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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/IceColdDrPepper_Here on 2023-08-03 20:48:40.

This is a list of, in my mind, important milestones in CFB history that have led us to where we are now, starting in 1984 with the NCAA v. Oklahoma BOR Supreme Court decision.

1984

  • SCOTUS rules in favor of the Universities of Georgia and Oklahoma in NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma decision, allowing more games to be shown on TV. The College Football Association was formed prior to this ruling and negotiated with the networks on behalf of all the conferences and independent member colleges (aka Notre Dame)

1990

  • Penn State joins the Big Ten
  • Arkansas and South Carolina accept invitations from the SEC

1991

  • Notre Dame leaves the CFA to sign their own TV rights deal
  • EDIT: Big East begins sponsoring football

1992

  • Bowl Coalition is formed after split championships were awarded in 1990 and 1991 in order to provide quality bowl game matchups for member conference champions and ultimately work towards establishing a uniform way of determining a single national champion
  • Arkansas and South Carolina officially join the SEC
  • Florida State joins the ACC
  • The SEC plays the first conference championship game in D1 history, opening the door for other conferences to follow suit

1994

  • The SEC announces it is leaving the CFA and signs a $95 million TV rights deal with CBS, dealing a massive blow to the CFA and effectively killing it
  • Baylor, Texas, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech accept bids from the Big 8, creating the Big XII and killing the SWC

1995

  • The Bowl Alliance is formed between 5 conferences and the Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange Bowls

1998

  • The Rose Bowl is added to the Bowl Alliance forming the BCS, allowing there to be one definitive national champion every year

2003

  • USC is left out of the national championship game despite having the AP #1 rank and the same record as LSU and Oklahoma

2004

  • Auburn goes undefeated but is left out of the national championship. This combined with a similar result from the year before leads to the first demands for an expanded playoff system

2005

  • Notre Dame signs a new massive contract with NBC
  • Boston College, Miami, and Virginia Tech join the ACC from the Big East

2006

  • The BCS adds an extra, separate National Championship Game

2007

  • The Big Ten network launches by showing App State upsetting #5 Michigan in the Big House
  • A bunch more crazy stuff happens

2010

  • Nebraska announces its intentions to leave the Big XII and join the B1G
  • Colorado is offered and accepts membership to the PAC-10, soon to be 12
  • PAC extends invitations to Oklahoma, Oklahoma St, Texas, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech but all 5 decline (or accept and are later declined, not sure which is true)

2011

  • Nebraska officially joins the B1G
  • Colorado and Utah join the PAC-12
  • Texas launches the Longhorn Network
  • Pitt and Syracuse announce their intentions to leave the Big East and accept invitations from the ACC
  • Texas A&M announces it will join the SEC
  • Rumors of the SEC potentially poaching ACC members causes the ACC to raise exit fees to $20 million
  • TCU and West Virginia accept invitations to join Big XII
  • Missouri is announced as 14th SEC member
  • Alabama and LSU play each other in the BCS national championship, demands for a 4 team playoff intensify
  • Discussions about overhauling the BCS to the CFP begin

2012

  • Missouri and Texas A&M officially join the SEC
  • The PAC-12 launches the PAC-12 network
  • NCAA approves proposal for a 4-team playoff beginning in 2014
  • Notre Dame agrees to join the ACC as a non-football member but will play 5 ACC teams per year
  • Maryland announces it is leaving the ACC and accepts an invitation from the B1G
  • Rutgers and Louisville announce their departure from the Big East and accept invitations to the B1G and ACC, respectively

2013

  • Pitt and Syracuse officially join the ACC
  • The American Athletic Conference forms out of the ashes of the Big East
  • Auburn and Florida State play in the final BCS championship game

2014

  • Louisville, Maryland, and Rutgers all formally join their new conferences
  • The SEC network is launched to great success
  • The first CFP selection brings immediate controversy as TCU, who was ranked 3rd going into conference championship week, drops to 6th after CCGs are played despite not playing in a game since the Big XII no longer had a CCG. Ohio State instead got their spot and proceeded to win the whole thing.

2015

  • WHOA HE HAS TROUBLE WITH THE SNAP AND THE BALL IS FREE IT’S PICKED UP BY MICHIGAN STATE’S JALEN WATTS JACKSON AND HE SCOOOOOORES ON THE LAST PLAY OF THE GAAAME

2016

  • The ACC restructures its Grant of Rights (GOR) to lock teams in through the 2035-36 academic year

2017

  • The SEC becomes the first conference to get 2 teams in the Playoff with Georgia and Alabama both making it and ultimately playing each other in the national championship
  • UCF goes undefeated but misses out on the playoff. Beats Auburn, who beat both Georgia and Alabama, in the Peach Bowl and claims a national championship

2018

  • The transfer portal is introduced

2019

  • ACC network is launched but is less successful than the SEC network
  • Fox introduces Big Noon Kickoff/Saturday, putting their biggest game of the week in either the B1G or Big XII at noon EST. This angers some teams, notably Oklahoma

2020

  • Some virus named after a beer or something shuts down the world and other things happen as well
  • B1G and PAC announce they will not be playing football
  • ACC, Big XII, SEC, and all G5 conferences announce they will be playing football, with Notre Dame temporarily joining the conference as a football member
  • B1G and PAC change their minds and announce they will actually play football
  • Marco Wilson draws a penalty after throwing an LSU player’s shoe 20 yards downfield after getting a 3rd down stop, allowing LSU to extend the drive and end Florida’s playoff hopes
  • SEC signs exclusive media rights deal with ESPN beginning in 2024 for an estimated $300 million

2021

  • SCOTUS rules in favor of NIL, allowing players to be paid for their name, image, and likeness
  • SCOTUS ruling combined with the elimination of the rule forcing transfers to sit out a year effectively creates CFB free agency
  • Oklahoma and Texas ask to join the SEC in 2025 and are unanimously admitted
  • ACC, B1G, and PAC-12 announce an alliance but it quickly goes away
  • Big XII adds BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF as it tries not to drown in the wake of the OUT announcement
  • Many moves are made around the G5, too many to list out
  • Cincinnati becomes the first G5 team to make the playoff
  • Georgia ends its 41 year national title drought by beating Alabama in the national championship

2022

  • Announcement that the playoff will be expanding to 12 teams including 6 auto-bids for conference champions as well as first round byes and home games beginning in 2024 is made
  • USC and UCLA announce they will be leaving the PAC for the B1G in 2024
  • B1G announces new media rights deal with CBS, Fox, and NBC at an estimated $7 billion
  • ACC teams begin exploring ways to leave the conference and get out of the GOR
  • Georgia wins its second straight national championship, the first team in the CFP era to do so

2023

  • Oklahoma and Texas are granted permission to leave the Big XII and join the SEC in 2024
  • Remaining PAC teams cannot reach new media deal by February deadline
  • Colorado announces it will be returning to the Big XII in 2024
  • (We are here) Arizona, Arizona St, and Utah are all rumored to be going to the Big XII as well
  • (We are here) Oregon and Washington are rumored to be going to the B1G
  • (We are here) Florida State officially bemoans GOR and is exploring ways around it either through re-distribution in current ACC or by leaving for another conference

This is most everything I could think of/find on Wikipedia but I probably left some things out. Oh well. Quite the journey we’ve been on folks, and quite a ways to go.