Conference realignment has thrown the entire country into disarray scheduling-wise, with teams now facing conference foes on the opposite coast on a regular basis. It's made sense, because it's made dollars and sense, though.
Conference realignment may not have seen its most drastic jump yet, if On3's Andy Staples is to be believed. Staples claimed that if the Michigan Wolverines and USC Trojans wanted to leave the Big Ten over the infusion of private equity dollars, the SEC would "happily welcome" them.
"There aren’t many schools that could pull off independence. But Michigan and USC probably are two of them," Staples prefaced before saying, "They are not among the ones you’d want to play chicken with.