The SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS offers a "Pac-12 survival guide" in light of USC and UCLA departing for the Big Ten in 2024. In coming days, weeks and months, the Pac-12 will "plot a course to salvation … or go the way of the dodo." A range of outcomes "exists following the loss of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten, from merging with a peer conference or expanding its ranks to sticking with 10 schools or vanishing from the landscape altogether." The next two weeks "are vital." At the moment, conference and campus leaders "gather on Zoom calls and wonder who’s truly committed and whose face they might be seeing for the last time."
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