Conference reconstruction inevitable for college football

This column was originally published with The Red & Black on June 17, 2015 and can be found here.

This week marks the five-year anniversary of one of the strangest times in the history of college football.

In a matter of days, Nebraska and Colorado bolted from the Big 12, Texas and Oklahoma flirted with other conferences and Utah moved up from the Mountain West to join the Pac-10. The strange summer of 2010 set off moves that are still happening, and at this point 34 Football Bowl Subdivision teams have new homes, and one conference — the Western Athletic Conference — no longer exists.

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