ORLANDO, Florida – On Saturday, the latest conference realignment in college athletics will occur: 14 of the 133 FBS schools will officially change conferences. UCF, Houston, BYU and Cincinnati are off to the Big 12; Charlotte, FAU, North Texas, Rice, UAB and UTSA move to the American; and Jacksonville State, Liberty, New Mexico State and Sam Houston join Conference USA.
This recent round of musical chairs reminds me of what a wise man once said*:
“Since the dawn of time, this is how it's always worked.
Man created fire. Fire was good. And in the first-ever conference realignment, the Caveman Conference raided the Woolly Mammoth Conference – much bigger footprint, I'm told – and, of course, Adam and Eve later entered the transfer portal.