Joining: Lindenwood, Little Rock, Southern Indiana, Leaving: Austin Peay, Belmont, Murray State. Mountain West Conference (11 full members)Air ForceBoise State Colorado StateFresno StateNevadaNew MexicoSan Diego StateSan Jose State UNLVUtah StateWyoming*Hawaii is a football-only affiliate member. Conference realignment appears to be on pause for the moment. Sports > WSU football Commentary: Where might Washington State find itself after this round of conference realignment? BUT . If conference realignment realizes itself via merger, a Pac-12/Big 12 hybrid would present a viable Super League of sorts to go up against the Big Ten and SEC should those two juggernauts expand even more. Where the loose partnership risks ineffectiveness is in the absence of a signed contract. Tours of the Nike campus by visiting players would no doubt be a sought-after highlight of trips to play the Ducks. The AAC will formally welcome Charlotte . If Oregon and Washington do leave for the Big Ten, the Pac-12s survival probably depends on whether Stanford and California stay or go. Joining: Belmont, Illinois Chicago, Murray State, The MVC grew from 10 full members to 12 on July 1, 2022. Lots of college football writers and analysts have predictions on which schools will move in realignment. Sam Houston (from the Western Athletic Conference) and Jacksonville State (from the ASUN Conference) began transitions from Division I FCSin 2022 and will join Conference USA in July 2023. Its a waiting game for everyone except university brass, conference leadership, and major media companies. Four schools that would make sense in the Big 12 from the Pac-12 would include Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, and Colorado, a school that left the Big 12 for the Pac-10 when the conference expanded . Moving day will be July 1, 2023. LATEST NEWS. Ohio Valley Conference (10 full members)Eastern Illinois *Lindenwood*Morehead StateSEMO*SIU-EdwardsvilleSouthern IndianaTennessee State*Tennessee Tech*UA Little RockUT Martin**denotes football members, Pac-12 Conference (10 full members)ArizonaArizona State CaliforniaColoradoOregonOregon StateStanfordUtahWashingtonWashington State, Patriot League (10 full members)AmericanArmyBoston UniversityBucknell*Colgate*Holy Cross*Lafayette*Lehigh*Loyola MarylandNavy*denotes football members, along with football-only affiliate members Fordham and Georgetown, Southeastern Conference (16 full members)AlabamaArkansasAuburnFloridaGeorgiaKentuckyLSUMississippiMississippi StateMissouriOklahomaSouth Carolina TennesseeTexasTexas A&MVanderbilt. Thats great short-term, but long-term its not going to be good when they have to re-up again with media rights. This couldnt have come at a worse time for the Beavers. When the conference realignment dominoes start falling, the college sports landscape can change in a hurry. The league held at 10 on July 1, 2022 as three departures were offset by Little Rock joining from the Sun Belt and Southern Indiana and Lindenwood moving up from Division II. Arguably the most important duty of a head coach is hiring the right. Its football program hasnt competed at the national level in a decade, and its media market is too small to move the needle, rendering it an afterthought for other power conferences. July 5, 2022 6:04 am CT When conference realignment moved front and center in college football discussions a year ago, many wondered if the Big 12 would survive the loss of its two most. Little Rock and UT-Arlington, the conferences two non-football playing members, departed for conferences that are less football-centric. Oregon State would continue to reap the financial benefits of power conference membership, which would measure much larger in a partnership than it would if the Pac went about its business alone. After the news came that both USC and UCLA were planning to leave the conference and join the Big Ten starting in 2024, the door is now open for other teams to follow suit. With the tremendous growth in finances and greater ease of travel, conferences have spread out with much less regard for proximity. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Ultimately an invitation for Oregon or other current Pac-12 members to consider joining a different Conference may never come, but its not hard to see why such an invitation would be proffered to the Ducks. The B16 goes to a 10 game conference schedule. The Beavers would boast top-of-the-line facilities, short-term talent superiority, and other advantages, but the long-term outlook is much more bleak. Oregon State and Washington State . The Big 12 has four teams coming in during the 2023 season, but has to make sure none of their teams join the Pac-12. FSU and Miami both rank 55th in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings, which would put them in the middle of the conference. A:Those two are in the most precarious position. Odds & lines subject to change. You can listen to the entire 35-minute podcast discussion with Brandon Marcello below. Jumping ship is a near necessity for those who can pull it off, and Oregon State is not among that group. The Beavers will host the Trojans at Reser Stadium on September 24th, less than three months from now, in what is likely to be the final meeting between the squads in Corvallis for the foreseeable future. The 2022 college football season is still a few months away, but college football fans across the country are concerned about the current state of college football. Lamar will return to the Southland from the WAC in 2023, upping Southland membership to 10 teams. As for the other schools, its not likely the SEC will come calling. The worst case? Who is to say that the playoff committee doesnt change their criteria? UTSA has had five winning seasons, including 12 wins in 2021,. A Conference should still want to have more than 2 teams in a larger geographic area in part due to travel and TV visibility needs but perhaps more importantly for recruiting purposes. After the 2nd Round, once a team loses in the National Championship Tournament, they will be placed in a consolation bracket to compete for a spot in a New Year's Six Bowl. The Pac-12 had done nothing but expand until the announced departure of the Trojans and Bruins, growing from eight to ten to twelve universities over the last few decades. Nothing will change until the summer of 2024. The conference lost one of its better mens basketball programs in Loyola but gained two perennially strong programs with Belmont and Murray State, while keeping a presence in Chicago with UIC. 16. Considering it's May and there typically isn't a whole lot going on in the college football world at this time of year, it's no surprise that satellite camps and conference realignment have. Thats quite a fall from grace. The SEC started this big round of conference realignment a year ago by bringing in Oklahoma and Texas - two big national brands with storied football programs. It would be a sad, sad day to see schools like Stanford and Cal elite academic institutions with rich football histories and a celebrated rivalry relegated to mid-major status. "They will change criteria as they see how this new system goes along, and also what college football looks like conference to conference.". Can OSU find a path to national relevance in the new era, or will it be left behind as television money and brand recognition drive the bus? It would be the death of the athletic department as we know it. In this scenario, Oregon State could see out the momentum its athletic department has created without changing contexts. USC, UW and Oregon are the three Pac-12 schools with at least six games viewed by more than 4 million people in the past five years. Duck fans are known to travel well to watch their teams, particularly in football. Many different scenarios have emergedeverything from the PAC-12 adding teams to merging with another conference to being completely gutted and folding altogether. Hartford could leave as early as this summer as it begins its transition down to Division III. Spencer McLaughlin contributes videos to SuperWest Sports and is the host of "Locke Miller covers College Basketball and College Football as well as Formu Eli writes about Oregon football and other sports for SuperWest Sports. Also being reported that Oregon and Washington are speaking to the B12. Even before Dodds report, the conference announced it would explore expansion, so there are some wheels already in motion here. Not all schools are easy to fit into a set of realignment predictions, however. Joining the Big 12 gives the Cougars a home for all sports. Please check your email for a confirmation. While the powers that be work on their next move, the rest of us wait in limbo, speculating about what the future may hold. (Murray State will also join the Missouri Valley Football Conference beginning in 2023.). This former USC commit's career didn't pan out the way he hoped for in Miami with Mario Cristobal. Still, that might be the best option given that the American Athletic Conference has now lost virtually all its star power with Houston, Cincinnati, and UCF all gone. Theyre helpless and utterly dependent on other schools and other events. The Big 12 has made it to where theyll be in a much stronger position potentially whenever the next contract comes open. Something along those lines could take shape between the Pac-12 and ACC, per Dodd. It has also been heavily reported that if the Big Ten went back to the Pac-12, it would target Oregon, Washington, Cal, and Stanford. Find it at our Team News Feed. The possibility of a merge has already been floated weve even written about it and if you watch Survivor, you know that once The Merge happens, the game moves fast. Bryants football team joined the Big South as an affiliate member. If that does happen, could whats left of the ACC try to pick off a West Virginia or a Kansas? Knight is both an Oregon undergraduate and a Stanford Business School graduate. Sports Reputation, Footprint, Commitment Are Attractive. If USC and UCLA can do it, so can Oregon and Washington. Remember, Boise State was in the Big East for football before it ultimately decided to stay in the Mountain West. In a previous life, he worked as a social media strategist and copywriter, handling accounts ranging from sports retail to luxury hotels and financial technology. Clemson to the SEC sounds like an obvious move. It also might be the best available option for the above schools. Its probably the only path OSU has to inclusion in a super-conference world. Glad you asked. Oregon should join another conference should the opportunity present itself, 247Sports national college football writer Brandon Marcello said on Monday's episode . By Erik Skopil 11 hours ago. Conference USA will experience the biggest changes with 9 schools leaving and 5 joining. Reports have suggested that new Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark would like to add some combination of. American Athletic Conference (14 full members)CharlotteEast CarolinaFlorida AtlanticMemphis North Texas RiceSouth FloridaSMUTempleTulaneTulsaUAB UTSAWichita State**Wichita State does not play football. "One of the Top 100 Sports News Websites To Follow.". It doesnt seem likely. Then it was Oliver Fisher, a 6-5, 225 pounder from Sherwood, Oregon. You can have an 8 game conference schedule, a championship game, and still play every team every other year. Incarnate Word had announced its intention to leave the Southland for the WAC, but chose instead to remain in the Southland. JohnsSeton HallVillanovaXavier. The Big South will team up with the OVC to maintain a path to the FCS football playoffs. . They have to wait and hope. Even though the current agreement is to provide conference champions from six major conferences automatic entry into the tournament, there is no guarantee that those guidelines will remain in place if a conference like the Pac-12 continues to weaken. As much as brands like Colorado State and San Diego State could use the larger media markets, teams may be more hesitant than aggressive. Conference realignment is back. There are fewer slices to go around, but with the already small metaphorical pie shrinking by a figure in the ballpark of thirty percent, those bites would not fill the bellies of the athletic department budgets. It certainly looks like the end of the Pac-12 is on the horizon. Two flagship members of the Pac-12 will leave for the Big Ten in 2024. * 21+ (19+ CA-ONT) (18+ NH/WY). Conference realignment[edit] Main article: 2021-22 NCAA conference realignment Two schools are playing their first FBS seasons in 2023. By the time it was over, 20 schools had agreed to switch conference affiliations over the next several years. Until then, Oregon State will continue to compete against USC and UCLA as members of the Pac-12. (Cal has the same problem.) When conference realignment has come up in the past, the common refrain has been "look at the list of AAU schools and that's who the Big Ten will target." Former Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney said that AAU membership was "an important part of who (the Big Ten is)," back in 2010. Campbell will join as a full member in 2023, bringing the full membership up to 14. If there was an opportunity for Oregon to join the Big 10 or to join the SEC, they should jump at it immediately," said Marcello when asked about a hypothetical departure for either league. Even if the Big Ten isnt imminently planning to add even more members, its reasonable to think that they will soon. The main potential suitors seem to be the Big 12 and the Big 10 but even that is no certainty. Rotate the other 10 on a 2 year cycle. Heres a breakdown by conference. They wake up soon and find that theyve been abandoned by their rival universities and see Arizona/ASU, Colorado/Utah gone to the Big 12. Short-term the Pac-12 is going to be good financially and competitively, but long-term 10 to 15 years and beyond Oregon would be best served to be in another conference. The teams in that conference would be: Abilene ChristianAustin PeayCentral ArkansasEastern KentuckyNorth Alabama Southern UtahStephen F. AustinTarleton State Utah Tech UTRGV. There (). Come 2023, the conference will have 11 full members, 5 of which are football-playing members. Their fates are tethered to the action happening in front of them. Washington State and Oregon State are in serious trouble, with only two options: Remain in the reconfigured Pac-12, or lose their Power Five status. Leaving: Jacksonville State, Kennesaw State, Liberty. "There is another report out there that the Big Ten is also looking at Florida State and Miami, and at that point would be a monopoly of . Not many transfers truly sting, but this one does. These last may actually be reasons why a suitor might not want Oregon in their Conference. The Beavers appear poised to jump into the top tier of the Pac-12 in football while maintaining success in the Olympic sports, and continuing on that path would help position Oregon State more favorably in the next realignment cycle. If they do expand further and its likely to be simply a matter of time they have plenty of attractive options in the ACC, including Clemson, Miami, and Florida State. A new-look Pac-12, -14, -16, etc. All four newcomers joined as full members but North Carolina A&T wont join for football until 2023. Right now, OSU and WSU are in a tough spot because they dont have a proactive move. Atlantic 10 Conference (15 full members)DavidsonDaytonDuquesneFordhamGeorge MasonGeorge WashingtonLa Salle Loyola ChicagoMassachusettsRhode IslandRichmondSt. With the massive financial commitment of Oregon Alum Phil Knight and many others, the Ducks have built new football, basketball, baseball, softball, and track and field facilities and have improved others. These days, everything ought to be considered on the table. Oregon gets back Nix, RB Bucky Irving and WR Troy Franklin, but OC Kenny Dillingham is now Arizona State 's head coach. Incarnate Word had announced its intention to leave the Southland for the WAC, but chose instead to remain in the Southland. The Big 10 and SEC schools are expected to make dozens of millions of dollars more per year in the future. The Pac-12 could die. Not only could a suitor Conference gain additional access to benefits from the Company such as new equipment and uniforms, but the Company is also in a position to be generous in other ways, especially under the new Name, Image and Likeness rules. Joining: Jacksonville State, Kennesaw State, Liberty, New Mexico State, Sam Houston, Leaving: Charlotte, FAU, Marshall, North Texas, Old Dominion, Rice, Southern Miss, UAB, UTEP. AZ, CO, CT, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, (select parishes), MD, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, VA, WV, WY, CA-ONT only.Eligibility restrictions apply. 8-San Jose State: San Jose is a huge market, but not many people in the Bay Area care about college athletics. Oregon State is disadvantaged in that it possesses no negotiating leverage over conferences more prosperous than the Pac-12. Worst Case Scenario: ESPN - or some crafty lawyer - figures out how to blow up the horrible grant of rights deal that locks the schools into their football media deal until 2036, and the SEC and Big Ten have have an epic battle to see who can get North Carolina, and Clemson, Florida State, and Miami. Oregon and. Atlantic Coast Conference (15 full members)Boston CollegeClemsonDukeFlorida StateGeorgia TechLouisvilleMiami (Fla.)North CarolinaNorth Carolina StateNotre Dame*PittsburghSyracuseVirginiaVirginia TechWake Forest*Notre Dame is a non-football member, competing as an independent. Conference USA (10 full members)Florida International Jacksonville State Kennesaw StateLibertyLouisiana TechMiddle Tennessee State New Mexico State Sam HoustonUTEPWestern Kentucky, Horizon League (11 full members)Cleveland StateDetroit MercyIUPUI Northern Kentucky OaklandPurdue-Fort WayneRobert MorrisWisconsin-Green BayWisconsin-MilwaukeeWright StateYoungstown State, Ivy League (8 full members)BrownColumbiaCornellDartmouthHarvardPennPrincetonYale, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (11 full members)CanisiusFairfieldIonaManhattanMarist Mount St. MarysNiagaraQuinnipiacRiderSaint PetersSiena, Mid-American Conference (12 full members)AkronBall StateBowling GreenBuffaloCentral MichiganEastern MichiganKent StateMiami (Ohio)Northern IllinoisOhioToledoWestern Michigan. ThomasSan DiegoStetsonValparaiso. Its the TV and streaming giants that really drive conference realignment decisions, and college football in particular will always be king as far as broadcast dollars are concerned. View All. 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