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A Commentary on those Providing Commentary on Conference Realignment

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If everyone will please, just for a few moments, stop panicking and hyperventilating like a middle school girl experiencing her first breakup. The end of the world is not happening! There is no need to join a UFO cult in preparation for the second coming. Nor is there a need to build a survival camp somewhere up in the mountains, stocked with MRE’s, water and weapons. College football is not dead!

This will be short, but probably not so sweet. I am shocked at the lunacy that is coming out in the media regarding conference realignment. There is no real reason to recap what has happened this past weekend with regards to the expansion of the ACC, the possible expansion of the PAC-12, the possible merging of the Big 12 and the Big East, and so on and so forth.

If you’re not sure what’s going on, then please check it out elsewhere and then come back and read this article.

In the last 48 hours or so, I have read opinion pieces from a number of different contributors on a number of different sites, many of which are not so high on how things are shaping up. I’ve seen arguments ranging from “it’s bad for the game” to “college football as we know if could be gone”.

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5th Down Podcast – 2011 Week 4

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'It's week 4, and a lot of questions have been answered in this young season. There are also a lot more questions yet to be answered. For one, how many other teams are going to jump ship for another conference? In this episode, we talk about some of the news coverage of conference realignments, review last week's picks, and provide analysis on the following week 4 contests:

 

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