The Big Ten will maintain its East and West divisions for the 2023 college football season before reconfiguring once USC and UCLA join the conference in 2024, according to a report Monday by The Athletic. The conference announced expansion with the Trojans and Bruins in June, bringing the league to 16 teams once those schools join in the summer of 2024.

Iowa athletic director Gary Barta previously told The Athletic that scrapping East and West divisions in favor of a different type of football schedule was under consideration. It is not clear if divisions of some type, with a different configuration, will remain once USC and UCLA join.

The current geographical divisions went into effect in 2014 when Maryland and Rutgers joined the Big Ten, bringing the league to 14 teams. The Big Ten did not have divisions before 2011. The addition of Nebraska that season led to the formation of the "Leaders" and "Legends" divisions, which lasted for just three seasons before the switch to the East and West.