In the past two months, four teams moved from the Pac-12 conference to the Big 12 in a huge transformation. University of Colorado Buffaloes started the alteration, with their move back to the Big 12 conference in a major news conference in July 2023. In 2024, the Buffaloes will join UCLA and USC as huge universities, which left the Pac-12 conference. UCLA and USC are moving to the Big 10 conference in Fall 2024. Arizona State University; University of Utah; and the University of AZ will go to Big 12 conference in Fall 2024. Stanford and University of California will leave the Pac-12 conference in Fall 2024, for the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). In addition, the University of Texas and University of Oklahoma are moving to the SEC in Fall 2024. Both universities will move a year earlier in a massive financial plan, which is cleared by all Big 12 conference officials. The inclusion of the two universities will bring the SEC league, to a total of sixteen universities. The SEC league is split into two divisions: West and East. Sixteen universities are split into eleven states, which covers the Midwest; Southeastern; and Southwestern USA. Next, Southern Methodist University is moving from American Athletic Conference (AAC) to the Atlantic Coast Conference in Fall 2024. With the addition of SMU, the ACC is seventeen universities in Fall 2024. The ACC stretches from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast in 2024. University of Pittsburgh; and the University of Louisville are not in any coastal states. Pennsylvania is in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast; and Kentucky is in southeast USA. In this penultimate paragraph, the discussion of the Power Five Conferences continues. The college football realignment shaved the nationwide University sports from five strong conferences, to a Super Four in collegiate athletics. The Pac-12 conference was stripped for parts that were redistributed, to its competitors for financial gain. The most disruptive round of conference realignment at the highest level of college sports appears to be over, for the near future. Two northern california universities, Stanford and Cal-Berkely; joined the ACC out of pure desperation. The Super four conferences are the Big Ten, Big 12; ACC and the Southeastern conference lastly. In closing, 2021 is considered the first year of the three year realignment phase. The Big Ten conference made a transformational shift to the WEST, by adding Southern California and UCLA in Summer 2022. In the Atlantic Coast, the monumental process of expanding its footprint serves to address both short and potential long-term issues. In 2024, the Southern California coast will change the Midwest and mid-atlantic areas by adding the Hollywood culture. All of these conference changes will make the NCAA a huge moneymaker in the next decade, for athletics and academics. Good night from the gridiron!
