Key Additions: Liberty, New Mexico State, Jacksonville State, Sam Houston State in 2023Ĭ-USA is undergoing possibly the biggest shake-up in college football. Key Losses: Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Texas-San Antonio, Rice, UAB Conferences that don't plan on expanding won't be classified as either winners or losers.Īuthor's note: Since the Pac-12, Big Ten and Big 12's "Alliance" created in response to the SEC's expansion appears to just be a scheduling component for now, we'll focus on the conferences that added or lost teams for this. The criteria we'll use for this will include the quality of programs gained or lost, including overall success by things like wins and losses, postseason appearances, national/conference titles or notable recent victories. So which conferences gained and lost the most with the schools they added or saw leave? Let's run through the winner and losers of each conference that announced realignment in 2021 to find out. The news of the shuffling set off a wave of conference realignment across the country. As a result, the Big 12 announced the addition of longtime American Athletic Conference schools Cincinnati, UCF and Houston, as well as longtime independent BYU. It started over the summer with the seismic announcement that the Big 12's Oklahoma and Texas would be moving to the SEC in 2025. The 2021 college football season saw plenty of conference realignment news.
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