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"Yet college football forced us down this path two years ago. When Texas and Oklahoma committed to join the SEC, realignment became an existential threat to all of the other conferences. It used to be that every laughable new geographical alliance simply added girth to familiarity. The altered leagues still had the same markers. You could pretend the potbellies on the SEC, ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12 were an unavoidable part of the need to grow in the sports marketplace. It wasn’t as if the movement of Missouri or Louisville or Nebraska or West Virginia or Utah changed the identity of any of these conferences.

Then the two preeminent programs in the Big 12 bounced. A year later, the Pac-12 lost Los Angeles. Despite the College Football Playoff preparing to expand to 12 teams, there’s an access issue among the so-called Power Five conferences. The SEC and Big Ten have reestablished themselves as the true power brokers, and everyone else is trying to survive. The ACC is in decent shape, for now, because it has a grant-of-rights TV deal through 2036 complicating any school’s wandering eye. That left the Big 12 and Pac-12 with a warning: Pivot or perish."

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Why are folks saying there will only be 2 conferences? It was always envisioned to have 4 mega conferences to sit atop Div 1 football.
 

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