{"id":20535,"date":"2023-08-05T09:40:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20535"},"modified":"2023-08-05T09:41:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:41:17","slug":"the-big-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/the-big-18\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Not even two months since the Big Ten announced their \u201cFlex Protect Plus<\/a>\u201d model, which incorporated UCLA and USC into the football schedule for 2024 and beyond, it’s time to go back to the drawing board.\u00a0 The conference grew again yesterday when Oregon and Washington, formerly of the PAC-12, would join the conference starting with the fall 2024 semester.\u00a0 The move further extends the reach of the Big Ten on the West Coast.
\n\"\"<\/a>On the field, the move gives the Big Ten additional content to sell to their media rights providers and an additional footprint in the west to help cut down on the travel requirements for student athletes.\u00a0 Off the field, the Big Ten Network will get the opportunity to expand into multiple markets in the Pacific Northwest.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the PAC-12, who also lost Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah to the Big 12 this week, looks to be on the verge of collapse, with only four schools remaining as of now for the 2024-2025 school year.<\/p>\n

With the 2023 college football season about to start in about a month, the schedule-makers will need to revamp their approach to account for the new schools.\u00a0 Do they simply add Oregon and Washington into the mix?\u00a0 Split the 18 schools into three divisions of six teams each?\u00a0 Two divisions of nine?\u00a0 I imagine we will find out sooner rather than later while waiting for the next pair of dominos to drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not even two months since the Big Ten announced their \u201cFlex Protect Plus\u201d model, which incorporated UCLA and USC into the football schedule for 2024 and beyond, it’s time to go back to the drawing board.\u00a0 The conference grew again yesterday when Oregon and Washington, formerly of the PAC-12, would join the conference starting with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568,511,63],"tags":[3313,4616,10742,2698,2406,2103,3304,10119,3317,6577,5536,8390],"class_list":["post-20535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-football","category-television","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-state","tag-big-12","tag-big-ten","tag-btn","tag-colorado","tag-oregon","tag-pac-12","tag-ucla","tag-usc","tag-utah","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20538,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535\/revisions\/20538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}