Modern college athletics is never far from another conference realignment. Even during what still feels like the fallout from the last round of earth-shaking movement – which saw the desolation of the Pac-12, sending west coast teams not only to the Big Ten but to the literal Atlantic Coast Conference – we are silently nearing an even bigger move.
Every wave of realignment so far has seen whatever constitutes the “Power Conferences” consume those that can’t keep up. The Big Ten and the SEC took from the Pac-12, ACC, and Big 12; followed by the Big 12 and ACC finishing off the Conference of Champions. The assumed next step was
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