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What will the next big conference realignment move have in store?

A Southern California native and veteran of several Big Ten winters, Myles Johnson knows the first words likely uttered by former Pac-12 athletes once their new conference smacks them like a midwinter Lake Michigan breeze.

It's about name, image and likeness, they said. It's about like-minded academic institutions. It's about growing opportunities to recruit.

Mountain West Should Not Be Worried About Losing Members Will a Mountain West team bolt? Contact/Follow @JeremyMauss & @MWCwire What can the league do? College athletics is just crazy right now with every league not named the Big Ten caught off ...

LOS ANGELES — The Big Ten Conference needs a bigger trophy case.

MINNEAPOLIS — The commissioners for the Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC appeared together at a virtual news conference last August to express unity and a spirit of collaboration in announcing a new "Alliance" partnership in the wake of jarring news that Texas and Oklahoma were bolting to the SEC.

USC and UCLA? They went Piscataway — er, thataway, off for greener pa$ture$ in the Big Ten.

SAN DIEGO — During the souped-up muscle car race on the Modern Collegiate Athletics Speedway, the Pac-12 had lost horsepower and got itself lapped.

LOS ANGELES — It was perhaps the most uncertain stretch in the history of college athletics. Chaos reigned amid rumors of realignment. A blue-blood program was threatening to abandon its conference over TV money. Another conference commissioner was openly courting that blue blood with the intent of building a super…