Texas Tech football: Red Raiders survive realignment shuffle again but for how long?

Every few years, NCAA conference realignment boils to the surface and erupts like a Yellowstone geyser spraying a mist of change and panic all over those who care about college athletics. Lately, it seems as if those eruptions are happening with more frequency as hardly a summer goes by without a seismic shift in the landscape. The 2023 round of musical chairs is was perhaps the biggest shuffling of the cards in the history of the NCAA leaving the Big 10 with 18 members, the Big 12 with 16 (both beginning next summer), and the PAC-12 as we knew it just a memory. Fortunately, the Texas Tech football program (and make no mistake, though this drama impacts all sports, it’s primarily based on the money football generates) has landed in a safe spot. But for how long?

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