When the UCLA Bruins moved to the Big Ten Conference, most throughout college sports knew they would be doing a ton of traveling. But, as the college football season arrived, it was announced that UCLA would be traveling more than any team in the country this season.
UCLA will make trips to Hawaii, Baton Rouge, Happy Valley, Piscataway, Lincoln Nebraska, and Seattle for their 2024 road games. The Bruins will be traveling more than 11,000 miles during the 2024 season. That is nearly 700 miles more than the California Bears, who are second on the list.
Washington, USC, and Oregon also finished in the Top 10 according to a study from Front Office Sports on X.
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All in all, there are more than 10 power conference teams that are traveling more than 5,000 miles on the season. They are all from the Big Ten Conference or the Atlantic Coast Conference. The ACC added California, Stanford, and SMU, which are adding to the total distance of the existing conference.