@Tschmack posted:I love how some of the talking heads just assume that U$C will step right in and challenge Ohio $tate for supremacy in football. How’d that work out for Nebraska and Penn State?
The Trojans certainly have tradition, but Oregon and Washington have been more relevant in football in the last 30 years than SC.
UCLA hasn’t been relevant for decades now in football.
But the Big Ten loves So Cal and it’s a huge media market.
Pete Carroll was at USC from 2001-2009 and went 109-19 and won two National titles. They ended the season #3 in the country as recently as 2016. They'll be relevant.
You are right about wanting Oregon in your conference as well. There is a LOT of Nike money tied up in that program.
I think you try to snap up Oregon, Stanford, Washington, and Cal to go with USC and UCLA. That gets you to 20 schools with 9 conference game in each side of the bracket. Of course, the remaining big fish are Notre Dame, Clemson, Miami, North Carolina, and Duke (the later two for basketball alone).