The Big Ten is on the verge of adding Oregon and Washington. The Pac-12 is on the verge of falling. And social media is having its say!
Conference realignment has struck again!
On Friday, after several twists and turns that spelled the doom and salvation of the Pac-12 depending on the hour, the final shoe finally dropped.
Oregon and Washington are Big Ten bound.
That's according to multiple reports from around the college football media, though an official vote is still to take place.
The powers in the Pacific Northwest choosing to jump ship from the Pac-12 pretty much seals the fate of the conference which has been quietly in its death throes since USC and UCLA put in with the Big Ten a year ago.
Social media was all over the place with reaction to the big news:
Best memes and tweets after conference realignment struck again with Oregon, Washington to the Big Ten
The college football landscape is changing. But that's always been the case.
The Pacific Coast Conference started with four schools and expanded to include programs like Montana and Idaho. That conference technically dissolved. Montana and Idaho were left behind and eventually, the PCC morphed into the Pac-8, which became the Pac-10 with the addition of Arizona and Arizona State. Then it became the Pac-12 with Utah and Colorado, a former member of the Big 12, joining up.
The Big Ten didn't add Penn State, a now essential member, until 1990. Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers followed.
Football conferences have come and gone (we're looking at you Big East). And the Pac-12 won't be the last conference to face an existential crisis like this. The ACC already is as well.
The one constant through it all is the college football games that will continue to thrill fans every fall in some way, shape or form.
