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As Auburn football’s conference continues to monopolize college football, the conversation of realignment is one that just won’t go away. Not when two of the nation’s proudest fanbases and the two pillar programs of the Big 12 leave a crumbled conference foundation in their wake.
The Oklahoma and Texas SEC switches will be game-changing for the sport moving forward. It’s inevitable that there will be more steps taken to maximize revenue and realign the conferences to have more apropos names.
The Big 12–a team that previously had ten conferences–is down to eight and is rumored to be folding into the Pac-12.