USC, UCLA to join Big Ten in 2024

Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty ImagesHonestly, I am just as shocked as you are reading that headline.

Texas and OU moving to the SEC in a few years has sent the cascading snowball of conference realignment into motion. Every offseason, countless Reddit threads, Twitter feeds, and comment board conversations endlessly talk about the ways conferences can be realigned. Oklahoma State and Iowa State to the Big Ten. Texas Tech and BYU to the Pac-12, sending Vanderbilt to the Sun Belt were all some crazy ideas thrown about.

The Big Ten announced today that the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles will become conference members effective August 2, 2024,…