UCLA and Southern California will leave the the Pac-12 for the Big Ten Conference in 2024 in a seismic change that could lead to another major realignment of college sports.
Both schools announced the move Thursday night.
The Big Ten's chancellors and presidents were meeting at 6 p.m. to approve the move, a source confirmed to The Detroit News. The source called the vote a "formality."
The move would come in 2024, after the Pac-12’s current media rights contracts with Fox and ESPN expire, and increase the size of the Big Ten to 16 schools.
The decision by the Los Angeles schools — two of the NCAA’s most decorated athletic programs — comes almost a year after Oklahoma and Texas formally accepted invitations to join the Southeastern Conference in July 2025.