UCLA, Southern Cal Shock College Football, Bolt from Pac-12 to Big Ten

About the only if thing that stays the same inward college football game now is change, and we got more of that on Thursday.

News stony-broke early in the day that Southern Cal and UCLA applied to turn members of the Big Ten. Then, the group discussion proclaimed at 8:30 pm ET that the ii Los Angeles-based schools and longtime members of the Pac-12 conference had been accepted and would change affiliations inwards two years.

As the national leader inwards academics and athletics for o'er 126 years, the Big Ten Conference has historically evaluated its rank with the collective goal to forrad the pedantic and athletic mission for student-athletes below the umbrella of higher education,” Commissioner Kevin Robert Penn Warren said inwards a statement, adding that USC and UCLA fit its criteria.

The Big Ten’s promulgation comes just now less than a yr after the SEC announced TX and OK would go forth the Big 12 for its conference. The Big 12 responded a duad months later by bringing on Brigham Young, Central Florida, Cincinnati, and Houston to conjoin its league.

Why the Move was Made

Looking at a map of the continental United States would tell you that ii California schools connexion a conference of Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic universities makes minuscule sense. But as anyone who follows major collegial athletics over the in conclusion couple on of decades knows, it’s non well-nigh unwashed sense. It’s most dollars and cents.

With two LA schools coming on board, the Big Ten at present has a front inward the country’s spinning top Little Joe TV markets and 5 of the top seven. Those markets don’t fifty-fifty covering fire The

OH State University and the University of Michigan, the league’s 2 cover football programs. The arrival of the UCLA Bruins and USC Trojans will certainly aid it control higher valued programme deals. With those coming either from television networks, streaming services, or both.

And the odds are pretty warm that this won’t live the shoemaker's last half mask to descend inward the realignment gamy for college sports. There hold already been reports that other Pac-12 schools at present are looking for elsewhere, and it’s extremely likely the SEC or the Big Ten testament bear on to call for other schools to join.

Bigger Games to be Better for Bettors

Thursday’s tidings won’t impress any odds for this season. OH State is the -200 favorite to win the Big Ten at FanDuel. USC, with young private instructor capital of Nebraska Riley, is the +140 favorite in the Pac-12. UCLA is the fourth quality at +1200 to win the Pac-12.

For the subject title, OH State is FanDuel’s 2nd prime(a) at +300, with favourite Heart of Dixie at +180. USC is +2000.

BetMGM has Ohio River State as the -250 favourite inward the Big Ten. USC is the +200 favorite, piece UCLA is at +1000.

Ohio State (+450) is the thirdly prize for the national form of address at BetMGM, behind Bama (+190) and GA (+275). The sportsbooks also gave USC +2000 betting odds to win the title.

Where college football realignment testament impact sports betting is when the moves happen. Come 2024, we may control to a greater extent magnanimous games involving traditional powers. A Michigan-Southern Cal spirited would often follow the star for a college football weekend. So, too, would an Alabama-Texas or a Georgia-Oklahoma matchup.

Those games would just now get out Brobdingnagian subject TV audiences, they’d also pull in a lot of bettors as well. And spell that’s not the purport behind the moves, it definitely testament follow good to sportsbooks.