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Biggest winner in the realignment shuffle? I’ll take the ACC, or rather, the Louisville Cardinals. Louisville may have “lost” it’s match with West Virginia for Big 12 membership, but now the Cards’ powerhouse football and basketball teams (women’s hoops, too) head for the ACC along with a baseball team that reached the College World Series this year. Big East “basketball schools” also more than doubled their TV intake from the old Big East set up…


Biggest loser? Has to be the Mountaineers, who may have won the battle with Louisville, but they’re losing the $$$ war overall. WVU’s closest competition comes from Iowa State, 870 miles from Morgantown, and already the mountain moaning has reverberated throughout the Big 12. And rivalries? With whom does WVU relate? Stupid is as stupid does…


The Power Five conferences (ACC, Big 10, Big 12, SEC, Pac-12) shouldn’t expect any more tremors for a while, as all are locked into long-term TV deals. While no one knows if the seismic shifts that have occurred over the past decade will ever happen again, when the current TV deals come up for renewal or extension, there will be rumbling again. It’s inevitable. Over the past 25 years, more than 60% of the current FBS schools (128 major football schools) have changed leagues…


Although, in just a couple of months, we’re all liable to hear a bit more rumbling from the Power Five membership as a result of changes in the way they’ll look after themselves through the NCAA. Stay tuned…