The day we thought might come back in the fall of 2016 with talks of the Big 12 expanding could finally be coming home to roost in the upcoming season of collegiate sports, though on a much smaller scale.
Reports have surfaced that The University of Connecticut plans to join the Big East Conference in all sports except for football effective 2020, leaving the door wide open for a number of options, both for UConn as a program and many Group of Five conferences as a collective.
The American Conference has elected not to keep UConn football as an affiliate (a la Navy,) instead telling them to hit the road due to poor performance and attendance numbers.