BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Big Ten now stretches from ocean to ocean. It has torn the heart out of its old bedfellow, the Pac-12, and knocked down the last remaining obstacles to the dramatic remaking of college athletics as we recognize them today.
So, what’s next?
That’s a question with many answers, few of them straightforward. The whirlwind arrival of USC and UCLA into the conference Thursday felt more like a beginning than an end, so there is much we cannot know about what the coming months and years will bring.