August 4, 2023 – the official end of college athletics as we knew it.
We can look at previous realignment moves, media rights agreements, NIL, etc etc as other landmark events, but it really and truly died Friday.
This isn’t the end it’s the beginning.
When schools like Stanford, Oregon State, California, and Washington State don’t have seats currently at the FBS table this is consolidation of legitmate programs that could make a 12-team playoff given decent not even great resources. Stanford was a top 10 football program less than a decade ago. Oregon State just won 10 games. Washinton State won 11 games in 2018.
The Big 12 is feeling good right now, and they rose from the ashes. Congrats to them, they will exist for a while until the SEC and Big 10 come for them. Don’t think so? Yea SEC Media are already talking about it, which Big 12 schools they’d poach. They’ll be 10s of millions behind the SEC and Big 10. Their schools have already resigned themselves to 2nd tier status.
I wish them the best in the long run.
We aren’t sugarcoating the ACC’s status either. We know all eyes are on that conference, and its position is tenuous at best.
Once the Big 10 and SEC get their fill of whoever, we’re not yet – not even close. Out of those two one will inevitably pull ahead, and then poach from the other? remove less valuable properties? Do the top 30-40 programs join together?
Welcome to another decade of this at least…
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