New Ohio State President Ted Carter Views Big Ten Expansion As “Really Exciting,” Says He’ll Work with Gene Smith to Identify New Athletic Director

Ohio State’s new president foreshadowed the latest round of Big Ten expansion months before it happened.

In an interview with Tom Shatel of the Omaha World-Herald in May, Ted Carter predicted that “over the next year, there’s going to be a lot of big changes that are going to happen.” Specifically, Carter forecasted “two teams that move from one of the Power Five conferences that cause things to unravel,” specifically noting the possibility of teams leaving the ACC or Pac-12 and creating “a domino effect.”

That domino effect happened over the course of less than two weeks in July and August, when Colorado’s move from the Pac-12 to the Big 12 sparked a mass exodus from the Pac-12 that led Oregon and Washington to the Big Ten and Arizona, Arizona State and Utah to also join the Big 12.