so the Big Ten has maintained their desire to only allow AAU members to join their conference. (Nebraska is the only exception, but that school WAS an AAU member when it was invited to join the Big Ten.)

AAU schools:
https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members

The remaining AAU members from the PAC-12 are Stanford, Cal, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. But since MONEY is probably the biggest factor, I doubt that most of those schools will get invitations.