With the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns bolting for the Southeastern Conference by 2025 at the latest, the wheels of realignment got turning again over the summer. To some, this was the harbinger of college athletics more powerful conferences poaching the most desirable teams, leaving the rest to scrape together what they could to remain even remotely competitive.
Now though, the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten Conference and Pac-12 Conference announced a partnership to try and ensure that doesn’t happen.
The conference commissioners formally announced The Alliance this morning, categorized as a philosophical agreement on how college sports should be governed.