If you are a casual college football fan, you may have woken up this morning and been surprised to see that Oklahoma and Texas officially joined the SEC. While the Longhorns and Sooners have stolen all of the headlines, 11 P4 teams will be playing for a new conference this upcoming season.
11 may not sound like a ton of teams, but when you consider there are 70 teams (including Notre Dame), that is 16% of the P5 teams.
Here is where each team will be playing in 2024. New teams will be bolded.
ACC
The ACC picked up two of the remaining Pac 12 teams after the four corner schools, USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington, announced they’d be leaving. The fact that the Atlantic Coast Conference will have two teams on the Pacific Coast isn’t getting talked about enough, but then again, the Big 10 already set the precedent that it is accepted now, so maybe it makes sense.
- Boston College
- California (Left Pac-12)
- Clemson
- Duke
- Florida State
- Georgia Tech
- Lousiville
- Miami
- North Carolina
- North Carolina State
- Pittsburgh
- SMU (Left AAC)
- Stanford (Left Pac-12)
- Syracuse
- Virginia
- Virginia Tech
- Wake Forest
Big 12
The conference that was left for dead in 2021 after Texas and Oklahoma announced that they were leaving for the SEC is now in a very stable spot. Unlike all the other conferences expanding, the Big 12 actually fortifies its footprint rather than expanding it.
- Arizona (Left Pac-12)
- Arizona State (Left Pac-12)
- Baylor
- Cincinnati
- Colorado (Left Pac-12)
- Houston
- Iowa State
- Kansas
- Kansas State
- Oklahoma State
- TCU
- Texas Tech
- UCF
- Utah (Left Pac-12)
- West Virginia
It’s July 1st!
Welcome to the Big 12 OFFICIALLY Utah, Arizona, Arizona State and Colorado!
Your new home welcomes you! pic.twitter.com/8ovtdR137Y
— Willy Foosball 🍊🤠 (@WillyFoosball) July 1, 2024
Big 10
The Big 12 gets a lot of the blame for killing the Pac-12, but really, it was the Big 10 going in and taking USC and UCLA that got everything going. They also completely eliminated any chance of surviving when they took Oregon and Washington. These teams will officially join in August. They are the only conference that differs from the July 1st date.
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Michigan State
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- Northwestern
- Ohio State
- Oregon (Left Pac-12)
- Penn State
- Purdue
- Rutgers
- UCLA (Left Pac-12)
- USC (Left Pac-12)
- Washington (Left Pac-12)
- Wisconsin
Pac-12
Technically speaking, the Pac-12 isn’t completely gone. Oregon and Washington State essentially have a year from now to create a conference that at least has eight teams. Some believe they will take the best G5s remaining (Boise State, San Diego State, Tulane, etc…) to destroy the G5 essentially and, in a way, become a P5 de-facto team since they’d almost always take up the 5th automatic qualifying spot in the playoff.
Others believe they will merge with the Mountain West and become the Pac West. This year, they agree to play six Mountain West teams each, similar to Notre Dame’s deal with the ACC.
- Oregon State
- Washington State
SEC
The conference that started it all has been the quietest ever since. Since the news broke nearly three years ago that Texas and Oklahoma would be leaving, the SEC has been pretty quiet about realignment news. A few stories have broken about potential interest in Clemson or Florida State, but nothing compared to the other Power Conferences.
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Auburn
- Florida
- Georgia
- Kentucky
- LSU
- Mississippi State
- Missouri
- Oklahoma
- Ole Miss
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas A&M
- Texas
- Vanderbilt
Oklahoma and Texas join the SEC.
presented by: @renasant
featuring: @ALostrich @FunnyMaine @joshmancuso pic.twitter.com/CO3G1Hef59
— SEC Shorts (@SECShorts) July 1, 2024
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