USC, UCLA 'can carry some weight' in Big Ten, Ohio State AD says

Published:Mar 8, 202419:57
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USC, UCLA 'can carry some weight' in Big Ten, Ohio State AD says

The 2 largest school sports activities manufacturers on the West Coast — USC and UCLA — are formally leaving the Pac-12 for the Huge Ten in 2024, the newest bombshell transfer to shake up the faculty soccer panorama.

Ohio State Athletic Director Gene Smith did not shrink back from the chance to share specifics on how he thought the transfer would assist the Buckeyes, saying that Ohio State may use some assist "carrying" the convention. 

"For Ohio State, it frankly gives two different colleges that may carry some weight," Smith said. "On the finish of the day, Ohio State has been this system for the Huge Ten through the years that has been on the prime of the pyramid and has carried a major quantity of weight and worth within the Huge Ten.

"Now, now we have two others who can contribute to that weight. I’m actually enthusiastic about that. … That’s no disparagement to any college. It’s simply actuality."

Ohio State is the one program within the Huge Ten to win a Faculty Soccer Playoff sport, together with the primary CFP nationwide championship sport in 2014. Ohio State is 93–11 since then, whereas USC is 70–41 and UCLA is 46–48 throughout that very same time interval — although neither California-based program has made a CFP look.

What does the Huge Ten enlargement imply for the colleges, the conferences and the Faculty Soccer Playoff? Some assume school soccer is headed towards a professional mannequin with two mega-conferences.

Regardless, it's a main blow for the Pac-12 Convention, which hasn't despatched a workforce to the Faculty Soccer Playoff because the 2016 Washington Huskies and has battled for relevancy in a Energy 5 panorama dominated by the SEC and Huge Ten. The transfer additionally comes virtually a 12 months after Huge 12 powers Texas and Oklahoma formally accepted invites to hitch the SEC in 2025.


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