The further outside the NCAA you go, the more interesting the names get. Here is a small sample:
Apprentice School (Virginia)
Blue Mountain CC (Oregon)
Clackamas CC (Oregon)
East-West University (Illinois)
United States Sports University (Alabama)
Word of Life (New York)
The NCAA's lone Canadian member, Simon Fraser, is planning to leave and return to the Canada West Conference in U Sports. The move is tentatively planned to take effect in 2027-28.
SFU released a report earlier this month detailing some likely changes, which include eliminating 5 sports.
Between this and Michigan-USC stonewalling the Big Ten private capital deal (for now), there have been a few surprises this week.
But I know the money will eventually win out. It always does and it's not stopping at the FBS either. FCS/D2/D3 will follow suit, where possible and to a smaller degree.
That $30K a year they'll be getting from FloSports ought to patch up their financial issues real quick. 🙄
College Realignment Report for July 31, 2025
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College Realignment Report for July 15, 2025
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How’s Realignment Shaping Up as the 2025-26 Academic Year Begins?
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A jam-packed realignment report:
- Pac-12 deal, Texas State
- Big Sky, ASUN/WAC/UAC
- PSAC invites Lackawanna
- Shawnee State joins MEC
- Marywood to MAC Commonwealth
- XULA Joins SSAC
- Lots more changes
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Update:
Yes, Shawnee State was considering a move to D2 when I wrote this in February. The school announced a move to the Mountain East starting in 2026-27.
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The Streaming Trend Has Arrived for NCAA Division 2 and Division 3
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In this week's realignment report:
- Sac State to Big West
- IMG Academy paper
- D1 cuts and changes
- UAA signs with FloSports
- Saint Francis adding D3 swimming
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In this week's realignment report:
- House Opt in date changed
- WCC adds 3 championships
- D2 Fresno Pacific moves to CCAA
- Great Southwest adds flag football
- Lots of NAIA individual sports changes
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I appreciate the kind words.
NIL in its current form is convoluted and constantly changing to the point that I just read the headlines and move on. I don't have the capacity or interest to learn all the nuances. I don't blame you for losing interest because college sports are totally different now.
The House Settlement is final, so I decided to take some guesses at how the new roster sizes could impact realignment.
I don't think it's going to be a fun time for Olympic sports, a trend that tennis has already been subjected to.
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In this week's realignment report:
- The House Settlement is finalized
- Utah Valley and Villanova moves
- SUNYAC adds 3 full members
- Luther College leaves A-R-C for Midwest
- Individual sports changes
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I had to re-read the SUNYAC press release to make sure I documented all the moves correctly. I didn't, haha.
The SUNYAC release did say SUNY Cobleskill will add women's field hockey and lacrosse, but there was no mention of that in Cobleskill's release.
Lots of realignment news today:
- Villanova FB to Patriot League
- PSAC adding 2 for men's tennis
- SUNYAC adding 3 full members + 4 associate members
- Union Commonwealth dropping tennis programs
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The constant barrage of "updates" on the Pac-12 media rights have been one of my least favorite parts of realignment the last 10 months. I look forward to the day there's actually an agreement announced and the final numbers are leaked to put this behind us... until the next agreement in 5ish years.
In this week's realignment report:
- Big 12 passes on private equity
- Lehigh adds wrestling
- NCAA D2 PSAC to add an 18th member
- NCAA/NAIA sports changes
- Men's club rugby shuffle
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EA Sports College Football 26 Trailer Impressions
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In this week's realignment report:
- SFA cuts, Pacific adds
- Oklahoma cuts athletic staff
- College Football Playoff changes seeding format
- Sports cuts in NCAA D2, D3, and NAIA
- Tennis cuts trend
- Two NAIA Commissioner Openings
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2 more tennis cuts today, although not surprising. Northwestern Ohio from the NAIA's WHAC will discontinue its tennis programs. The WHAC announced in January that it would stop sponsoring tennis.
36 NCAA and NAIA tennis programs won't return in 2025-26 and 12 will be added.
Guess what sport lost another 4 teams for 2025-26 today? Yup, tennis.
Oh, and Stephen F. Austin dropped both golf programs, women's bowling, and women's beach volleyball.
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College tennis is getting crushed in realignment.
Concordia Irvine announced the discontinuation of their tennis programs, making it 30 teams across the NCAA and NAIA cutting the sport next year.
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In this week's realignment roundup:
- Two sports recommended for NCAA Championship status
- More flag football and volleyball teams announced
- Affiliate membership changes
- Teams make sports cuts
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In this week's realignment article:
- New Haven joins NCAA D1
- Marquette, St. Bonaventure add sports
- Two D3 schools add sports
- Plenty of NAIA news including PCC discontinuing athletics and Webber suspending 8 sports
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In today's realignment roundup:
- UTRGV moves men's soccer to the OVC
- Limestone officially closes
- Saint Elizabeth moves to the Atlantic East
- Beloit's new hockey programs join the WIAC
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In today's realignment post:
- Pair of NCAA D1 schools drop a varsity sport
- Liberty changes conference for men's soccer
- Three NCAA D2 tennis programs were cut
- Two NAIA schools add a new sport
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