College football in 2025 looks dramatically different after the realignment in the NCAA. Below are the team’s new brackets: (The teams in bold are new to the conference.)
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) now has 17 schools after adding Cal, Stanford, and SMU. The new ACC list is Boston College, Cal, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Pittsburgh, SMU, Stanford, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest.
Cal and Stanford came from the Pac 12. SMU came from the American Athletic Conference (AAC). The two teams left in the Pac 2, formally known as the Pac 12, are Oregon State, and Washington State.
The new Southeastern Conference (SEC) includes Texas A&M, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Louisiana State (LSU), Oklahoma, Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi (Ole Miss), Vanderbilt, Auburn, and Mississippi State.
The American Athletic Conference (AAC) includes Army, Navy, North Texas, East Carolina, Tulane, Charlotte, Memphis, Florida Atlantic, South Florida, Tulsa, UT San Antonio, Alabama Birmingham, Rice, and Temple. \
The MAC (Mid American Conference) includes Eastern Michigan, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Ohio, Toledo, Bowling Green, Miami Ohio, Western Michigan, Northern Illinois, Ball State, Akron, and Kent State.
The Mountain West includes Boise State, Nevada, Utah State, Air Force, UNLV, Colorado State, Hawaii, Fresno State, New Mexico, San Diego State, San Jose State, Wyoming.
Conference USA contains Florida International University (FIU), Jacksonville State, Kennesaw State, Liberty, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee, New Mexico State, Sam Houston, UT El Paso (UTEP), and Western Kentucky.
The Sun Belt includes Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, James Madison, Louisiana, Louisiana Monroe, Marshall, Old Dominion, South Alabama, Southern Miss, Texas State, and Troy.
The Big 12 contains Arizona, Arizona State, Baylor, BYU, Cincinnati, Colorado, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas Tech, UCF, Utah, and West Virginia.
The Big 10 includes Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, UCLA, USC, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Avid college football fan, Toby Baird says “It’s growing on me. I don’t like how far teams have to travel than they used to but they’re very good games to watch and intense.”
He also says, “It’s going to be a lot of family competition.” For example, when USC plays Michigan half my family pulls for Michigan and the other half pulls for USC.
Alex Close, THS English teacher, went to Oregon State and is “upset because the other 10 schools left Oregon State and Washington State in the dust.”
THS Athletic Director, Jim Bennett says, “I like it but I think it could get interesting.”
Eric Bennett, the resource teacher, states “It confuses me and I’m not in favor of divisions getting wiped out. It is really weird.”
Overall, it’s really good for the NCAA. This shakes up the schedules for teams and they play different teams.