The college football world – and the college sports world at that – went through another seismic shift this week with Colorado leaving the Pac-12 to join the Big 12. Who says you can’t return home?
Colorado, originally a member of the Big 12, is back in the fold of a conference that they left in 2011.
Now with their move back to the Big 12, Colorado is likely to be joined by at least one new member if not three. And those programs are likely to be dictated by television markets and numbers as much as it will be by one-the-field success.
So what does this mean for conference expansion and realignment? And what does it mean for the Big Ten, the conference that kickstarted this arms race last summer with the addition of UCLA and USC?
Scroll down and find out what this move means for the world of college football and how it will impact the Big Ten…