The Mega Conference Realignment of 2010-2015

The Mega Conference Realignment of 2010-2015 was largely caused by the conference formerly known as Big East, although it was initially sparked by Nebraska jumping from the Big 12 to the Big Ten.  This is only dealing with football conference affiliations.  This is not to be confused with the Great Conference Realignment of 2004-2005 caused by the ACC and Big East.

In the meantime, the basketball schools of the Big East got fed up with the football side and broke off, taking the name with them.  Since the remaining schools were scattered across the country, they took the name American Athletic Conference.  Not to be confused with the ACC or CAA, they choose to go by "American."   This also causes a lot of extra "changes" to be shown below.

Even though it's not shown below because it's not an official full time football move, Notre Dame shifted all of its non-football sports to the ACC, and agreed to five ACC football games a year, starting in 2014.

With the new media deals that most conferences have obtained in the last few years, it looks like the realignment will calm down shortly.  And really, there aren't that many teams and conferences left to switch.

Anything listed in 2015 should still be considered tentative and subject to change at a moment's notice.

	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
App. State	FCS	FCS	FCS	FCS	Sun Belt	Sun Belt
Boise State1	WAC	MW	MW	MW	MW	MW
BYU	MW	Ind.	Ind.	Ind.	Ind.	Ind.
Charlotte2	n/a	n/a	n/a	FCS	FCS	C-USA
Colorado	Big 12	Pac-12	Pac-12	Pac-12	Pac-12	Pac-12
ECU	C-USA	C-USA	C-USA	C-USA	American	American
FIU	Sun Belt	Sun Belt	Sun Belt	C-USA	C-USA	C-USA
Fresno State	WAC	WAC	MW	MW	MW	MW
Ga. Southern	FCS	FCS	FCS	FCS	Sun Belt	Sun Belt
Hawaii	WAC	WAC	MW	MW	MW	MW
Houston	C-USA	C-USA	C-USA	American	American	American
Idaho3	WAC	WAC	WAC	Ind.	Sun Belt	Sun Belt
Louisiana Tech	Sun Belt	Sun Belt	Sun Belt	C-USA	C-USA	C-USA
Louisville	Big East	Big East	Big East	American	ACC	ACC
Maryland	ACC	ACC	ACC	ACC	Big Ten	Big Ten
Memphis	C-USA	C-USA	C-USA	American	American	American
Missouri	Big 12	Big 12	SEC	SEC	SEC	SEC
Navy	Ind.	Ind.	Ind.	Ind.	Ind.	American
Nebraska	Big 12	Big Ten	Big Ten	Big Ten	Big Ten	Big Ten
Nevada	WAC	WAC	MW	MW	MW	MW
New Mexico St.3	WAC	WAC	WAC	Ind.	Sun Belt	Sun Belt
North Texas	Sun Belt	Sun Belt	Sun Belt	C-USA	C-USA	C-USA
ODU	FCS	FCS	FCS	C-USA	C-USA	C-USA
Pitt	Big East	Big East	Big East	ACC	ACC	ACC
Rutgers	Big East	Big East	Big East	American	Big Ten	Big Ten
SMU	C-USA	C-USA	C-USA	American	American	American
Syracuse	Big East	Big East	Big East	ACC	ACC	ACC
Temple	MAC	MAC	Big East	American	American	American
TCU	MW	MW	Big 124	Big 12	Big 12	Big 12
Texas A&M	Big 12	Big 12	SEC	SEC	SEC	SEC
Tulane	C-USA	C-USA	C-USA	C-USA	American	American
Tulsa	C-USA	C-USA	C-USA	C-USA	American	American
Utah	MW	Pac-12	Pac-12	Pac-12	Pac-12	Pac-12
UCF	C-USA	C-USA	C-USA	American	American	American
UTSA2	n/a	FCS	WAC	C-USA	C-USA	C-USA
West Virginia	Big East	Big East	Big 12	Big 12	Big 12	Big 12
WKU	Sun Belt	Sun Belt	Sun Belt	Sun Belt	C-USA	C-USA

¹Boise State famously joined the geographically challenged Big East, bringing along San Diego State. However, before that was to take effect, both schools opted to stay in the Mountain West. This would have made Boise State the only school to change conferences twice during this realignment process.  By not switching, SDS actually fell off of the list.
²Charlotte and UTSA are new programs that began with intentions to join the FBS.
³Idaho and New Mexico State were forced to join other conferences when the WAC dropped football.  They were the only two football teams that had not already left the conference.
⁴TCU did spend a few months committed to joining the Big East before switching to the Big 12.