USC Big Ten Mar 4, 2016; Los Angeles, CA, USA; General view of Southern California Trojans football helmet and the Olympic torch at the peristyle end of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Coliseum operated by USC will serve as the temporary home of the Los Angeles Rams after NFL owners voted 30-2 to allow Rams owner Stan Kroenke (not pictured) to relocate the franchise from St. Louis for the 2016 season. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
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USC now features Big Ten uniform patches during recruit photoshoots, another telltale sign that the move to the conference looms.

The Trojans will go to the Big Ten in 2024 after they spend one final year in the Pac-12. The move to the Big Ten is pretty jarring for college football enthusiasts. USC (and UCLA) has exclusively held ties to the west coast throughout their existence. They have been the preeminent West Coast power in football. Now, though, they’ll get a bit more Midwestern once they join the Big Ten. Geographically? Makes no sense. Financially? Well, by now, you know the deal.

USC photographed five-star recruit Mike Matthews on his visit to the university in the full Trojans uniform. As On3 pointed out, the jersey features a Big Ten patch stitched on the left side instead of the Pac-12 patch.

The Trojans’ move for the Big Ten turned a lot of heads on Twitter. Needless to say, the move will have to take some getting used to based on the responses.

 

Even a USC fan knows this will take some adjustments.

The tweets continued, and most of them still felt off.

Conference realignment will always find a way to confound you. USC and its move to the Big Ten is no different. We’ll see how their final season in the Pac-12 goes with high expectations in L.A. again.

[On3 Sports]

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