The Ohio State football program will get two new teams to face in the Big Ten starting next season when USC and UCLA join the conference. It’s still taking me a while to get over the weirdness that two schools from California are now in a conference that started out as Midwest-based, but whatever.
Once those two schools do arrive in 2024, things will get tougher for the current teams in the Big Ten. The question is, how much tougher will they get? How good are USC and UCLA as football programs right now and where will they fall on the hierarchy of Big Ten teams?