https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/03/pac-12-survival-guide-five-forces-that-will-define-the-path-to-salvation-or-extinction/

In coming days, weeks and months, the Pac-12 will plot a course to salvation … or go the way of the dodo.

A range of outcomes exists following the loss of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten, from merging with a peer conference or expanding its ranks to sticking with 10 schools or vanishing from the landscape altogether.