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What happens when realignment leaves a college football team behind - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM The good news for Oregon State and Washington State -- spurned by power conferences -- is that teams have been left behind before. Some, like TCU, eventually... USF made this "major college football" thing look pretty easy at first. As a startup program under their first coach, Jim Leavitt, the Bulls enjoyed winning seasons in their first four FBS seasons, then joined the Big East in 2005, bowled for six straight years and spent time in the AP top 10 in both 2007 and 2008. But they fell from eight wins to five to three under Leavitt's replacement, Skip Holtz -- like at UConn, things had already fallen apart when South Florida lost its power-conference designation -- and their years in the AAC have been a roller coaster: a combined 6-18 in 2013-14, then 21-4 in 2016-17, then 4-29 in 2020-22. The Bulls were too putrid to earn a look from the Big 12 in the early 2020s, even as it was pilfering conference rival UCF. They could be on their way to another high under Alex Golesh -- he's one of the sport's more intriguing young coaches -- and the Tampa-St. Petersburg market might be intriguing enough to make them candidates for future expansion of a Big 12 or ACC if they can both get and keep their act together. But for now, it seems like the AAC is about the right weight class.

FSU and Clemson leaving conference can lead to relegation for some ACC schools FLYWAREAGLE.COM HERO Sports' Colton Pool believes that FSU and Clemson leaving the ACC after settling their lawsuits aimed at getting both out of the conference's Grant of Righ If the ACC were to cease to exist as a conference -- which may not be the case if its contingency plan of adding Memphis, Tulane, USF, UConn, Oregon State, and Wazzu comes to fruition -- several schools with AAU accreditation (UNC, UVA, Miami, Pitt, Duke, GA Tech) could have a home in the Big Ten.

NC lawmakers seek to force UNC, NC State to play football, basketball vs. in-state schools WWW.WRAL.COM A new bill brought by several prominent Republican lawmakers would require North Carolina and NC State to play games against East Carolina, Appalachian State and...

Florida expansion could have Big Ten strongly interested in adding FSU: Analyst FLYWAREAGLE.COM Sportskeeda's Farouk Yusuf believes that ambitions to expand into the Florida market... Miami the most likely Florida school the Big Ten will add It won't be FSU that the Big Ten will add if/when the ACC falls apart. Instead, it will most likely be Miami for one simple reason: AAU accreditation.

"It's going to be interesting because, and I don't know enough about this part, but I do think that conference realignment is not over," McGuire prefaced before saying, "It can be two years, or three years, or maybe even next year. But I don't think you're through seeing what the Big 12 looks like, and the Big Ten, and the SEC. I think those three conferences are going to look different. Definitely within the next year they can look different." Big 12 head coach: 'Conference realignment is not over' FLYWAREAGLE.COM We're all not getting off of college sports' conference realignment merry-go-round anytime soon if Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire is to be believed. McGuire

Rumor: Oregon State and Wazzu may soon receive Big 12 invite FLYWAREAGLE.COM Oregon State and Wazzu could soon receive an invitation to the Big 12 according to longtime college football radio host Greg Swaim; who hinted as much in a some From the article: The Big 12 may stop at adding Oregon State and Wazzu, but if they don't, bringing on Memphis and USF could make sense. The Tigers just signed a monumental NIL deal with FedEx while the Bulls could reignite the War on I4 rivalry with UCF. Certainly, the Big 12 being aggressive in adding potential ACC backup plans is the best way to move the needle in the direction of a Power 3 setup in the event FSU, Clemson, and UNC cause a full-blown exodus from the ACC.

Unbelievable that I would love to see us promoted to the ACC conference, yet these guys are suing to get out.

Congrats to the Panthers! Maybe next year for my TB Lightning.

USF pitched for rebuilt ACC or Big 12 to resurrect UCF rivalry FLYWAREAGLE.COM USF was pitched by Hero Sports' Colton Pool to become a member of a rebuilt ACC or the Big 12 -- the latter for the purpose of resurrecting the "War on I4" riva

Upside that is largely ignored and denigrated out of fear from those in power as we might run this town.

I took that to be related to the idea of the program being self-driven by the players. That it would hum along off of the players efforts and not as dependent on the coaching staff for motivation. However, I am jaded and know that we are on borrowed time with CAG. I find myself looking for signs of dissatisfaction from him.