Breaking News: Big Ten Conference Adds Washington and Oregon, Expands to 18 Teams in 2024 | B1G Live 

Reaction to the news that the Big Ten will be expanding to 18 teams by adding Oregon and Washington. 0:00 - Bruce Feldman and Joel Klatt React 24:15 - Andy Katz on What the Additions Mean for Basketball 38:16 - Fox Sports’ and Former Oregon Coach Mark Helfrich on What It Means for the Ducks 50:41 - The Athletic’s Nicole Auerbach on the Financials & Today’s Events 1:04:29 - Anthony Herron, Nicole Auerbach and Jake Butt Reactions and Thoughts

I could not be more excited for this! I can just imagine the epic games and new rivalries! The big 10 has been tremendous in its additions the last few years. Welcome usc, ucla, washington and oregon! Go bucks!

What a awesome day 4 BIG schools on the west coast welcome to the show Washington and Oregon can't wait to see Michigan in Seattle and Eugene. GO Blue!!!

The New Big Ten will be hella fun to watch!!!! I'm excited!!!!

This is crazy! But I'm very excited to see my Washington Huskies in the B1G Conference.

i LOVE both these programs. i remember playing Washington in the rosebowl many years ago. and i love what Oregon has done for college football. welcome to the Big 10

Will be weird watching Oregon at USC with a B1G logo on the field. Interesting times

As a life long UW fan I’m hella pumped to join the B1G. I just feel bad for Washington State.

The country is finally going to realize how good the PAC teams are. They never got a fair shake prior

Really looking forward to the Uniform game. Maryland (Under Armour) and Oregon (Nike).

As a Michigan fan in excited to see OSU play USC, UCLA, and Oregon.

The matchups, the venues, the alumni, and the fan base of all 18 schools spread out coast to coast will be exciting to all no matter what the time zones or the traveling miles will be.

I miss watching the Pac 10 champion playing the Big 10 champion in the Rose Bowl on New Year's day. That will never happen again. 😢 Heck, the Pac 12 no longer exists.

Welcome to the show! B1G adds two cfb playoff teams. The inaugural playoff is now vs 2 B1G teams, technically. We'll see how it goes but this is a B1G middle finger to the SEC!

I can’t wait to see UW play UW

Wolverine fan living in Seattle, excited to watch UM battle the Huskies

It is like the twilight zone seeing the “B1G” logo next to the Oregon O. I’m pumped for the future of this conference!

As a lifelong Husky I'm extremely excited and proud to be one of the teams to come over to the B1G. Obviously now theres work to be done. But we get to keep our rivalry wirh Oregon alive and well and get to raise the level of competition overall which in the short-term will be difficult, but in the long-term will be a huge for the brand we put out in all sports. But specifically football. Looking forward to seeing games broadcast nationally and watching how recruiting builds. Washington and Oregon are both great programs and will really grow into something special in the future as they grow in the conference. Go Huskies!!!!

Oregon (Nike) vs. Maryland (Under Armour) will be an interesting battle of the Left and Right coast!

Huge Michigan fan and I'm pumped to be adding some seriously competitive football teams to the conference.

Hello B1G fans! 🙂 As a UO grad and longtime fan who's been to 35+ games, I'm excited to start playing y'all. It's gonna be weird to not see Cal, Stanford, Wazzu, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Arizona State, etc on our schedule anymore, but I'm sure we'll have plenty of good games against B1G teams in the coming years. Curious to see how football scheduling is worked out, but I think the four the west coast teams should all play each other annually to help cut down on travel. It'd guarantee one or two shorter road trips for all four programs every year in addition to reducing the number of times existing B1G teams will have to travel across the country. Plus we're all familiar foes to one another, and I'd argue matchups between Oregon/Washington/USC/UCLA are pretty much always highly anticipated games that draw big crowds and solid TV ratings. Looking forward to meeting fans of existing B1G teams and welcoming them to Autzen! I'm certain it'll be a sold-out madhouse when the big dogs come to visit, but hopefully attendance and ratings will be solid for the medium and small B1G teams as well.

Good for Oregon & Washington joining the BIG10.

As an S.C. fan living in the midwest, i cant be more excited for my team to be playing here! FIGHT ON ✌️🗡🏈 🌊🏄‍♂️🌴

Not only football - just think of the number of solid basketball programs in the Big Ten with these additions.

I'm a TERP fan. I love the way this conference stretches from coast to coast. this will help Maryland recruiting. we will have an opportunity to recruit west coast player that normally would not even consider the Terrapins. thank you Big10!

I think its great! Great brands, great Games , Great venues!

With the Big Ten getting LA, it is possible that the Rose Bowl be the permanent host of the Big Ten football championship game.

I'm a Husker fan living in Oregon. Can't wait to go see the Big Red in Autzen Stadium. GBR!

Lifelong big ten fan here. We are killing college football 😢

Let's dump early season out of conference games. No more cupcake teams. Will diminish SOS arguments. Conference is now big enough that we can just play in conference schedules.

Give me more competitive games that’s all that matters. This move makes Saturday double the fun.

As a Michigan fan, this is pretty exciting with the additions of USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington. Now there will be plenty of Marquee games in conference and think about these Marquee games will now be on three major networks, Fox, CBS and NBC. Not to mention there will be some big games on FS1, Big Ten Network and to a lesser extent, peacock. I feel that the exposure these West Coast Schools will have played a factor into them joining the Big Ten.

Folks… Hawaii has been traveling for ages. Never heard them whine about the time zone adjustments.

If big 10 gets more teams theyll have their own mini league

Oregon's record vs BIG10 since 2012 below. Outside of Michigan State, Washington hasn't won a meaningful team vs the BIg10 since 2001. Oregon is a serious problem for BIG10 teams. They're built like an SEC school, they're deep at each position, they're a top 10 recruiting class, their coach is on the rise, and their home field: "Autzen Stadium is where great teams go to die." Lloyd Carr, Michigan Coach. 2021/09/11 Oregon 35 - Ohio State 28 W 2020/01/01 Oregon 28 - Wisconsin 27 W Rose Bowl 2018/12/31 Oregon 7 - Michigan St 6 W Redbox Bowl 2017/09/09 Oregon 42 - Nebraska 35 W 2016/09/17 Oregon 32 - Nebraska 35 L 2015/09/12 Oregon 28 - Michigan St 31 L 2015/01/12 Oregon 20 - Ohio State 42 L CFP Championship 2014/09/06 Oregon 46 - Michigan St 27 W 2012/01/02 Oregon 45 - Wisconsin 38 W Rose Bowl

The BTN crew is going to need to replace the bus with a plane for the fall camp bus tours going forward.

Bring in Cal and Stanford to the Big10. Big10 would have 4, five team divisions. And a 4 team "playoff" to determine the champion. North Division: Washington, Oregon, Stanford, Minnesota, Wisconsin. South Division: UCLA, USC, CAL, Nebraska, Iowa Central Division: Northwestern, Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Michigan St. East Division: Michigan, Ohio St, Penn St, Maryland, Rutgers 8 game Conference schedule. This gives each team 4 Division games, and 1 game against each other Division. 1 permanent cross Division rivalry for each team to maintain rivalries. Conference game 9 match ups are determined based on divisional standings (North v South and Central v East) with the top teams from each division matching up to determine who plays in the championship game. This balances out travel issues as every school would have at least one long trip. Also because game 9 will be determined based on divisional standings, you will get a balanced and competitive final game. For other sports, like basketball, you play everyone once, and your natural rival twice. 20 is the magic number.

As a Midwesterner I found the addition of Rutgers kinda way out in left field as a member, but now these 4 make Rutgers seem pretty local lol.

Thanks Larry Scott.

I honestly thought when the new B1G logo was introduced they will go to 18 teams because the "G" in the logo appears to have a 8 and it was all in the branding.

There's a super convenient way to schedule an 18-team football league: Ten games make up the conference season for each team. Each team gets three protected rivalries, who they play every year. Each team plays the remaining 14 teams every other year. This allows each team two non-conference games per year, three geographic or historical rivalry games per year, AND allows players the chance to potentially play against each B1G opponent home and away at least once over the course of 4 years.

Making it sound like the B10 did this for OR &WA out of goodwill is deceptive. The B10 saw a fire sale and knew they has OR & WA over a barrel to accept less money. The B10 schools are getting more money, or they would not have voted for these additions. If they felt goodwill they would have taken Stanford & Cal too. It was all about money, with logistics being a bonus.

Being left out of the rat race for more money has to hurt financially, but it can help restore some semblance of consistency and normalcy for the average student/fan of those schools left out. More consistent start times, games played on Saturday afternoon like when grandpa went to school vs. whenever which network dictates your start times 3-4 days before kickoff, new chances to create new rivalries. There is always a path forward, but the first step is often the hardest.

This channel Already an upgrade from Pac 12 network. 🎉.

The SEC will still rule college football. Add as many teams as you’d like. Real football is played in the South!

Besides sports, academically the big 10 adds two AAU member and boosts total up to 17 with only Nebraska being left off the AAU members list, compare that with ACC who has 7 including Notre Dame, SEC 5, Big 12 4 (all new this year)

2 away from the Big10 becoming the Big20!!!!

Think about recruiting too. Years ago my nephews were on a San Diego HS football team that had a top tier recruit, and he was looking at some Big 10 schools, but in the end, he didn't like the idea that if he came here, none of his friends and family were likely to ever be able to come to any of his games. Now, a kid from the west coast who comes to the Midwest can be sure of at least some games out there every year.

Washington vs Michigan Can't wait!

Let’s go Ducks

How soon they forget that Oregon beat Ohio State 2 years ago. Oregon has been asking for more challenges. You all will be surprised how well Oregon does in the Big 10.

Everyone just focuses on football and that is fine. But this gives great opportunities for Al sports. Women’s tennis and swimming and gymnastics. It is all fantastic.

New Sub 🦆who now resides in Midwest glad to b on da A Team no more Wak 12 with horrible referees and games played late nite 💯🅿️ GO DUCKS

Oregon and Oregon state have played since 1894. Hopefully they can work something out.

With 18 teams, it seems obvious to have two 9 team divisions (football). Hopefully, they are fluid divisions which change every season depending on the previous season's results.

The hardest part about this will be the UW vs. UW, and officially having to decide who has the rights to UDub.

The base issue is media rights should not be administered by leagues. All schools could get the highest if the NCAA did their job. Can you imagine if each division in the NFL had the right to add teams and administrate Media. Stupid. Regional leagues still make more sense for all college sports.

I beg the differ, Joel Klatt. The Big Ten was very predatory when it swooped in and snatched USC and UCLA to begin with.

I think everyone who had an ault against Kevin Warren owes that man an apology. He called game on Oregon and Washington and people didnt like how he was moving. But following the path that he already paved... smh the hypocrisy

This has been craziness. Its a happy day but also a sad day. Hsppy in the fact Ducks and the huskies have a home for sure now. Sad in the way of our conference dying, rivalry games possibly very rarely never being played again. Go Ducks 🦆🦆🦆

Surprising the games will start so soon

not surprised at all, I expected these 2 would be invited

I look for the B1G and SEC to demand the two get at least half of the automatic bids (ie - at least 6 spots) when the playoff format is decided with the Big 12/ACC each getting 1. It might not happen in 2024 because of optics but it will happen eventually. With the money advantages the SEC/B1G have, it will be tougher every year for other conferences to compete making it unfair to leave the decision of who gets in to people outside the B1G and SEC. When that happens it will allow the B1G to create a championship weekend to for a play-in game (1v2 for the championship/playoff bye and 3v4 for the 3rd spot in the playoff). A B1G/SEC playoff weekend will make a ridiculous amount of money (TV networks love live TV with huge ratings 4 weeks before Christmas).

Heck might as well add Stanford and Cal they won’t add value as far as television but would save member schools many millions of dollars in travel costs.

The 12 team CFP was as only created to keep control of an expected outcome, 16 teams gives less advantage to the top 4.

Easy to do East West divisions now. From michigan and Indiana to the east are all east teams and from illinois west (NU or Ill to the east and other to the west) are all west teams.

What happens to 2024 schedules? Will have to reshuffle. Going back to divisions (isn't the plan to get rid of divisions)? Waiting for additional adds?

I wonder how this will impact the 2024 schedule, which was already released. They will obviously scrap that now. How many "locks" does each team get now (it was going to be 3)? And what will they be?

Yes sir! When they put it together right it's on !

This makes zero sense geographically. Do you really want to watch Big Ten games starting at 10PM EST on the west coast! Not to mention they just decimated the PAC10. This is a big mistake as the conference is way too big now. Not to mention the long history of the Big 10 has now been compromised. What a mud pie! The only good thing is that these are great west coast programs. But my gut feeling is nausea! 🤮

B2G needs the fighting Lil men, and the pine trees.

USC @ Washington with a B1G Logo on the football field and uniforms instead of a Pac 12 logo will take some getting use to. It simply comes down to money 💰 and certainly USC, UCLA, OREGON AND WASHINGTON deserve the B1G CONFERENCE. WHY NOT SEE OHIO STATE VS. WASHINGTON OR MICHIGAN VS USC MORE FREQUENTLY AND SO ON. Best of luck to USC, UCLA, OREGON AND WASHINGTON IN THE B1G CONFERENCE IN 2024!

Do you guys realize that all the current Big 10 baseball, softball, golf and track teams travel to either the west coast or deep south for the first 5-6 weeks of their seasons already? As a further example Michigan plays W soccer at USC and Pepperdine this year. Last year W tennis played at Tempe, Seattle, San Francisco and Berkeley. M tennis played at Tempe, San Diego twice, Seattle, and LaJolla and USC traveled to Ann Arbor twice . The point is that travel to the west coast is nothing new for most Big 10 teams. Granted in the past the west coast teams traveling to the Midwest wasn't nearly as common.

West coast teams are going to find more difficult than anticipated! The Traveling! Big 10 should dump Maryland & Rutguers

Clemson, Miami, Florida State, Virginia, North Carolina, ND, Cal, Stanford to the BigTen.

Should the Big Ten reconsider having divisions and division champions?

Love this move. Glad to watch Pac 12 incompetence help the Big Ten get bigger! Bigger 10 does sound good, grab UNC and Clemson or and call it the Big 20.

WOW😮 Next season???? That is TOTALLY AWESOME😃🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Notre Dame is our last piece of the puzzle for the Big Ten.

What about Stanford and Cal? Will BIG take them as well? That SF/NorCal market is appealing

Oregon-Rutgers should be a great match up.

It’s really silly when every analyst says that long travel is being “alleviated” by adding two more west coast schools. You can’t play a team (depending on the sport) more twice in a season. Also, it’s not a short flight from LA to Seattle. It’s 2 1/2 hours. I think the reality is that non revenue producing sports are going to have a rude awakening in the future. They will likely go to regional conferences with Football and basketball staying super conferences

I think with more schools in the conference, the future CFB seasons will probably have extra game schedules. I'm thinking it's going to be a 14-15 game schedule.

If we can get FSU and Clemson we can call it the BIG20, Grand20 or Mega20 conference

You know Big Ten is just foaming at the mouth to get Notre Dame involved. Then just one more school after that. 😁💯✅

The Chicago Bears need to build a domed stadium and build a entertainment district in Arlington Heights to have the Big 10 Football Championship game in a central location outside of Indianapolis.

As a badger fan I'm incredibly excited to add two more of the biggest teams on the west coast. If I have anything to say we do need Washington and Oregon to step it up on the basketball side of things

who's next? Cal? Stanford? FSU? Clemson? North Carolina?

Irony is that Pac 12 in last year of thier existence became the best conference in college football!!

I hope with the additions, there is a 1-8 model. 1 protected opponent, 8 home and away alternates. Final regular season games... Ohio state vs TTUN PSU vs Mich st Maryland vs Rutgers Indiana vs Purdue Northwestern vs Illinois Minnesota vs Wisc Iowa vs Neb Oregon vs Wash USC vs UCLA

Great adds on par with the other members of the conference. Can't wait to poach Duke and UNC after the ACC falls apart next.

If I were USC I'd drop ND at this point with all the headliner games they'll have every year while in the B1G.

I hope karma comes one day for the B1G, usc, ucla, uw, and oregon. The complete disrespect for 100 years of tradition and pageantry is disgusting. I guess some people only care about more money.

That big 18 sounding juicy

Oregon's phrase to Washington is "We don't like them, they hate us"😂😂😂😂😂

I'm just not good with this.

Man EA going to be reworking these fields and unis for all of these switches next year lol 2024 is going to be the BIGGEST YEAR OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL in history! The DEBUT of 3 SUPER CONFERENCES and the RETURN of NCAA FOOTBALL!

If the big12 is smart you start to look into adding Louisville, Duke,NC, Miami, Pitt, Syracuse, and maybe Boston College. That would make them a power house in Basketball and some more exposure to there football brand in the east.

As a Cal fan, I’m really sad

Went from pac 12 to pacing up for good