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USC, UCLA in negotiations to join Big Ten as soon as 2024

The Big Ten may soon stretch from coast-to-coast.

Sources confirm to the Free Press that the USC and UCLA are in talks with the Big Ten to join the league as soon as 2024.

This comes one year after Texas and Oklahoma announced they would be leaving the Big 12 for the SEC in 2025.

The acquisition would be one of the largest dominoes to fall in the changing college football landscape as the Power Five conferences — Big Ten, Big-12, SEC, ACC and Pac-12 — appear to be heading toward two super-conferences.

The Big Ten, which currently has 14 schools, last expanded in 2014 when it added Rutgers and Maryland.