In some news that caught me off guard, Notre Dame is reportedly looking at ACC affiliation over the Big Ten. This is something worth keeping an eye on. They are still toeing the company line saying that they will remain independent in football and Big East members in all other sports but those days may be coming to an end. If this is true, it obviously changes my original big four conference predictions. In a simple swap I would move Rutgers over to the Big Ten and Notre Dame over to the ACC North.
In other news, there is talk between the remaining Big East and Big 12 members to join forming one conference (known as the Big 12 is my understanding for financial reasons). I'm not sure at this point if they would operate similar to the current Big East rules as far as the non-football powers in the Big East (Georgetown, Villanova, St. John's) still joining for all other sports. Seems like it would be a very big conference.
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