The 2016 college football season will mark the 25th anniversary of the landscape in the sport changing forever. Several independent powers, including Miami, Syracuse and Virginia Tech, joined with the previously basketball only Big East to create a football part of the league.
One year later, FSU football would play their first season in the ACC (followed two years later by Penn State joining the Big Ten) and in the years since, college football conference realignment has become a yearly discussion.
In recent years, four of the Power Five conferences have expanded by at least two members while the Big 12 has actually lost several (though rumors have flown for almost half a decade about when they will add two more schools, with FSU football being one of the teams mentioned).