It’s a little better than that. I did a quick check. Current Big 12 AAU members are:
So just over one-third. Certainly not as academically elite as the PAC-12. But we PAC-12 refugees do polish up the Big 12–doubling their number of AAU schools…
It’s Iowa, not Iowa State.
Iowa St. was an AAU member, but dropped out recently.
Why would it be Iowa? Iowa State is in B12.
USC is still a relatively small private school. About 20K undergrad and maybe 25K postgrads most of whom don’t care about football as they’re from other parts of the world. We’ve never had particularly massive crowds even during the McKay, Robinson, & Carroll heydays. This isn’t Tuscaloosa where the only thing to do besides watch college football is to hunt squirrels.
But I’ll tell you what the B1G will find out; we’ve historically stacked up well against them. All those Rose Bowl Championship Trophies on the shelf account for something. Just think, we get to beat up on those overrated midwestern teams multiple times a season now.
FTFO!
I bet this post would kill it on a USC Trojans message board
Is Tulane considered midwestern? Asking for a friend.
Ok Uncle Rico. Time to stop living on your past successes. Those were many moons ago.
Because I made a mistake. 
Haha…it happens. Didn’t know why.
You were rolling. 
Things have been shady for millennia.
Pretty sure USC stands for Unclerico State College.
Unclerico’s Spoiled Children?
FWIW, that campus is in the heart of the Garden District. The exact opposite of Midwestern. Lol. Probably that extra boudin before the game helped them destroy the boys of Inglewood.
Got to listen to some serious knuckle dragger stuff yesterday. Guys from NC calling into ESPN claiming Kentucky was not in the South.
I never laughed so hard listening to them and the show hosts trying to play a game of “You ain’t South if…”
I remember some moron calling into a local NC sports talk station whining about us getting into the PAC just after we moved here in 2012. Your post reminded me of that dude. He’s argument was less than stellar. I don’t recall what the host said afterward, I just remember that the dude was an idiot.
Not gonna lie. I don’t see it as a “True Southern” state. It’s def Mid-South with a combo of Midwestern, Appalachian, and Southern. Eastern Kentucky has more in common with West Virginia and Western Virginia and where I live in Southern Kentucky is more like Tennessee and anything near the Ohio River is more like Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Missouri. I also don’t see North Carolina as anything like say Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia and anything south of Gainesville has as much in common with the NY/NJ/PA area as it does the south.
It’s why I would say the four corner states have similarities but are def their own thing and have their own cultures.
@Carolina_Cycling_Ute I’m sure they think Kentucky wasn’t on the right side in The War of Northern Aggression, AKA The Lost Cause…
At the outset of Civil War, shortly after the fighting at Fort Sumter in South Carolina in April 1861, Kentucky’s state legislature officially declared its neutrality. Kentucky did not officially align itself with the Union, nor did it secede to join the Confederate States.
However, a failed attempt by the Confederacy, lead by General Leonidas Polk, to take the state by force to join the Confederate States all but forced the state’s legislature to pick a side. After the failed coup by General Polk, Kentucky state legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance. In early 1862, Kentucky was largely under Union control.
I understand, and remember the history. Still doesn’t change what I said about the caller and us getting into the PAC. I’d also still argue that the, with @Greginslc, caller saying KY isn’t in the South is a knuckle dragger.