Unfortunately I think it will. The Trojans won't need it as much. Instead of playing the Irish they get to play Penn St., OSU, Michigan, MSU & get the eyeballs from the midwest. If nothing else they start the season every other year instead of end it. Ohio St. - Michigan followed by Southern Cal - Penn St./MSU is a pretty nice way for the Big Ten to end the year.
Since they already will have a presence in the Midwest they will want nonconference games with teams from the hot beds of recruiting in the Southeast and Southwest.
So…..no.
If they drop us they follow Miami's path to irrelevance after that series ended.
USC is now the 3rd best professional team in SoCal... and desperately need to remain nationally viable.
The Big Ten is stlll a refional conference in a region of demographic decline.
ND puts them in the national spotlight evety single year.
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