... in the richer conferences recruit members from poorer conferences.  Those poorer conferences raid the next conference down the pecking order until you have nuclear winter at the bottom of the FBS ranks, and conferences like the Sun Belt are forced to take anyone they can get from the FCS ranks to stay alive.

There are all kinds of scenarios that could play out and everyone has a different player who will be the key actor to start the domino drop of conference realignment.  Before we talk about what a wild card SMU appears likely to be, we have to know where the weak spots are in the conference techtonics today.

 

Who Could Be the First Domino?

Rightly, most takes begin at the highest tie...

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