The development comes as the Pac-12 teeters under commissioner George Kliavkoff.
The Pac-12’s ongoing struggle to land a media rights deal has pushed the conference to the brink of extinction based on the latest development thousands of miles away. The Big Ten is considering membership invitations for Washington, Oregon, Stanford and Cal, according to Yahoo., with four Big Ten presidents engaging in “exploratory” discussions about creating a western division. USC and UCLA are scheduled to join the conference next summer.
The Big Ten presidents had shown no interest in adding more schools following the move last summer to gobble up USC and UCLA, partly because the conference didn’t want to be viewed as predatory and partly because of financial complications.
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