2021–2026 NCAA conference realignment

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The 2021–2026 NCAA conference realignment was a set of extensive changes that occurred in NCAA conference membership, primarily at the Division I level, that began in the 2021–22 academic year following announcements of Texas and Oklahoma leaving the Big 12 Conference for the Southeastern Conference. Most of these changes involved conferences in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of Division I. All 10 FBS conferences that existed at the start of the realignment cycle have seen changes in their core membership. The Pac-12 Conference lost ten of its twelve members ahead of the 2024–25 academic year, leading to lawsuits and to ad hoc arrangements for its remaining two members until newly invited members could join in 2026. The Associated Press named conference realignment, and in particular the collapse of the Pac-12, as the 2023 story of the year in U.S. sports. At the Group of Six level, six members of Conference USA (CUSA) announced departures for the American Athletic Conference, now...

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