How Texas, Oklahoma, Oregon and others ought to fare in brand-new
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Costs Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterJul 3, 2024, 06:50 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a personnel writer for ESPN.com.The relocations we have actually spoken about for
so long as part of a power struggle, of some abstract future, are now concrete. Today, almost 3 years after it was officially announced, Oklahoma and Texas formally entered of the Southeastern Conference. In another month, the remainder of the seismic recent conference adjustment relocations– Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington to the Big 10; Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah to the Big 12; Cal, Stanford and SMU to the ACC– will likewise become authorities. The future is now, whether or not it makes any sense.We’ll still have a lot of jarring minutes of realization this fall– when UCLA gos to Rutgers in mid-October, for instance, or when Cal check outs Wake Forest in early November( or when we get to the end of the season and Oklahoma didn’t play Oklahoma State– but for all of the distinct matches to come, how are these groups going to actually fare? How would they have fared last season? And how do things generally work when a team modifications conferences? Let’s check out it. Where teams would have ranked in their brand-new conferences last season Using 2023’s SP+rankings, let’s set the table by first looking at how the hierarchy would have taken shape for each conference with its new members.(New members for 2024 in vibrant.)