Signs There to Expect More Conference Shifting Soon

There's even chance SEC could get bigger as door opens to speculation

Big 12 Conference commissioner Brett Yormark speaks to the media during the Big 12 Media Days at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. / Candice Ward-USA TODAY Sports

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — With the Big 12 Media Days completed this week and no mention teams coming or going, that turns the attention to the next weeks. For a league that paid Colorado $2.5 million to join, that probably shouldn't be surprising to anyone.

Don't expect the Arkansas Razorbacks to leave the SEC unless they are kicked out. That isn't likely to happen as the league could be trying to combine with the Big 10 to have two conferences running things at the big-time level.

Not that they don't already. Those two conferences have already bullied their way into getting the biggest cut of the expanded College Football Playoff money. So much for helping anybody at the lower level do much anything except beg down the road to join the party.

There are signs. With the SEC bringing inTexas and Oklahoma in, it appears to be doing schedules in a single two-year stretch right now. That leaves all options on the table for the future.

The SEC could simply do it that way and use the public response that's to look at competitive balance. It also leaves the door open to add teams every couple of years.

Headed into the annual SEC Media Days next week in Dallas, that would be the time to expect any announcements for the future, but right now it seems unlikely. It could explain the smokescreen the last week about Florida State and Clemson jumping from an ACC that looks to be teetering on the edge of a Pac 12-type collapse.

That could have simply been a way to misdirect everybody's attention away from teams joining the party before any sort of official agreetment is reached. That would be hard to do without leaks these days.

Next year, the Razorbacks will play the same league teams as this year, just flipping where the game is played. That means the Hogs will probably be headed to College Station to play the Aggies since this is the last year of the Southwest Classic at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.

It's simple, really. The SEC doesn't know if it will be add new schools because there is a revolving door these days with teams, conferences and players. Things are even crazier in the Big 12 where a Deion Sanders led Coloroado team that went 4-8 last year got most of the attention and ratings and its quarterback is considered a Heisman favorite.

It's hard to tell right now who will ultimately end up moving to the Big 12 or possible the SEC. The only surprise will be if Florida State and Clemson end up playing Arkansas as conference foes in the near future.

The Big 12 now looks like the more likely spot. There are some others in the ACC that would fit in well with them.

It would make sense. That is something that doesn't seem to happen in college sports these days just about anywhere.

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