Ten years ago this month, the last great spasm of realignment began shaking the college sports world. TCI has learned the conference’s athletic departments have discussed amongst themselves the possibility of realigning, but within the conference. The proposed conference realignment gives Maryland some familiar opponents, such as Big Ten foe Penn State while the Terps' latest ACC 'rival' in Pittsburgh rejoins the league. The Sun Belt runs as far west as San Marcos, TX (Texas State) and out to Coastal Carolina on the East Coast. Utah comes crawling back. NC State is a lonely Carolina to balance the divisions. In 2025, the Big 12’s grant of rights, which ensures the conference owns each member’s TV rights, expires.It’s possible we see another round of realignment then. However, given Jim Harbaugh's little riff with Luke Fickell, a natural new rivalry with Cincinnati sounds plausible in this new conference.In my opinion, the conference is actually quite weak. For Michigan, that's where the rivalry for The Little Brown Jug returns.

Schools out west would no longer have to worry whether their league was strong enough to compete for a playoff spot. Conference USA stretches from El Paso, TX (UTEP) to Virginia (Old Dominion). There already are plenty of blowouts on a weekly basis. Change isn’t easy, especially in college football. The advantages are abundant.The complaints about conference schedules would disappear. And how about these regular nonconference meetings: Oklahoma-Nebraska, Texas-Arkansas and Pittsburgh–West Virginia. And the endless carping from conferences that play more league games than others would be silenced. For this edition of the Big (…) Also NAU and UNLV play for the Hoover Dam trophy now.All the remaining Eastern teams go here. The biggest lament most schools in the Group of Five have is lack of regular opportunity to compete on the same level with the big boys. Lesser conferences followed suit, scrambling for financial viability.A decade later, it’s time to blow up what was done and start over. South Dakota State replaces the dearly missed Nebraska and gives Minnesota a fun out of conference rival. But they went ahead and broke the mold a decade ago, so this isn’t exactly sacrilege. There is not a lot of office or barber shop banter in, say, Orlando between Florida and Missouri fans when the Gators and Tigers play; there sure would be when the Gators play Central Florida. Win your league, get a shot at the national title. Dormant, across-the-river rivalries renewed via nonconference matchups: Louisville-Cincinnati, Kentucky-Indiana, Missouri-Illinois.The flaws in this system are obvious. The Gophers would pose a threat, but within the conference, it's only OSU.Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh had been pushing for a fall 2020 season and issued a response after football was canceled.The Big Ten opted to formally postpone the fall sports season, which includes football, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic after releasing its schedule six days ago.After a strong freshman campaign, Giles Jackson is poised to see an increase in usage for the fall, which makes sense given his penchant for making plays.After yesterday, people all over the country just want answers.Michigan had a very nice linebacker haul in 2020 and Cornell Wheeler was a big part of it.After landing an offer from Michigan, 2022 defensive end Jihaad Campbell said U-M is on his short list of schools to visit.As news regarding the Big Ten continues to pile up, reports say that the conference's presidents will vote on the fall sports season later tonight.The Michigan basketball program landed a PWO commit last week when Illinois guard Ian Burns issued his verbal pledge to the Wolverines. It’s just that simple. But in this model, they have to go somewhere to maintain FBS membership. Michigan vs. Minnesota is the first and oldest trophy game in college football history, so preserving it is important, even though U-M is up 75-25-3 in the series.Forde placed Penn State, Maryland and Rutgers in the Yankee Conference, where it would regularly compete against Boston College, Pitt, Syracuse and Navy.Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa all got put into the Great Midwest Conference to battle Iowa State, Missouri, Kansas State, North Dakota State, Kansas, Western, Eastern and Central Michigan.Illinois and Northwestern got tossed in with Notre Dame, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisville and others in the Mid-American Conference.Michigan already has two very strong conference rivals within Forde's new layout in Michigan State and Ohio State and obviously Minnesota was worked in as well. Mid-Major Conference Realignment Robert Morris to the Horizon League. These moves ended major conference realignment in college football. [jwplayer u0lOK4IV] Early last week USA TODAY Sports writer Jori Epstein produced a report in collaboration with The Intercollegiate.

The conference once again lost members in 2012 when Missouri and Texas A&M joined the SEC. Realignment news is currently going on in NCAA Basketball. It would bring back former conference rivalries such as Houston, Rice, SMU while maintaining the Texas-Oklahoma Red River Rivalry. The Atlantic Coast Conference wandered nearly 1,000 miles inland. The old school (2011) B1G, but nicely organized by time zones.Utah gets demoted because screw em. Rivalries preserved by nonconference games: Alabama-Tennessee, USC–Notre Dame, Georgia-Auburn, Clemson–Florida State, Penn State–Ohio State, Nevada-UNLV. Nah. Jon Rothstein reported it on June 4th and doubled down on his report this week, reporting on rumblings coming from Robert Morris’ current conference foes. The Great College Sports Realignment that began in 2010 can be improved upon, by simultaneously contracting and expanding. A four-star prospect in the 2021 (…)In a disheartening day for the college football community, Texas is receiving optimistic news from a recruiting standpoint. (…)[jwplayer u0lOK4IV] Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger is well-known around the college football community, but his talent and production (…)[jwplayer u0lOK4IV] Amid all the uncertainty and misinformation surrounding the upcoming college football season, Texas has been (…)[jwplayer VjsfzEz0-er0jUifI] While the news swirls from source to source regarding the “will the Big Ten cancel” saga, the Big 12 (…)[jwplayer u0lOK4IV] Each morning Longhorns Wire will share the top stories from around the Big 12 Conference.

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