College football expansion: Kirk Herbstreit hints more realignment to come
This offseason saw another dramatic phase of college football conference realignment as eight current Pac-12 teams are scheduled to leave for other leagues and two Big 12 powers head to the SEC, all effective next summer. But if you listen to ESPN College GameDay analyst Kirk Herbstreit, it sounds like there's a lot more movement still to come.
"I just feel like more's coming," Herbstreit said.
"I don't feel like we're done until we get to August of 2024. I feel like anything and everything's in play. So I'm trying my hardest to keep an open mind to this whole thing because once you put teams like West Virginia and Penn State on the field together, you see those uniforms on the field together competing, all the bullsh-t and all the noise kind of goes away. And it's just football. And the game is still freaking unbelievable."
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He added: "The passion and the emotion of the fanbases is still unbelievable. So despite all of the tornadoes that are going on around the sport, thank God we're a couple weeks away from the ball going in the air, and watching these teams play and still being a lot of fun."
But while that ball is in the air over the next few months, people with power behind the scenes will still be looking to establish their position and see what other offers or opportunities there could be on the table.
Especially in what remains of the Pac-12, with four teams looking at whatever options there are: Stanford, Cal, Washington State, and Oregon State, as the ACC and Big Ten both entertain the idea of adding at least the first two of those four, and with Florida State saying that it's thinking of leaving the ACC in the future.
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