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<blockquote data-quote="Vernon" data-source="post: 129295333" data-attributes="member: 1034769"><p>Biggest winners, losers five years after realignment hell broke loose</p><p></p><p>Five years ago this week, college athletics lost its mind. Or at least it seemed that way in the moment.</p><p></p><p>On June 10, 2010, <a href="http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/colorado-buffaloes-team">Colorado</a> left the Big 12 for the Pac-12 and <a href="http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/boise-state-broncos-team">Boise State</a>joined the Mountain West. The next day, <a href="http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/nebraska-cornhuskers-team">Nebraska</a> officially accepted a Big Ten invitation. And all the while, the entire industry waited for one school,<a href="http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/texas-longhorns-team">Texas</a>, to decide whether it would follow through on a stunning development that would radically transform one conference, the Pac-10, while rendering another, the Big 12, extinct.</p><p></p><p>Finally, on the morning of June 14, word came that Texas had decided at the 11th hour to stay put, halting the expected exodus of four other Big 12 schools. College sports' conference missile crisis ground to a halt, but the game of musical chairs it touched off would continue for several years. The industry has finally stabilized itself again only now.</p><p></p><p>Today, 43 FBS schools -- 33.6 percent of the current membership -- compete in a different conference than they did five years ago. Along the way, one league (the WAC) died, while another (the former Big East) lost its name (it's now the American Athletic Conference) and its privileged postseason status. All 10 remaining conferences include at least one team they did not claim in 2010.</p><p></p><p>More: <u><strong><a href="http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/texas-longhorns-aggies-missouri-tigers-sec-big-12-pac-12-realignment-chaos-061115">http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/texas-longhorns-aggies-missouri-tigers-sec-big-12-pac-12-realignment-chaos-061115</a></strong></u></p><p></p><p>WVU mention: </p><p></p><p><strong>3) West Virginia</strong>. By late 2011, then-AD Oliver Luck knew he had to get <a href="http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/west-virginia-mountaineers-team">WVU</a> out of the Big East, but landing an invite from the SEC or ACC proved unrealistic. Instead, the school began a clunky marriage with the Big 12, where it's nowhere near any of the other members. The <a href="http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/west-virginia-mountaineers-team">Mountaineers</a>, which went to three BCS bowls their last six years in the Big East, have gone 16-18 in four seasons of Big 12 play, with coach Dana Holgorsen running a similar Air Raid offense as half the league but without the same recruiting benefit of having the state of Texas in its backyard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vernon, post: 129295333, member: 1034769"] Biggest winners, losers five years after realignment hell broke loose Five years ago this week, college athletics lost its mind. Or at least it seemed that way in the moment. On June 10, 2010, [URL='http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/colorado-buffaloes-team']Colorado[/URL] left the Big 12 for the Pac-12 and [URL='http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/boise-state-broncos-team']Boise State[/URL]joined the Mountain West. The next day, [URL='http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/nebraska-cornhuskers-team']Nebraska[/URL] officially accepted a Big Ten invitation. And all the while, the entire industry waited for one school,[URL='http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/texas-longhorns-team']Texas[/URL], to decide whether it would follow through on a stunning development that would radically transform one conference, the Pac-10, while rendering another, the Big 12, extinct. Finally, on the morning of June 14, word came that Texas had decided at the 11th hour to stay put, halting the expected exodus of four other Big 12 schools. College sports' conference missile crisis ground to a halt, but the game of musical chairs it touched off would continue for several years. The industry has finally stabilized itself again only now. Today, 43 FBS schools -- 33.6 percent of the current membership -- compete in a different conference than they did five years ago. Along the way, one league (the WAC) died, while another (the former Big East) lost its name (it's now the American Athletic Conference) and its privileged postseason status. All 10 remaining conferences include at least one team they did not claim in 2010. More: [U][B][URL]http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/texas-longhorns-aggies-missouri-tigers-sec-big-12-pac-12-realignment-chaos-061115[/URL][/B][/U] WVU mention: [B]3) West Virginia[/B]. By late 2011, then-AD Oliver Luck knew he had to get [URL='http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/west-virginia-mountaineers-team']WVU[/URL] out of the Big East, but landing an invite from the SEC or ACC proved unrealistic. Instead, the school began a clunky marriage with the Big 12, where it's nowhere near any of the other members. The [URL='http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/west-virginia-mountaineers-team']Mountaineers[/URL], which went to three BCS bowls their last six years in the Big East, have gone 16-18 in four seasons of Big 12 play, with coach Dana Holgorsen running a similar Air Raid offense as half the league but without the same recruiting benefit of having the state of Texas in its backyard. [/QUOTE]
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