We keep hearing that Texas A&M's impending departure to the SEC will start a chain reaction that will result in four 16-team super conferences. If that's true, it will be a losing situation for many college football teams and fans. There is nothing positive to gain from the existence of super conferences.
Scheduling will quality opponents will be a nightmare for teams left outside the conferences. With so many tough conference opponents on the slate, playing tough non-BCS teams will no longer be an option for BCS teams. (Honestly, it quit being an option some time ago for many of them.)
The disparity between the BCS schools and non-BCS schools in terms of facilities, talent and revenue will grow even larger. It is much easier to line up donors if your school is playing big-time opponents and in big-time bowl games in a BCS conference than if your school is on the outside looking in.
Eventually many non-BCS schools will be forced into an intermediate division between the FBS and FCS because they no longer can compete on an even playing field. When that happens, the appeal of college football is going to take a huge hit and some smaller schools may drop the sport altogether.
When A&M finally leaves, it will be the first domino of many to fall. Expect Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas Tech, Missouri, Kansas and Kansas State all to find new landing spots in some combination of the Pac-12, Big 10 and Big East.
It will signal a bad new era in the sport. If you hated the formation of the BCS, you will really loathe the advent of the super conference.
