A committee report tabled at the council meeting listed the numerous achievements of Pardew, who died on June 2 2021 at the . If conference realignment realizes itself via merger, a Pac-12/Big 12 hybrid would present a viable Super League of sorts to go up against the Big Ten and SEC should those two juggernauts expand even more. C-USA loses programs to conferences greater in the hierarchy and plucks from conferences lower. Air Force vs Brigham Young, Notre Dame vs Boston College, Army vs Navy. Stony Brook left on July 1, 2022 for the CAA, while Bryant joined from the NEC. I would go to so many Lumberjacks games. College Football Playoff Projections (10/30/22), Updated Proposed Big Ten "Permanent Rivals" (3-6-6 Format), What the 2023 Big Ten Schedule Will Look Like Under New TV Contracts, Women's Volleyball: 2022 B1G Season Catch-Up, Big Ten wrestling kicks off not with a bang, but with a whimper. Former Sun Belt. Namely, the three power conferences sought an alternative to expansion during a dynamic time in the sport. With those ground rules in place, this is what I came up with. When Central Florida, Houston and Cincinnati decided to leave the American Athletic Conference for the Big 12 in September, AAC commissioner Mike Aresco did not hit the panic button. Sep 10, 2021 at 12:31 pm ET 4 min read USATSI The next domino in realignment fell on Friday when the Big 12 officially invited Cincinnati, Houston, UCF and BYU to the conference. Memphis and App State get fun new rivals. The conference lost one of its better mens basketball programs in Loyola but gained two perennially strong programs with Belmont and Murray State, while keeping a presence in Chicago with UIC. "It is difficult to forecast whether the COVID-19 virus pandemic could trigger conference realignment," Liberty athletic director Ian McCaw said in an email. * 21+ (18+ NH/WY). C-USA subtractions: Alabama-Birmingham, Florida Atlantic, Charlotte, Marshall, North Texas, Old Dominion, Rice, Southern Miss, Texas-San Antonio. Brett McMurphy . As much as programs like Appalachian State and Southern Miss deserve an upward trajectory for conference alignment, money and politics always come into play. Out: Hawaii, San Diego State, Nevada, New Mexico, Air Force, In: Stanford, Sacramento State, Northern Arizona, Utah, Montana, South: Stanford vs San Jose State, Sacramento State vs Fresno State, Nevada Las Vegas vs Northern Arizona (Hoover Dam Trophy! -- Rittenberg, Future look: Air Force, Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, San Diego State, San Jose State, UNLV, Utah State, Wyoming. "Maybe it's a story that needs to be written," Bowlsby said. The AAC, as we've said before, would be a fantastic landing spot. There are so many private universities in that conference that it's hard to tell what everyone makes, but App makes a little more than half the AAC median revenue. 2 in the AP poll, while UCF is a massive public school (with a current enrollment of 66,000) that has previously reached nearly the same heights as the Bearcats. Out: Texas State, Georgia Southern, Coastal Carolina, Appalachian State, In: Louisiana Tech, Western Kentucky, Middle Tennessee State, Alabama Birmingham, Florida Atlantic, Florida International, West: Arkansas State vs Louisiana Tech, Louisiana Monroe vs Louisiana at Lafayette, Western Kentucky vs Middle Tennessee, East: Alabama Birmingham vs Georgia State, South Alabama vs Troy, Florida Atlantic vs Florida International, Championship Game: Mercedes-Benz Superdome New Orleans, Louisiana. In the last 48 hours, my Twitter notifications have been flooded by Boise State fans and San Diego. New Mexico State and Sam Houston will leave for Conference USA in 2023, and thats also when Lamar will head back to the Southland. Common sense prevailed and neither school is leaving for now. Atlantic 10 Conference (15 full members)DavidsonDaytonDuquesneFordhamGeorge MasonGeorge WashingtonLa Salle Loyola ChicagoMassachusettsRhode IslandRichmondSt. Little Rock and UT-Arlington, the conferences two non-football playing members, departed for conferences that are less football-centric. Odds are that Oklahoma and Texas will work out a financial deal with the remaining eight Big 12 teams, which so far don't seem willing to allow their two flagship schools to walk away without a fight. I thought I'd share it with you people since y'all are the only cats I know who might appreciate it. The Universidad de Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Gallitos make their triumphant entrance into FBS football because Miami needs a rival. Athletic Departments Cancelled for being Evil: Ole Miss, Baylor, Liberty, Added Teams: Sacramento State, Montana, Northern Arizona, South Dakota State, Missouri State, Northern Iowa, Northern Michigan, Stony Brook, Delaware, Towson, Puerto Rico, Annual OOC Rivalries: Stanford vs Cal, Nevada vs UNLV, Indiana vs Kentucky, Ohio vs Miami, Vanderbilt vs Tennessee, Georgia State vs Georgia Southern, Army vs Stony Brook, Navy vs Towson, Seeds 1-11: Each conference champion ranked by Playoff Formula (50% AP Poll, 50% SP+), Seeds 12-16: Highest ranked remaining teams by Playoff Formula, Even years: Rose Bowl, Sun Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Gator Bowl, Odd years: Fiesta Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Peach Bowl, Orange Bowl, Even years: Allegiant Stadium, US Bank Stadium, Mercedes-Benz Stadium (championship game rotates), Odd years: SoFi Stadium, AT&T Stadium, Lucas Oil Stadium (championship game rotates), National Championship Game: 2 weeks later. A really good showing of 40-45k people next month can go a long way. All hail the lower travel costs! ThomasSan DiegoStetsonValparaiso. Ok so I'm doing a dynasty of App state going to the FBS. Stony Brook, Delaware, and Towson jump up to round out the rest of these teams into a new conference. If the AAC gets swallowed up by the Big 12, the Sun Belt can become the predominant G5 (or G4) remaining. The Sun Belt boasted 21 nonconference wins, including a 3-0 mark against the Big 12, while Coastal Carolina and Louisiana-Lafayette were each ranked at the end of the season. BonaventureSaint JosephsSaint LouisVCU. Both conferences are made up of schools that are full members of other conferences. Their upcoming departure set off a panic among the remaining schools, all of whom are tied to the conference until 2025. Reset Options: Year: 2021-2022 2022-2023 2023-2024 2024-2025 2025-2026 Select: By Subdivision Individually FBS: Visible Hidden Inactive The Tigers seem fit to dominate in the American Athletic Conference as Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF transition to the Big 12. In an interview with CBS last week, Bowlsby reiterated that the league plans to hold OU and Texas to its commitment. ", What remains unclear is what any future television deals will look like with the new configuration, and whether it will be close to the deal the AAC has now with ESPN, which runs through 2031-32 and pays out about $6 million per school. This is a discussion on App state conference re-alignment opinion? Odds & lines subject to change. The question then becomes how the ACC can remain competitive with its regional rival in the SEC when that league might ultimately double the ACC's TV contract while enjoying the immense recruiting advantage of being seen as, essentially, a mini-NFL. Clemson football: Be leery of Florida State during conference realignment Clemson football fans are heavily invested in what might be the next moves of the everchanging College Football. The question some in and around the Big Ten keep asking is why the league entered the Alliance with two weaker, poorer conferences. ACC conference expansion has to be about football this time around. What an awesome division filled with to the brim with rivalries. American Athletic Conference (14 full members)CharlotteEast CarolinaFlorida AtlanticMemphis North Texas RiceSouth FloridaSMUTempleTulaneTulsaUAB UTSAWichita State**Wichita State does not play football. There were talks about adding Middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky from Conference USA, but MTSU decided it wanted to stay put and MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said in a statement that the league is not pursuing expansion at the present time. Breaking up GSU rivalry sucks but it can be an annual non-conference game. San Diego State may be the surprise addition to this list, but theyve won 10+ games in five of the last seven seasons, and with an enrollment of 35,000+ and situated in a metro area with more than 3.3 million people (and no NFL team) they seem like a no-brainer. THE POWER FOUR! Washington State. Twenty percent of FBS programs have belonged to C-USA at one point or another, and of its original football members, only Alabama-Birmingham and Southern Miss remain in the conference. The Gallitos benefit from the same extra game rule as Hawaii. -- Mark Schlabach, Future look: Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, NC State, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest. Leaving: Chicago State, Lamar, New Mexico State, Sam Houston. The league held at 10 on July 1, 2022 as three departures were offset by Little Rock joining from the Sun Belt and Southern Indiana and Lindenwood moving up from Division II. That the ACC's fortunes in 2021 have fallen even further -- marquee teams Clemson, Miami and Florida State are all struggling -- and that the league has yet to broker a deal to get its TV network on Comcast only add to the reasons Notre Dame is in the catbird's seat in any possible talks. Tramel's ScissorTales: Chad Weiberg keeps a calm hand on OSU amid conference realignment. TCU and Texas Tech get relegated. The OVC lost two members to the ASUN last year, dropping from 12 full members to 10. It never seemed likely from a Pac-12 perspective, but there was some logic that the conference would benefit from getting into the Central time zone with teams such as Oklahoma State or Texas Tech. Either way, the Sun Belt will win this round of realignment (as it did, in retrospect, the last time around) and C-USA will look almost completely different in a few years than it does now. The additions, particularly in Texas, are meant to solidify the league's Western flank and also draw in larger media markets. In Kansas and Oklahoma, throughout the state of Texas and into the cornfields of Iowa, we have a broken heartland in our country as the Big 12 seems ready to evaporate just as the Big East did a . Out: Louisville, Boston College, Virginia Tech, North Carolina State, Wake Forest, North Carolina, Clemson, Florida State, In: Maryland, Rutgers, West Virginia, Central Florida, South Florida, Puerto Rico, North: Rutgers vs Syracuse, Pittsburgh vs West Virginia, Maryland vs Virginia, South: Duke vs (North Carolina), Georgia Tech vs (Georgia), Central Florida vs South Florida, Miami FL vs Puerto Rico, Championship Game: Bank of America Stadium Charlotte, North Carolina. Leaving: Jacksonville State, Kennesaw State, Liberty. 2 LB in '23, decommits from Texas A&M, CFP rankings: Who won, who should be angry and what a 12-team field would look like, Bottom 10: Clemson claims a spot and a Bull market at the top, Heisman Watch 2022: Leading contenders, current odds and top moments, How transfer windows will change college football: Everything we know, and what coaches are saying, College football Week 11 betting trends: Why TCU might have an edge over Texas, Why Alabama's season fell apart -- and what Nick Saban can do about it. Because theyre the big boys in the sport, of course the SEC are the ones who get to keep their name (helps that their name makes the most sense in a geography-based realignment). While its been happening for a while, the most recent round of college football realignment has really driven the point home: these conferences no longer make sense. When it finally subsided in 2014, the landscape had changed . Update 3: I moved. All in all, App finds itself in a better spot than it probably could've imagined itself just 7 years ago pre-SBC. But with the top three football programs gone, this is a blow to the American in the short term. With the first 16-team Power 5 league. Losing UIC on July 1, 2022 dropped the Horizon League from 12 members to 11. That could happen as early as 2022, or they could ride out their remaining four years in the Big 12 -- as painful and inhospitable as that might be. North Carolina A&T will stick around for football only in 2022 before leaving in 2023. Plus, who doesnt want to make regular road trips to Boone a thing? (KAIT) - The Sun Belt Conference is exploring their options as realignment continues in college football. C-USA responded by adding four schools -- Liberty, Jacksonville State, New Mexico State and Sam Houston State -- for the 2023 season. Stay put in the Sun Belt Conference: This offseason the SBC inked an extension deal with ESPN that will run till 2031. Geography-based conferences, like God intended. Sirs Not-Appearing-in-this-Realignment Athletic Departments Cancelled for being Evil: Ole Miss, Baylor, Liberty Added Teams: Sacramento State, Montana, Northern Arizona, South Dakota State,. Navy is a football-only affiliate member. Missouri State makes the jump to give Tulsa a rival. if they go into the big east I . Still, work will have to be done with the new additions. Bryant left for America East and Mount St. Marys left for the MAAC on July 1, 2022, while Stonehill College moved up from Division II to join the conference. SDSU makes the jump from FCS to power conference because I wanted to add them and the BIg XII is the only conference that makes geographic sense. "That's a silly part of it. That left C-USA with only five geographically disparate programs -- Florida International, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee, UTEP and Western Kentucky. Baylor gets cancelled. The formation of the Alliance between the Big Ten, ACC and Pac-12 generated some laughter around college football, but the pact has a purpose. I haven't gotten any answers about that." This one is very Big Ten heavy with 11 B1G schools being joined by three from the ACC (Louisville, Syracuse, Boston College) plus Notre Dame, West Virginia, Cincy and Kentucky. The two newcomers joined July 1, 2022 as Chicago State departed for a home still to be determined. The MAAC lost Monmouth but added Mount St. Marys on July 1, 2022. "We are excited to get school open," Gillin said in opening the conversation. At this point in time, the money and politics point towards the AAC standing pat with 11 football teams. After the conference already lost Colorado, Nebraska, Texas A&M and Missouri from 2011 to 2012, Texas and Oklahoma finagled an SEC invite this year, stunning the college football world -- and Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby. Texas and OU both stated in a letter to the SEC that they intend to remain in the Big 12 through June 2025, when that conference's current media rights deals end. Reports indicate that both schools could owe between $76 million and $80 million to leave the conference at the beginning of the 2022 campaign or any time before the media rights grant expires. Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. What never made any sense is that Colorado State also considered a move. Stony Brook was already an affiliate member for football and is now a full member. Any hopes of wooing the Fighting Irish remain distant, at best. What do you think. North: UConn vs UMass, Buffalo vs Stony Brook, Temple vs Delaware, South: Towson vs Old Dominion, Wake Forest vs Charlotte, Coastal Carolina vs Georgia Southern, Championship Game: M&T Bank Stadium Baltimore, Maryland. Just look at the major college football programs and group them based on proximity. (Pages: 1 2 3) andy98. Missouri Valley Conference (12 full members) BelmontBradleyDrakeEvansville Illinois ChicagoIllinois StateIndiana StateMissouri State Murray StateNorthern IowaSouthern IllinoisValparaiso. Zach Miller examines conference realignment and other college sports topics through numbers. Eight teams from the current or future Big 12 , eight from the SEC and two from the Big Ten. Sofia (/ s o f i , s f-, s o f i / SOH-fee-, SOF-; Bulgarian: , romanized: Sofiya, IPA: ()) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria.It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The AAC is losing Cincinnati,. And those moves were the Big 12's reaction to the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners jumping ship for the SEC. Move up to the AAC: Formerly my dream scenario for App progressing in the CFB ranks was to replace UCONN in the AAC. All in all, it's a solid reward for a small conference that really seems to be headed in the right direction. Missouri Valley Football Conference (12 members)Illinois StateIndiana StateMissouri StateMurray StateNorth DakotaNorth Dakota StateNorthern IowaSouth DakotaSouth Dakota StateSouthern IllinoisWestern IllinoisYoungstown State, Pioneer Football League (11 members)ButlerDavidsonDaytonDrakeMaristMorehead StatePresbyterianSt. It makes no sense.". App already suffers from its locale and tv market compared to the other members of that conference who mostly reside in major metro areas, outside of ECU. While the three departing schools are the ones that helped set that standard with a combined four of the league's five New Year's Six appearances, confidence remains high that the league can continue forward and stay in the national spotlight. But strangely enough, this new SEC has only five of the current SEC members (Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina) joined by 10 ACC teams as well as Maryland, UCF andthe big surprise Appalachian State. -- Andrea Adelson. -- Dave Wilson, Future look: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt. Virginia is back in the ACC and East Carolina has moved to the Eastside. Northern Iowa jumps up to move the MAC closer to the middle of America. Moving day will be July 1, 2023. Is this still the most spread out conference in the country? Libertys football program already plays at the FBS level but the conference may seed to find a replacement for Jacksonville State. But Robert, what would the schedule look like with a 18-team conference!?! But that would certainly serve better for C-USA than it would for the SBC as things currently stand. 55: 2,417: Yesterday 07:13 AM Last Post: Milwaukee : On Monday, Sports Illustrated senior writer Pat Forde took things a step further by proposing a hypothetical conference realignment that would completely change the current college sports. Stream on ESPN+. The Big South will team up with the OVC to maintain a path to the FCS football playoffs. Rivalries get broken, with almost 'forced' new ones taking place. Conference realignment almost never sits well with fans of the teams and conferences involved. The Sun Belt Conference has made its realignment moves, . Football talent-wise we're there, all other sports and revenue is another story. Atlantic Coast Conference (15 full members)Boston CollegeClemsonDukeFlorida StateGeorgia TechLouisvilleMiami (Fla.)North CarolinaNorth Carolina StateNotre Dame*PittsburghSyracuseVirginiaVirginia TechWake Forest*Notre Dame is a non-football member, competing as an independent. CFP Projections: Do Michigan or Ohio State tumble? Although the Big Ten and Pac-12 are historically and philosophically aligned around the Rose Bowl and other things, there could be down-the-road value in the Big Ten pursuing schools such as USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington for potential additions. Every conference gets 12 teams with no protected cross-division rivalries. Pat Forde. PLUS selecting a streaming service, B1G Basketball Recaps - Big Ten Opens 14-0, Falls Tarts Week 10: College Football Needs A Little Push, College Football Playoff Rankings Show, Midweek MACtion Open Thread, Suddenly Anyone Can Win The Big Ten West! App State's full-time, on-campus Master of Business Administration (MBA) has been named a Tier One program by CEO Magazine part of the publication's "2022 Global MBA Rankings." App State has held the Tier One distinction for six consecutive years, and its online MBA was ranked alongside 98 internationally recognized programs. Southern Conference (10 full members)ChattanoogaEast Tennessee StateFurmanMercerSamfordThe CitadelUNC Greensboro*VMIWestern CarolinaWofford*UNC Greensboro does not play football. (Both recently arranged to leave.) Terms at draftkings.com/sportsbook. What the Pac-12 decides to do next will set off the next wave of moves. The Pac-12 added Boise State and negotiated with BYU but couldn't agree to terms of scheduling and media rights, leaving the conference to pluck San Diego State, who lands in the Power Five four . It's about population centers, households subscribing to cable or satellite TV and the $.50 to $1.00 per month in subscription fees going to conference television networks. Box 118405 Gainesville, FL 32611 (352) 392-5551 A service of the College of Journalism and Communications The best case long-term scenario sticking it out in the Sun Belt would be that the conference continues to improve from top to bottom, requiring Georgia Southern and Georgia State to elevate their production and give the SBC 5 teams that could reasonably win it all. ESPN reporters answer key questions for each conference and what the next steps might be for each. Before the most recent conference shake-ups, the ACC was already thinking about ways to get out of an increasingly bad TV deal that runs through 2036, with expansion the best option. I made maps for every conference. Two flagship members of the Pac-12 will leave for the Big Ten in 2024. Conference USA will experience the biggest changes with 9 schools leaving and 5 joining. That's right, a Power 13. But thats always going to be the case simply based on how the western half of our country is laid out. The con is that some divisions don't have the best competition. The ACC Conference survived the last round of conference realignment when things. When the Big 12 was in flux, the Pac-12 might have been a potential landing spot for the teams Oklahoma and Texas left behind. The Alliance with the Pac-12 and Big Ten has, thus far, done its job by calming the realignment waters for the ACC. Game Notes 5/22; Quevedos streak ends, road success?, & Jimenez hot streak, Life Lessons from The Last Dance on Netflix, FC Sheriff Tiraspol Has Its Champions League Memory, READ/DOWNLOAD^ Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy, Ansu Fati On Cloud Nine: Becomes The Youngest Ever Scorer For Spain, High Jump Equipment Suppliers in Argyll and Bute #Athletics #High #Jump #Specialists #Argyll #and, Big 12 said no discussions have taken place, UT-Rio Grande Valley, already a full member, plans to start a football team by 2024, The OVC will team up with the Big South in a new football agreement, The Big South will team up with the OVC to maintain a path to the FCS football playoffs. UNLV has never been good in football, but Las Vegas has become the Pac-12's adopted home and it's hard to ignore the pull of the sports gambling mecca. The wheels of conference realignment are turning again. Right now, Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Louisiana, Louisiana-Monroe, South Alabama, Texas State, and Troy all call the Sun Belt. -- Adam Rittenberg, Future look: Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Utah, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State. Joining: Hampton, Monmouth, North Carolina A&T, Stony Brook. The Big 12 said no discussions have taken place about either school leaving earlier. Even though they are the closest schools to each other and both red birds. UCF and West Virginia are in the same conference as BYU. Southland Conference (10 full members)Houston Baptist Incarnate WordLamar McNeese StateNew Orleans*Nicholls StateNorthwestern StateSoutheastern Louisiana Texas A&M-CommerceTexas A&M-Corpus Christi**New Orleans and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi do not play football. This is the multi-million dollar question. 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