June 25, 2024
By Brett Daniels, Mike Farrell Sports: College Football has been going through conference realignment since the sport’s inception in the late 19th century. The SEC has added and subtracted teams since 1940 (want to win a bar bet? Name the 3 teams that have left the SEC. Georgia Tech, Tulane and Sewanee). The Big 8 and Southwest conferences merged to become the Big 12. The Pac 12 (RIP) started life as the Pac 8.
The biggest wave of realignment occurred between 2010-2014 with the SEC expanding to 14 schools (added Missouri and Texas A&M), the Big 10 expanding to 14 schools (adding Nebraska, Maryland, and Rutgers), the ACC growing to 15 schools (losing Maryland and adding Syracuse, Boston College, Pittsburgh, Louisville, and Miami), the Big 12 contracted to 10 teams (losing Colorado to the Pac-12 and Nebraska to the Big 10), and the Pac-10 moving to 12 teams (added Colorado and Utah).
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