Back in the early 1990s, former Arkansas head football coach and Athletic Director Frank Broyles famously claimed that the long arc of college football realignment was going to be toward four 16-team super conferences. That was back in the quaint days when the big domino of realignment was of his own Razorbacks moving from the old Southwest Conference, of which they’d been a member for basically their entire football-playing history, into the Southeastern Conference, which wanted to expand to 12 teams to take advantage of a then-little-known NCAA provision which allowed a 12-team conference to split into two divisions and play a conference championship game.
The Alliance is really about killing off the Big 12
