On Thursday evening, the Big Ten presidents and chancellors met and unanimously voted to have the University of Southern California and University of California, Los Angeles join the conference on August 2, 2024 to begin competition for all conference sports in the 2024-25 academic year. That is an absolutely wild sentence to type.
“As the oldest NCAA Division I athletic conference in the United States and with a footprint that will now extend from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Big Ten membership offers Bruins exciting new competitive opportunities and a broader national media platform for our student-athletes to compete and showcase their talents.