Texas and Oklahoma announced today they plan to depart the Big 12. And reporting suggests they will be joining the SEC as the newest members of college football’s premier conference.
This development and the prospect of a new round of conference realignment begs a troubling question for fans of minor P5 programs like Boston College: Will we get left behind?
Let’s go through a thought exercise on what conference realignment could look like and how BC could fit into the process.
The ACC has no real reason to start kicking teams out
If you’re on any sort of social media and follow national college athletics accounts, you’re bound to run into Southerners and others who constantly suggest that the ACC should kick Boston College out of the conference.