Conference Changes for 2023

[Vogel]

Big Ten - 14 teams, no change in 2023
ACC - 14 teams, no change in 2023
SEC - 14 teams, no change in 2023
Pac 12 - 12 teams, no change in 2023

Bix XII - 14 teams, addition of 4 new teams
Cincinnati - from the AAC
Central Florida - from the AAC
Houston - from the AAC
BYU - from Independent

American - 14 teams - lost 3 teams and added 6 teams
LOST (Cincy, UCF & Houston)
Florida Atlantic - from C-USA
Charlotte - from C-USA
Rice - from C-USA
North Texas - from C-USA
UAB - from C-USA
UTSA - from C-USA

C-USA - 9 teams - lost 6 teams and added 4 teams
LOST (FAU, Charlotte, Rice, North Texas, UAB, UTSA)
Liberty - from Independent
New Mexico State - from Independent
Sam Houston - from FCS
Jacksonville State - from FCS

MAC - 12 teams, no change in 2023
Sun Belt - 14 teams, no change in 2023


Lots of movement at the mid-tier level in 2023, with the Big Boy movement in 2024 with the SEC & Big Ten both gaining 2 powerhouses each and the Big XII and Pac 12 losing 2 powerhouses each. Expect more shakeups in the coming years.

[buckeyefan73]

The big 12 will be interesting when Oklahoma and Texas leave.

[Vogel]

Conference Realignment for the Power 5 Conferences for the 2024 season as of right now.

Does the Pac 12 get all 12 Mountain West teams to leave the Mountain West and join the Pac 12 to become the Pac 16?
Does the Mountain West get the 4 remaining members of the Pac 12 to join the Mountain West and go to 16 teams?
Do the 4 remaining Pac 12 members find other Conferences, the ACC has been rumored?

Big Ten	SEC	Big XII	ACC	Pac 12
Ohio St	Alabama	TCU	Florida St	Wash St
Michigan	Georgia	Kansas	Miami	Oregon St
Penn St	Oklahoma	Kansas St	Clemson	Stanford
Mich St	Texas	Texas Tech	Boston College	Cal
USC	LSU	Oklahoma St	North Carolina St
UCLA	Auburn	Arizona	North Carolina
Oregon	Florida	Arizona St	Wake Forest
Washington	Tennessee	Colorado	Virginia
Indiana	Ole Miss	Utah	Virginia Tech
Purdue	Miss St	Baylor	Syracuse
Northwestern	South Carolina	BYU	Georgia Tech
Illinois	Vanderbilt	Central Florida	Pittsburgh
Iowa	Missouri	West Virginia	Louisville
Wisconsin	Arkansas	Cincinnati	Duke
Minnesota	Kentucky	Houston
Nebraska	Texas A&M	Iowa State
Rutgers
Maryland

[Vogel]

Does the Big XII change it's name now that they have 16. They couldn't change it to Big X when they dropped to 10, because of the Big Ten.
Big XVI? Big 16? Central 16?

[sweathog]

UCLA, USC going to big 10 is nothing but a big joke!
They are ruining college sports just like professional sports!!
Letting students transfer from school to school!!
Its all B--- S--- !!!!

[cbus]

The Big 10 should get 2 more PAC 12 members so they have 20 teams. Then they could split the conference by east and west teams. Call the East division the Big 10 and the West Division the PAC 10. They could then play the Conference Championship in the Rose Bowl.

[Vogel]

I was looking up some stuff and found this from last July (2022) in an SI article.

www.si.com/college/2022/07/14/power-5-desirability-rankings-sec-big-ten-acc

Power 5 Desirability Rankings

1	Ohio State	31	Big Ten
2	Michigan	33	Big Ten
3	Notre Dame	37	Independent
4	Texas	41	SEC	New Addition
5	Georgia	53	SEC
6	Florida	58	SEC
7	Wisconsin	75	Big Ten
8	Oklahoma	81	SEC	New Addition
9	USC	84	Big Ten	New Addition
10	Alabama	85	SEC
11	Penn State	88	Big Ten
12	Texas A&M	89	SEC
13	Auburn	106	SEC
14	LSU	109	SEC
15	Washington	111	Big Ten	New Addition
16	Clemson	116	ACC
17	Stanford	127	Pac 4
18	UCLA	132	Big Ten	New Addition
19	Florida State	134	ACC
20	Michigan State	137	Big Ten
21	Iowa	140	Big Ten
22	North Carolina	145	ACC
23	Oregon	145	Big Ten	New Addition
24	Tennessee	149	SEC
25	Miami, FL	151	ACC
26	Oklahoma State	151	Big XII
27	Iowa State	161	Big XII
28	Ole Miss	163	SEC
29	Northwestern	165	Big Ten
30	NC State	169	ACC

14 of the top 15 are Big Ten or SEC teams now.
Florida State #19 is already looking for a new home outside the ACC.
Stanford is now looking
Clemson is like FSU and looking
I've seen UNC and FSU rumored as the next 2 Big Ten teams

Notre Dame is most likely going to stay Independent. But they are the prize money wise for any Conference

The whole list of the 69 Power 5 teams is in the link above.

[cbus]

The Big 10 should tell their teams to stop scheduling Notre Dame.