In 2010, the college athletics landscape was thrown for its biggest loop yet. "Conference realignment" and "expansion" were the words of the day, every day. Every blog pivoted from talking about last night's results, to discussing television markets ad nauseum. My own sports blogging career would launch like many others at the time too, discussing (almost exclusively) how college football was probably going to implode on itself.
It didn't happen. And after a few years of turbulence, some "grant of rights" agreements, and the ACC (and Syracuse) looking pretty good in the end, we thought it was all over.