The Pac-12, American Athletic and Mountain West conferences are all making moves in the latest realignment shuffle.
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football .After spending three years devouring itself at the highest level of Division I athletics, the realignment revenue battle has moved down the food chain from the power conferences to the best of the rest. This week, much could be decided on that front.Being the fifth-best conference matters greatly in terms of College Football Playoff access, given the automatic bids for the top five leagues.
If you’re trying to get Tulane to travel in all sports from New Orleans—a costly and inconvenient airline city—to Pullman, Wash., and Corvallis, Ore., it has to be worth the time and effort.isn’t the most reassuring revenue pitch in an industry where eight-figure cost increases per school are expected to be part of the 2025 landscape if theThat’s not to say the theoretical new Pac-12 is lacking potential advantages.
Meanwhile, Memphis has been bristling in lesser-than limbo. The program has an avid following in a significant city, and has had some notable success in men’s basketball and football. You can’t blame Memphis—and to a lesser degree Tulane and South Florida—for feeling some urgency. After being left on the curb, any move can seem like a good move.
Start with the possibility that the fifth automatic CFP bid goes away when the details are hammered out for 2027 and beyond. It would be a lousy power grab by the top four leagues, but also completely in line with everything else they’ve done in recent years. If they want to break away from the rest of FBS and/or Division I, that’s one place to start.
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