College football is not exactly built on the sturdiest frame at the best of times, but this season has unleashed the largest amount of organizational chaos in decades. The upheaval left dedicated fans of the sport with questions that are usually answered well in advance of the season such as what teams, exactly, are currently in the Big Ten and how is Northwestern going to play football without a stadium.
The conferences spent last summer engaged in a feeding frenzy as they cannibalized each other for lucrative teams, desperately lunged for unclaimed programs, or were completely ransacked. The continent-spanning Enormous Ten now sports eighteen teams, Texas and Oklahoma are in the SEC, and the PAC 12 is now a rump conference that currently consists of two teams loosely aligned with the Mountain West like Protestant Holy Roman Empire principalities clinging to Prussia at the outset of the Thirty Years War.