Here's a breakdown of the many changes to the FCS football landscape in the upcoming seasons amid major conference realignment. This article was originally published before the 2022 season. All realignment news is updated as of Feb 16, 2025. Moving from the FCS The following teams are...
College football will look differently across the country this season with conference realignment shaking up the college sports world. Much of the changes come from schools that were in the Pac-12, but there are many other notable moves to note for this season. Here’s ...
Oklahoma and Texas kicked off the latest round of realignment in the summer of 2021 when the teams announced the intention to leave the Big 12 for the SEC. In what was a move originally planned for 2025, the teams decided to join in 2024 earlier this year. The conference will welcome in...
AdamDepartmentJ.DepartmentHofferDepartmentJaredDepartmentA.DepartmentPincinDepartmentApplied Economics LettersHoffer, A.J., & Pincin, J.A. (2015). The effects of conference realignment on NCAA athletic departments. Applied Economics Letters, 22(15), 1209-1223....
The president of the NCAA isCharlie Bakerwho took over the role in 2022. Some of the biggest issues Baker has dealt with as NCAA president have been handling name, image and likeness (NIL), conference realignment and antitrust lawsuits. Baker, the former governor of Massachusetts, replacedMark...
This study uses a panel of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I athletic department revenue and expenditure data from 227 public colleges and universities to empirically investigate the effects of conference realignment over the period 2006-2011. The results show that schools moving...
The Effects of Conference Realignment on National Success and Competitive Balance: The Case of Conference USA Men's Basketball Introduction While amateur athletic conferences serve many functions for the individual member institutions, one important purpose is to attempt to enhance... MM Perline,G ...
News about athlete compensation, player unions and realignment dominate discussions. Everything in college sports is open for discussion, interpretation and adjustment. That includes the industry’s most hallowed tradition, the NCAA basketball tournaments, which begin this week and will stretch f...
The WCHA lost all of its big programs during the tumultuous 2010-14 NCAA realignment {see this: NCAA conference realignment/Hockey}. Basically, all the big programs fled from the WCHA, to either the new Big Ten Hockey Conference (Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota), or to the new NCHC (...
NCAA vs. the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma changed the way college football could be broadcast on television, setting the stage of billion-dollar media rights contracts and conference realignment. “That was a shape-shifting decision that in many ways fundamenta...