Pac 12 in its final days after USC, UCLA bolt?
College expansion is back in the news with the news Southern Cal and UCLA are set to join the Big 10 in 2024. This movie puts every geography buff into a hissy fit with two teams from LA joining a conference comprised almost exclusively with teams from the Great Lakes and RustBelt region of the United States. In the following days, the quartet of Arizona, Arizona State, Utah and Colorado were in preliminary talks to join the Big 12. Set aside the comedy of Colorado crawling back to the Big 12 after leaving a little over a decade ago, these moves could signal the Pac 12 going the way of the Southwest or Big East conferences. If these moves all go through, the Pac 12 would be down to the Pac 6 with Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State, Cal and Stanford, and virtually dead in the water. But I postulate a different future than those 6 remaining schools joining a different conference. Let's get this first major domino out of the way - Hawaii is not an option. They inste