We will have a pause now. Focus will shift to the upcoming season. Once Big Ten media days are over realignment talk will subside, but realignment work will continue in the background. The ACC schools will be looking for a way out of their untimely cage and if they can find one, they'll be in background talks with the B1G, SEC, and ESPN trying to find placement for as many as they can in each and working with ESPN to perhaps build a third new conference. N.D. will wait to see the general direction of the ACC before announcing their move. And meanwhile back at the B1G Headquarters they'll be playing free Willie (UCLA). If that fails, say hello to the Cardinal and Dancing Sequoia.

The season will be played while details are worked out and sometime shortly after the CFP final Notre Dame will kick it off with an announced move a year or two out (likely 2025) with 3 more ACC schools, perhaps Duke, Virginia and Pitt/Cuse.

Then within a few days 4 ACC schools to the SEC will be announced. Perhaps they will be UNC, Clemson, FSU, and Miami or NC State. The rest of the moves will be worked out but not released until after the NCAA tourney is over. At that time the B1G could pick up more PAC schools while the SEC rounds out with ACC schools and perhaps Kansas. Summer of 2023 a new conference will be born out of the remnants.

If we do head into players unions and pay for play, I suspect some names will drop out and you might see a 3 x 20 instead of a 3 x 24, or a mixture of the 2 configurations.

If the ACC sticks out the duration of their GOR I could see the SEC and B1G both divvying up the West for markets and late nighttime slots to expand their windows and TV money. The ACC would essentially be bypassed and priced out.

I could see SEC interest in USF, Kansas, Colorado, other current B12 schools, and perhaps Utah and Arizona schools. It would be odd to be sure but could revitalize those programs reached by healthier conferences.

My odds say the ACC realizes their no-win situation and chooses to be part of the new world coming upon us whether we like it or not.