College Football: the pros and cons of super conferences

With last summer’s announcement of Oklahoma and Texas to the SEC, followed by this summer’s announcement of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten, the inevitable college football “super conferences” are closer than they’ve ever been.

Conference realignment has been a hot topic across the college football landscape for the past couple weeks, and will remain so up until the fun part (the games) begin – especially if more dominoes fall in the coming weeks.

As is the case with almost any topic nowadays, college football fans are mostly divided into two different schools of thought when it comes to realignment. There’s those who feel like the direction the sport is heading will wreck the game we all know and love, and then there’s those who remain optimistic about the sport’s future and believe that it will be as healthy as ever with super conferences.

One’s opinion obviously boils down to personal preference, but regardless of which side of the fence you fall on, you simply cannot deny the fact that there are some potential pros and cons to conference realignment.

What are they?

We’ll start with the cons.