The bombshells that dropped in each of these last two summers have already shifted the landscape of college sports as we know it. What happens over the following weeks will go along way in deciding which leagues survive.
The SEC’s luring of Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12 last summer and now the Big Ten’s hauling in of USC and UCLA from the Pac-12, have set up a pair of super conferences. Now the big question will be which of those pilfered leagues comes in at No. 3 in the power rankings, while the other may not survive at all.