We start an offseason series about conference realignment, because this topic will likely never end. This is the first part of a multi-part series.
Conference realignment at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division-I level has been a topic of heavy discussion over the last decade and a half. There have been a number of institutions that have joined or ceded from each of the NCAA Division-I athletic conferences.
This mobility arguably reached a crescendo from 2010-2014 as dozens of institutions changed conference affiliation within the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision, between the Football
Championship Subdivision and Football Bowl Subdivision, and among several of the Division-I basketball conferences.