A History of Conference Realignment
Conference realignment is not a new concept. Since college football began, schools have been organizing themselves as independents, associations, and conferences. And with more than 150 years of wars, economic rises and falls, civil rights movements, politics, and media money, programs have reorganized themselves multiple times. The NCAA began its current three-division structure in 1973. Five years later, the schools formerly in the "University Division" that were made into Division I, were further split into I-A and I-AA, eventually renamed for FBS and FCS. We look at that subdivision of lar...