![]() ![]() The ripple effects of that are now being felt across the country. July 26, 2021: Oklahoma, Texas announce intent to leave Big 12 Conference and join the SEC.The shuffling is part of the fallout stemming from the latest round of conference realignment that kicked off this summer when Oklahoma and Texas decided to bolt the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference. July 30, 2021: Oklahoma, Texas boards unanimously approve move to SEC. 21, 2021: Charlotte, FAU, North Texas, Rice, UAB, and UTSA announce their departure from CUSA to AAC. Jacksonville State and Sam Houston State also announce their move to the FBS ranks – becoming members No. ![]() Nov 5, 2021: Liberty, New Mexico State announce plans to join CUSA. June 15, 2022: AAC approves membership for its six new members, beginning July 1, 2023. June 30, 2022: UCLA, USC announce their intent to leave the Pac-12 and join the Big Ten. 14, 2022: Kennesaw State announces its intent to join the FBS and CUSA, becoming its 134th member. 14, 2022: University of California’s board of regents approve UCLA and USC’s departure to the Big Ten beginning July 1, 2024. 9, 2023: Oklahoma and Texas reached an early exit agreement with Big 12, will begin SEC membership in 2024.ĭec. May 15, 2023: Sports Illustrated’s Ross Dellinger reports that the Pac-12 is looking to add San Diego State, “possibly” SMU.įeb. The Mountain West later denied the request. June 16, 2023: San Diego State announces its intent to leave the Mountain West for the Pac-12. July 1, 2023: 12 schools move conferences, two more (Jacksonville State, Sam Houston State) join the FBS ranks. Kennesaw State becomes the 134th FBS member, joins Conference USA. UCLA and USC leave the Pac-12, join the Big Ten. July 1, 2024: Texas and Oklahoma leave the Big 12, join the SEC. Not to be overshadowed, Kennesaw State also joins the FBS ranks in 2024 and will align with Conference USA. But this number of schools realigning is unprecedented in the modern era. These four movers are the highest-volume programs to move to new conferences since Texas A&M left the Big 12 in 2012. The Pac-12 also struggled to find a TV deal for the better part of two years, further shaking faith in its members. The two LA schools leaving the Pac-12 so far went un-countered, and created real stability questions. While concerns arose around the Big 12, that league effectively filled its membership with BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF. Texas joined the Big 12 in 1996 following the dissolving of the Southwestern Conference while Oklahoma has been a part of the league (and its various forms) since 1928.Ī year after the bombshell SEC announcement, UCLA and USC announced they would be leaving the Pac-12 in favor of the Big Ten beginning in 2024. While 2023 offers the most movement and kicks off the biggest realignment since 2013, 2024 is when the biggest players move.įirst, Oklahoma and Texas depart the Big 12 and join the SEC, agreeing to a $100M buyout to leave early in February, 2023. FAU, Rice, and UTSA also bring strong baseball programs.Ĭonference Realignment 2024: SEC, Big Ten UAB gives the AAC a footprint in the southeast, a market they largely didn’t have prior (save Tulane in New Orleans).įAU comes off a year in which they made a run at the Final Four in men’s basketball and Rice brings academic prowess highly sought by the league. While many of these schools lack the athletic prowess as those departing, most are strategically placed in major TV markets: Charlotte, Miami, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. However, four of the schools turned over their coaching staff this past offseason. These six programs accounted for the last six Conference USA championships in football and the last three champions in basketball. *UAB folded their football program after the 2014 season before reinstating it in 2017.įollowing the departure of three of the biggest programs in the AAC, the league added six new members: Charlotte, FAU, North Texas, Rice, UAB, and UTSA. They also played as a member of the old Mountain West that featured programs like TCU and Utah until 2011. The Cougars boast a Heisman trophy winner (Ty Detmer, 1990) and a national championship in football (1984). Although UCF joined Division I-A in just 1996, the Knights boast one of the best records in the country since 2017.īYU has played as an independent in football and in the West Coast Conference in basketball. Those two schools historically also belonged to major conferences in the Big East and Southwest, respectively. ![]() Aside from football, Cincinnati and Houston bring a storied basketball program to the country’s top league. Mountain West, WAC, Skyline, MSAC, Rocky MountainīYU, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF joined the Big 12 starting July 1, 2023. The following moves include all sports unless otherwise noted. The first Phase of the massive realignment comes with the Big 12, AAC, and CUSA, beginning July 1. Conference Realignment 2023: Big 12, American, Conference USA ![]()
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