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Everything you need to know about UCLA and USC joining the Big Ten

Head coach Chip Kelly of the UCLA Bruins argues a call receiving an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty during the first quarter against the USC Trojans at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on November 20, 2021, in Los Angeles, California.

A Southern California native and veteran of several Big Ten winters, Myles Johnson knows the first words likely uttered by former Pac-12 athletes once their new conference smacks them like a midwinter Lake Michigan breeze.

"Help! Help!"

Johnson, the onetime Rutgers center who spent his final college basketball season at UCLA as a graduate transfer, recently retweeted a meme showing a man in a burly winter coat standing in a subway door pleading for help.

The caption: "UCLA players when they get off the plane in Minnesota in December."

Yes, it's going to be brutally cold. It's also going to be jarring

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