Throughout today and tomorrow, numerous college football rivalries will be renewed. Rivalries like Ohio State-Michigan and Auburn-Alabama will be played until there are no more people to play college football. But due to conference realignment, we'll be losing out on many historic rivalires that should be played every year.

Oregon-Oregon State play at 8:30pm EST and having been playing each other since 1894. But that ends after tonight, with no agreement in place to keep the series going after Oregon leaves the sinking ship formelry know as the Pac-12 for the Big 10. Washington is also leaving the Pac-12 and it's interstate rival Washington State for the Big 10. At least in UW-WSU's case, they have an agreement to keep the series alive until 2028. A series which began in 1900.

Earlier conference realignment stopped the University of Pittsburgh and West Virginia from playing each other every year, Pitt and Penn State don't play each other evey year. Realignment has taken a lot of the regionalism and tradition that helps make college football so magical. I doubt people get hyped up when Pitt plays Wake Forest or North Carolina State.

It's not all bad, admittedly. Conference realignment means Texas and Texas A&M play each other again starting next season in the SEC. Same goes for BYU and Utah when they both join the Big XII next year. But realignment has brought more bad then good, and has broken up many passionate rivalries that make college football so captivating. It really bums me out, and work is slow enough today that I can make a long rambly post on Newgrounds about it in between calls.

TL;DR Conference realignment and it's consequnces have taken a lot of the magic out of college football and broken up great rivalries.

Edit: Due to the BIg XII abosrbing new teams and changes to scheduling, Iowa State and Kansas State will not play each in 2027. This breaks the streak of these teams playing each other every year, which they have done since the series' inception in 1917. More proof to the pile as to why realignment stinks.