From a football standpoint, Boise State, with its decades of success, makes for an appealing option. 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. So adding these six may end up devaluing the American, at least for now. He needs to show improvement. How willing would the Pac-12 and Big 12 be to sacrifice their longstanding brands in favor of a joint venture? The MAC has been the quietest of the Group of 5 leagues during the latest realignment flurry as it hasn't had to ward off any suitors. Future look: Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, James Madison, Louisiana, Louisiana-Monroe, Marshall, Old Dominion, South Alabama, Southern Miss, Texas State, Troy. Exclusive Highlights and Recruiting The conference did suffer some attrition, with Little Rock announcing in December that it would move to the OVC in 2022-23. 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. Mullen had been an assistant at Florida and a successful head coach at Mississippi State, and it was fair for Stricklin, who had also come from Starkville, to think Mullen could win big at Florida with access to even better recruits. The problem is those are not the right schools to pair with each other initially from a geographical sense. The news of USC and UCLA departing the Pac-12 and joining the Big Ten shook the college athletics world when it broke on the morning of June 30th. The CAA, also adding Monmouth (MAAC) and Hampton (Big South) in 2022-23, is reportedly still considering further expansion. All four schools have the market size and athletic tradition necessary to join that league. What Stricklin didnt realize was Mullen thought he could still win with almost the same level of recruits he had at Mississippi State. Illinois-Chicago's departure for the Missouri Valley, USI announced it would join the OVC on Feb. 9. do not seem like a practical or desired fit. Future look: Charlotte, East Carolina, FAU, Memphis, North Texas, Rice, SMU, South Florida, Temple, UTSA, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB, Wichita State. The recruiting has been solid (the 2023 class finished ranked No. And it's no secret that the American went after several schools from the Mountain West -- including Boise State -- before taking on its new members from Conference USA. (Both recently arranged to leave.) And an average SEC team would also be favored. Future look: Eastern Illinois, Lindenwood, Little Rock, Morehead State, SIU Edwardsville, Southeast Missouri State, Southern Indiana, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, UT Martin. Jacksonville State and Liberty will each end short stints with the ASUN when they move to Conference USA in 2023. So Id be willing to bet that a Top 25 college team would beat the best XFL or USFL team more often than not. Napier may need to hope whoever drafts Anthony Richardson sits him this year rather than risk having him look like the second coming of Josh Allen. If Missouri had waited, would it have gotten the Big Tens invite in late 2012 instead of Maryland or Rutgers? This meant the men's basketball Dukes (who started the season 9-2, including a win over Virginia) and a fourth-place CAA women's basketball team were unable to earn their way into the NCAA tournament in the school's final go-round in the league. 2023 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved. Where the loose partnership risks ineffectiveness is in the absence of a signed contract. Future look: Eastern Washington, Idaho, Idaho State, Montana, Montana State, Northern Arizona, Northern Colorado, Portland State, Sacramento State, Weber State. Importantly, the hypothetical BigPac would hit the open market as a prized broadcasting and streaming product.

Included among potential (and necessary) targets for MEAC expansion is conference-shopping Chicago State, though football-playing members for a conference down to six gridiron members will have to be the major priority for MEAC stakeholders. Hugh Freeze this week threw out the idea of Auburn and Alabama playing UAB and Troy. Hes had two tries at this, but will Florida AD Scott Stricklin face major pressure if Billy Napier and the Gators football program produces another average season this fall?

Gonzaga and Fresno State should also be on the radar. As usual, its primarily a football move, but it affects college basketball teams as February 18, 2023. But so did Will Muschamp, Jeremy Pruitt and Derek Dooley. It would be the death of the athletic department as we know it. But I havent heard the idea of playing teams from the XFL (or throw in the USFL). Oklahoma and Texas announced in July 2021 that they would leave the Big 12 for the SEC in July 2025. Zachary Neel. He also questioned both schools' decisions to leave, saying it would be more difficult for the Longhorns and Sooners to have as much success in the SEC. Overall, I think the Four Corners schools are the ones to watch in this, particularly the Arizona schools. (Assuming theyve been paying attention.) Measure E, if passed, could be the ticket to upgrades for Fresno State that would at least boost the school's candidacy to join a Power Five conference as an expansion candidate. Four teams that will try, Ex-Huskers coach Joseph's assault case dropped.

Seth joined The Athletic in 2018 from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and also covered C-USA loses programs to conferences greater in the hierarchy and plucks from conferences lower. Current MWC members bring in about $4 million annually from the conferences media rights agreement; thats enough to cover head football coach Jonathan Smiths contract, but nothing else. Fresno State does have an existing Big 12 connection via its equestrian program, which joined as an affiliate member of the league several years ago. First, name, image and likeness (NIL) legislation passed, then the talks of expanding the College Football Playoff bracket to 12 teams came about, and now serious Its not a no for the Ducks and Huskies, who would likely be the only remaining Pac-12 schools in contention for a spot in the new super conference. Ive been pretty transparent and intentional that wed like that fourth time zone to create more value for our media partners. Member-Only Message Boards. FAU will pair well with USF, while Charlotte, UTSA and UAB have shown great flashes of potential behind their dynamic head coaches. Get the fastest scores, stats, news, LIVE videos, and more. In the latest edition of "How the Conferences Turn," the American added six schools from Conference USA -- Alabama-Birmingham, Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Rice and Texas-San Antonio -- and the Group of 5 conferences all were forced to reassess their situations and decide where to go from here. The league's makeup is "solid," a source said, and, unlike some other leagues, MAC schools are fairly similar in location, structure and budget. Analysis: The Cougars are another team that could be left without a chair in the realignment talks, and they Even in the NFL, where coaches and rosters turn over every year, there is enough continuity that it is still a team. Or it could be greeted with a collective Nah.. But whatever Richardson is doing in the NFL, if Napier can have a season where Florida is competitive against a very tough schedule (there also are trips to South Carolina, LSU and Missouri), then 8-4 is OK and 9-3 may be fantastic. Jump to: ACC | Big 12 | Big Ten | Pac-12 | SEC | American | Conference USA/Sun Belt | MAC | Mountain West, Additions: BYU, Central Florida, Cincinnati, Houston, Future look: Baylor, BYU, Central Florida, Cincinnati, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas Tech, West Virginia, Go all-access with UCF football as new head coach Gus Malzahn and the Knights charge into the 2021 college football season with hopes of further establishing the program as one of the country's best. But that doesn't necessarily mean they won't find a way to leave before then. "That's a silly part of it. Any list you have any top 5 ? Sports Reputation, Footprint, Commitment Are Attractive By Slurms Mac Court Aug 6, 2022, We rated chances for the top 10, including Arch Manning, The latest in 2024 college football recruiting: Newest commits, upcoming visits, Inside the many ways to construct a college football roster, Rankings for the 2023 NFL draft: Top prospects at every position from Kiper, McShay, Miller, Reid, Sources: Southern Miss to Sun Belt a 'done deal', Six schools accept invitations to join American. The additions, particularly in Texas, are meant to solidify the league's Western flank and also draw in larger media markets.

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. A week later, the league announced that it would add Stonehill College of Easton, Massachusetts, with the Skyhawks beginning their transition from Division II in 2022. Common sense prevailed and neither school is leaving for now. San Diego State is in a major market, is getting a new stadium and has real growth potential in the wake of the Chargers' departure for Los Angeles. The OVC will lose three programs in 2022-23, with Austin Peay (ASUN), Belmont (Missouri Valley) and Murray State (Missouri Valley) leaving a conference that Exclusive Highlights and Recruiting Interviews Instead he got to work to stabilize his conference, which has been the standard-bearer for Group of 5 leagues in the College Football Playoff era.

The ACC had an AD meeting Friday morning via Zoom that was scheduled in response to Thursdays realignment news.

He said the Pac-12 is very close to securing a new media rights deal, but he is well aware that one more team leaving the conference could set in motion a domino effect. Future look: Gonzaga, Loyola Marymount, Pacific, Pepperdine, Portland, Saint Mary's, San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Diego. In the first major shot across the realignment bow, Oklahoma and Texas announced in July 2021 that they would leave the Big 12 for the SEC in the summer of 2025. Thus, a merger between the remaining Pac-12 and new-look Big 12 has to be the supreme option for Oregon State. All picks and predictions are suggestions only. Although Hartford's move to D-III is not expected to be completed until 2025, outgoing America East commissioner Amy Huchthausen told the Lowell Sun in July that 2021-22 would be the school's final year in the conference after a 38-season affiliation. For one thing, Leary could be pretty good in his own right. Bryant, a member of the NEC, was officially named as a member of America East on March 29 and will begin play in the 2022-23 season. Scheduling implications may include guaranteed non-conference matchups between member schools and a football championship game of sorts to be held in Las Vegas. Proponents of an Oregon State move to the Big 12, for example, must recognize that the Beaver brand is a low-priority addition in comparison to other available targets.
Oklahoma and Texas are headed to the SEC -- by at least the start of the 2025 season and maybe sooner -- and the SEC seems content becoming college football's first 16-team super conference for now. What we've found with the latest maneuvering is that there might not be anyone lower in the hierarchy anymore. This round was focused on the Group of 5 schools but resulted from the reverberations of the Big 12's plucking the Cincinnati Bearcats, UCF Knights and Houston Cougars from the American Athletic Conference in September. But its hard to argue right now that Missouri isnt also behind TCU, Oklahoma State and Baylor, as well as incoming Cincinnati and maybe BYU. They appealed to the league as like-minded institutions that fit the size and scope of the current membership, and as an added bonus over many of the original schools since the time the league was founded, they actually wanted to be there. There are fewer slices to go around, but with the already small metaphorical pie shrinking by a figure in the ballpark of thirty percent, those bites would not fill the bellies of the athletic department budgets. U of A and Arizona State would be stellar fits in an even larger Big 12. And those moves were the Big 12's reaction to the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners jumping ship for the SEC. The NEC is guaranteed a new champion in men's basketball in 2022-23, as Bryant announced March 29 it was leaving the conference for the America East. March Madness Pain Index: Whose 2023 tournament loss hurt most? 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. It will also be the league's final year with Oklahoma and Texas as members, as those two depart for the SEC in 2024. This is a program that came one win away from making the BCS championship in 2007 and won the SEC East in 2013 and 14. In fact, its generally assumed the school was angling for the Big Ten during the 2010/2011 realignment wars, and that only when it didnt look like an invitation was forthcoming did Missouri agree to accompany Texas A&M to the SEC. The Pac-12 would immediately bolster its value as a media product, although not to the extent that it would have by retaining the Southern California schools, and the ACC may be able to convince ESPN to re-negotiate its current broadcast rights contract, which runs all the way through 2036. ", university president Saul Jimenez-Sandoval reportedly confirmed via, Fresno State has been linked to expansion rumors concerning both the Big 12 and Pac-12 within the past year. BYU has a long track record of football success, with a national appeal and recruiting base. Jumping ship is a near necessity for those who can pull it off, and Oregon State is not among that group. But after Cincinnati, Houston and UCF left, they would have been leaving for an inferior conference with more travel and no clear benefits.

In the midst of spring practice, you all asked excellent questions about the programs at Florida, South Carolina and Kentucky, playing spring games against XFL teams, and what future SEC games we should look forward to. Still, work will have to be done with the new additions. Whatever. The most logical play for the Big 12 remains going after Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah. SCNext Top 25: A new No. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. sales tax initiative "Measure E" that would benefit academic and athletics projects at Fresno State, saidthere is interest onthe Big 12'send regarding the Bulldogs as the leaguelooks to establish a presence on the West Coast, per, Fresno County voters opted against Measure E this past November by a 47.14-52.86 vote, per. The Big 12 Conference has shown interest in Fresno State University as a potential expansion candidate, university president Saul Jimenez-Sandoval reportedly confirmed via The San Joaquin Valley Sun. Is Brandon Miller playing vs. Maryland? Future league footprints for each affected conference are included, as well as the latest on the timetable for the forthcoming moves. The loss of the last two historical powers from the league's roster significantly weakened its appeal in upcoming media rights negotiations, after it was already rebuffed on extension talks while Texas and Oklahoma were still in the Big 12. Its also an intriguing question who would win. ), Georgia at Oklahoma (the game we arent getting in 2023), Texas at LSU (the return game, after LSU played at Texas in 2019, was canceled because of the COVID season. In the additions category, the CAA announced on Jan. 25 that it would be adding Hampton (Big South), Monmouth (MAAC) and Stony Brook (America East), effective in 2022-23. It blends with a fan base that has an edge to it sometimes a counterproductive edge, but an edge that gives it some meaning. An intrasquad game is double the player reps you would get playing somebody else. Lamar, which was previously a member of the Southland from 1963-1987 and 1999-2021, is scheduled to return for the 2022-23 season. While USC and UCLA are leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten in 2024, there is a chance the Big Ten may have initially preferred Oregon over the Bruins in joining the Les metteurs TNT, leurs caractristiques et leurs zones de couverture, Rception de la TNT en maison individuelle, Rception de la TNT en collectif (immeubles, lotissements, htels), La TNT dans les tablissements recevant du public (htels, hpitaux), Les rcepteurs avec TNT intgre (crans plats), Les adaptateurs pour recevoir la TNT gratuite en SD ou HD, Les terminaux pour les offres de la TNT payante, Les autres chanes et services du satellite, cble, TV par Internet, Les offres incluant les chanes de la TNT, Le matriel (dcodeurs, paraboles, accessoires ), La technique et la technologie de la TV par satellite, La technique et la technologie de la TV par le cble, La rception TV par Internet et rseaux mobile (3G/4G/5G), L'actualit des offres TV par Internet et rseaux mobile, Les offres TV des rseaux mobile 3G/4G/5G, La technique et la technologie de la TV par ADSL et fibre, La technique et la technologie de la TV sur les rseaux mobile, Meta-Topic du forum de la radio Numrique, Les zones de couverture et la rception DAB+. Mark Stoops has built a really solid program, but in order to break through the Wildcats may need to rely less on coaching and more on getting top-notch talent: Even with Levis, last years team was 26th in the 247Sports overall team talent rankings. The Big 12 Conference has shown interest in Fresno State University as a potential expansion candidate, university president Saul Jimenez-Sandoval reportedly Should disaster strike and Oregon State gets left in the dust, however, it would find itself on the same footing as the Utah States, Colorado States, and San Jos States of the world. Conference realignment has become an increasingly frustrating attempt to squeeze dollars out of a system that has consolidated resources at the top. The Big 12 Conference has shown interest in Fresno State University as a potential expansion candidate, university president Saul Jimenez-Sandoval reportedly confirmed via The San Joaquin Valley Sun. Updated: 8:46 AM MDT July 6, 2022 BOISE, Idaho Wednesday Weekly: July 6, 2022. But a wise man once told me: Always lead with realignment, even if totally speculative, hypothetical and not happening.

Extra Points reported that Division II Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina was a potential expansion target for the ASUN, and the school and league made the marriage, which will begin in 2022-23, official on May 10th. The Big 12 needs to get ahead of conference realignment for a strong future. Assessing Oregon State's Position in the Conference Realignment Landscape By Carter Bahns Jul 6, 2022 143 The news of USC and UCLA departing the Pac-12 and As with anything, a good season is more about feel than actual record. A new-look Pac-12, -14, -16, etc. "Maybe it's a story that needs to be written," Bowlsby said. Beamer just needs to stay on the good side of that fan base and show that in Year 3 he still has things progressing in the right direction. NC State UCF+; Big Ten Conference Realignment. The league's other move, announced in September, was the addition of Austin Peay from the OVC for the 2022-23 season. 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