College Sports Realignment 2024: Big Changes in Top Conferences

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00:00A day that we have feared, potentially a day that maybe we have looked forward to for the

00:11last few years. Conference realignment, the big boogeyman in college athletics is now

00:18official as of today, July 1st, 2024. Oklahoma and Texas now members of the Southeastern

00:26Conference. In their wake in the Big 12, we officially welcome Arizona, Arizona State,

00:32Colorado and Utah. The new West Coast newcomers to the Big 10 do not officially join the conference

00:39until August 2nd, 2024, but it is still conference realignment in a big way. And the Atlantic

00:46Coast Conference, no longer just the Atlantic Coast. How about the Pacific Coast in Northern

00:51California, Cal and Stanford now officially member institutions of the ACC, along with

00:58the name of the heart of Texas and Dallas, that being SMU. And the PAC-12 is no longer,

01:05the PAC-2 still exists, the left behind programs of Oregon State and Washington State. DRS,

01:12a day that we have talked about for many years after Oklahoma and Texas made the move back

01:17in the summer of 2021 to announce their departure from the Big 12, to join the SEC that was

01:23followed by UCLA and USC. Last summer, everything with the dissolution of the PAC-12, Oregon

01:30and Washington joining the teams from LA in the Big 10 and the four corner schools making

01:35their way to the Big 12. A day that we have looked at for a very long time is now official.

01:43As we know it forever altered on July 1st, 2024. And there are some pros, but way more

01:50cons that are coming away from this. The pros are the PAC-12 is gone. How are we celebration?

01:54Hallelujah. The worst conference in the history of sports here has gone away. We love that.

01:59But having said that we blew, we love to have, you know, the East coast, West coast bias,

02:04the North versus the South, and we're losing that. And it is a shame at that point because

02:07there were regional rivalries that you love to see. And I can't stand. The one thing that

02:11has to go away next is the Rose Bowl, but that's maybe for another show at this point.

02:15But there was something about the Big 10 matching up against the PAC-12 in the Rose Bowl, even

02:19if it costs those two teams, a national championship, because the rest of the bowl season went along.

02:24That is what it is, but that was still tradition. I just, it's, it gets harder and harder for

02:29years and years and years. You could just name a team and know exactly what their conference

02:34is going to be in and who they actually played. Now you take a look at the Big 10, which I

02:38think is hilarious at this point. Like, honestly, honestly, God, like, why is it the Big 10

02:41with 18 teams in it? Why is it the Big 18, the Big 12? Why is it the Big 16? Like, isn't

02:47it just common sense at this point? Like, I have no idea why that still happens here.

02:50So I'm getting hung up on things that aren't even on the field at this point, which makes

02:54no sense. Now, granted, pretty soon the Big 10 will probably have 36 teams and then it'll

02:58go away as just the Big 10 is only one conference and includes every team in college football.

03:03We're heading down that path. You have to get used to it. Football though, by the way,

03:07this could have been disastrous. Let's just say if we are still in a four-man playoff

03:10or the BCS era, I would be screaming from the top of the heels here. But I got to tell

03:15you guys this one thing, college football season next year is going to be absolutely

03:20phenomenal. All the talk, the conjecture of all these added playoff teams with more meaningful

03:27football, it's going to be so much fun to watch. So even though I say to myself right

03:31now, I can't stand alignment and change, change everything up, get rid of every conference.

03:35You just give me an expanded playoff. It's a win-win for the people out there, Ben, including

03:40myself.