The NCAA has made a lot of huge and very big conference changes as each conference has either gained or lost schools. Here are some of the more noticeable changes happening. The Big Ten has seen some of the most change over the past decade-plus as far as teams coming into the conference. Nebraska joined from the Big 12 in 2011 and was soon joined by Maryland and Rutgers, from the ACC and Big East respectively, in 2014. USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington will join the conference in 2024.
Oklahoma and Texas kicked off the latest round of realignment in the summer of 2021 when the teams announced the intention to leave the Big 12 for the SEC. In what was a move originally planned for 2025, the teams decided to join in 2024 earlier this year. The conference will welcome four teams in 2023, and then another four teams in 2024 all from the Pac-12. After adding both Missouri and Texas A&M from the Big 12 in 2012, the SEC will welcome Oklahoma and Texas beginning in 2024.
The move will bring former Big 12 rivals Texas and Texas A&M back together as well as former Big Eight rivals Oklahoma and Missouri. Cincinnati, Houston and UCF leave for the Big 12. Meanwhile, Charlotte, FAU, North Texas, Rice, UAB, and UTSA all join the AAC. The conference will have 14 football-playing members in the upcoming season.Conference USA has the most movement of any conference this upcoming season as six teams are leaving and being replaced by five other teams over the next two seasons.Marshall, Old Dominion and Southern Miss left the conference for the Sun Belt in 2022.
Now the latest news is that Stanford and Cal will leave the Pac-12 along with SMU to join the ACC – sending to long time Pacific COast teams to the opposite end of the country to the Atlantic in 2024-25.