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Still, here’s what those four schools represent: Two more top 20 TV markets and four large state schools with big alumni bases and healthy attendance figures. They’ll make enough money in their new SEC and Big Ten deals to make up for it. As for the grant-of-rights penalty, it might not be as onerous as you’d think. North Carolina will get a Big Ten invite. Maybe Miami, if the Hurricanes don’t go to the Big Ten. Notwithstanding the ACC’s media deal, which guarantees grant of rights until 2036, the SEC will end up with Clemson and Florida State. Before the ground stops shaking, the Big Ten and SEC will have all the schools they want, save for Notre Dame. What’s transpiring is probably the last great shift in our lifetime. This time, though, the rumors have substance.

When Brent Zwerneman of the Houston Chronicle broke the news last summer that Texas and OU were bound for the SEC, he should have won a Nobel Prize for cracking the code. Next thing you knew, Big Ten presidents made it unanimous. The moves that take are the ones you never hear about, like USC and UCLA. Or at least that’s what Big 12 officials need to tell Utah, Colorado and the Arizona schools.Īs for you, dear reader, forget for a moment that most realignment rumors don’t pan out. Maybe Kliavkoff can still pull his league out of the fire, but that is not the way to bet.

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