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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/Boatswain-or-scruffy on 2025-07-10 09:04:28+00:00.
With UMass joining this year, NIU gone to the MW next year and Ohio seemingly yearning for the Sunbelt it seems that the nations most stable conference is finally being touched by the waves of realignment. With that in mind, what schools would they have as potential options for backfill/expansion (either FBS or FCS) or would they even chose to add any one new? What else could happen?
One thing I could see happening is some less successful schools, like Kent, taking this as a signal to jumpship and choosing to deemphasize football and move to FCS. I don’t know if the administrators would consider that, but its not entirely unheard of for a school with no stable conference to jump down a level (see Idaho).