July 1, 2023 is quite a consequential day for the sport of college football.
An astounding 14 teams relocate to new conferences in a single flip of the calendar — making it the busiest moving day of 21st century conference realignment. The FBS expands from 131 to 133 teams this season as two FCS programs received CUSA call-ups. Those call-ups and the rest of the realignment moves can all be traced to the trickle-down effect created by the SEC adding Oklahoma and Texas — a move which doesn’t officially transpire until July 1, 2024.
The ever-evolving hodgepodge that is the college football conference landscaping can be confusing with all the simultaneous changes.