There’s one thing everybody needs to remember when talking about the latest round of realignment in college sports. Simply put, schools jumping from one conference to another is not new. While it looks as though the latest moves will spell the end of the Pac-12, this has happened before. The Southwest Conference went the way of the dodo, and the WAC no longer has a presence in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
Having said that, however, there’s a lot of understandable dissatisfaction from observers and fans regarding the coming changes. A number of traditional rivalries, some dating back for more than a century, are going to be lost.