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Of course, the Irish could elect to remain independent and continue the unique marketing and scheduling freedoms they enjoy, but the prospect of earning hundreds of millions of dollars from conference affiliation will definitely be thoroughly examined and explored. Notre Dame is clearly the greatest factor here, and nothing can really happen elsewhere until its future is set. Although unlikely, if Notre Dame’s current alliance with the ACC is upgraded to full-fledged conference membership, the Pac-12 might remain intact (with a few Mountain West additions) while the Big Ten and SEC attempt to raid the ACC for programs such as Clemson, Miami or UNC. If the Big Ten adds the Irish, then Stanford likely follows suit and leaves the rest of the Pac-12 for dead. As much as the pettiest part of me loves watching the Pac-12’s downfall, USC and UCLA’s recent Big Ten move just pushes the college football landscape closer to the inevitable future of a Power 2 “super conference” model, and such a dynamic almost certainly leaves BYU on the outside looking in.Īt this point, everything revolves around Notre Dame. How will USC/UCLA moving to the Big Ten impact BYU and the Big 12 as a whole? This week, Daily Universe Assistant Sports Editor Jackson Payne discusses your questions regarding college football’s power conference insanity, various offseason storylines around BYU athletics and more.

It’s been a while, but we’re back with another installment of our BYU sports mailbag series. BYU sports mailbag: Conference realignment chaos, offseason activity and everything in between