Dawg Sports · Jul 27, 2021
Conference Realignment Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings
Photo by Matthew Pearce/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesFirst, let’s get this out of the way.
It’s happening.
College football is in the midst of a spasm of realignment, and it’s unclear exactly where the wave of change will stop. Texas and Oklahoma have formally advised the Big XII that they plan to leave the league. The smart money has the two headed to the SEC, perhaps sooner than later.
Texas and Oklahoma have won the last two national football championships by Big XII teams. Admittedly both of those were more than 15 years ago, but still. The Sooners have won six straight conference titles. This move essentially guts one of college athletics’ most storied conferences.