College Football’s Super Conferences Are Forming, Setting Themselves Far Apart From The Rest

Effective the 2024 college football season, the Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC will combine for 50 schools in 30 states and four time zones. The number of schools could grow depending on what happens with four Pac-12 institutions left standing (Wobbling?) following a mass exodus from the conference. Schools from other conferences could also be invited to come on board.

The Big Ten, which reached its current 14-team structure with the addition of Maryland and Rutgers in 2014, will add four schools next year: Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington. An 18-member conference stretching from New Brunswick, N.J. to Seattle – it’s a little more than a 2,400-mile flight from Newark Liberty International to Seattle-Tacoma International – would be the nation’s largest. For now.