During the 2024-25 school year, two-hour journeys turn into nearly day-long trips, which will only increase the amount of time athletes spend away. That amounted to 12 days away in the span of less than two months. But programs like USC baseball and UCLA softball - who played 53 and 61 games in 2022, respectively - may feel the brunt of travel.īeginning March 19 and ending May 8, the start of Pac-12 play this past season, UCLA softball took four road trips against Washington, Stanford, Oregon State and Arizona State. Sports like football, which has the benefit of a week between games and simply play less often, will be easier to coordinate. The average distance from UCLA to a school in the Big Ten is about 2,160 miles.

The average distance from UCLA to another school in the Pac-12 - not including USC - is about 735 miles.Traveling to Penn State by plane would take upwards of six hours. The farthest school in the Big Ten from UCLA is Rutgers, about 2,800 miles away and a five-hour-plus flight.That’s still 400 miles less than the closest school in the Big Ten, Nebraska. The farthest school in the Pac-12 from UCLA is Washington, at 1,132 miles.Via Google Maps, that’s about a 22-hour drive depending, you know, on traffic, or a five-hour flight. MSU has the Big Tens most anemic offense (12.0 points per game in conference games), but IU trails the conference defensively (allowing 35.

Say UCLA football were to take a road trip for an away game at Nebraska - the closest institution in the Big Ten to the Los Angeles schools at a mere 1,537 miles away.

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