Goodbye Big 12, Hello Super Conferences

We are witnessing a historic time in the history of college football as every second ticks by.

Colorado is the latest team to take the plunge and leave the Big 12 by joining the Pac-10. Not sure I understand why an average program like Colorado would go to a conference where it will most likely be at the bottom of the barrel.

It's also becoming more and more likely that the likes of Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State will be leaving for the Pac-10 as early as Tuesday.

Texas A&M is in this conversation as well, but they're more on the fence.

The Big 12 as we know it is done for.

Teams like Kansas State, Baylor, and Iowa State are left out in the cold and will have two options: Look for a new, much smaller conference to join, or wait and see if the Big 12 can find new teams to join their conference.

It's really going to leave a huge mess to sort out. You can basically throw everything you learned in geography out the window because schools in the heartland of the country will be playing in a conference made for the west coast.

When this is all said and done the Pac-10 could end up with 16 total teams and the Big Ten with 12 total teams thanks to the inevitable addition of Nebraska.

Like most conferences that have an even number of teams, the Pac-10 would be divided into two divisions that would most likely lump the two Arizona schools with Oklahoma, Texas, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma State.

Now that would be the gauntlet of all divisions in college football.

The WAC also got rocked today as they lost their best program in Boise State to the Mountain West. They won't officially join until July of 2011. All of the sudden the Mountain West is a conference that should be respected greatly, if it wasn't already.

With the addition of Boise State, the Mountain West now has four teams that won at least ten games and finishing in the Top 25.

All of this realignment could mean that smaller schools in America's heartland would get an invitation to join the Big 12.

This could have a trickle affect and impact smaller conferences like Conference USA and maybe even the Sun Belt and the MAC. It really depends on whether or not the Big 12 decides to throw in the towel or tries to stay in existence.

This whole thing is far from being over.