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Oregon and Washington join Big Ten and Pac-12 is in peril. What happens next?

LOS ANGELES — Turns out, USC and UCLA will have Pac-12 brethren joining them in the Big Ten after all. Oregon and Washington announced Friday afternoon that they are also headed to the Big Ten, bringing the conference to 18 schools for the 2024-25 academic year. Yahoo Sports reported Friday morning that Oregon and Washington officials told the Pac-12 of the impending move in a meeting, which ...
The mascots of the Oregon Ducks and the Washington Huskies interact on the sidelines during a game at Autzen Stadium on Nov. 12, 2022, in Eugene, Oregon.

LOS ANGELES — Turns out, USC and UCLA will have Pac-12 brethren joining them in the Big Ten after all.

Oregon and Washington announced Friday afternoon that they are also headed to the Big Ten, bringing the conference to 18 schools for the 2024-25 academic year.

Yahoo Sports reported Friday morning that Oregon and Washington officials told the Pac-12 of the impending move in a meeting, which was supposed to be commissioner George Kliavkoff's last chance to convince his members to stay together after the exits of USC and UCLA last summer and Colorado last week.

Kliavkoff reportedly presented his schools with the details of a potential media rights agreement with Apple on Tuesday. The deal would put the Pac-12 games mostly on streaming and offer minimal linear cable and broadcast options. For the Western schools that have already struggled with exposure over the last decade, that idea apparently did not sit well.

Oregon and Washington are expected to

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