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Ultimately it's really only fringe programs that consider dropping down


I don't think I can think of a single instance in the modern era of a program that played football leaving a power conference to join a significantly weaker one; things like GT leaving the SEC happened over 50 years ago. Only programs that were on the fringe of 1-A like UConn and Idaho ever left 1-AA only to return.

To put it another way, I don't think VT would ever voluntarily leave the ACC (or any other power conference) to join a weaker conference just for the sake of winning more games, even if they started only going 2-10 in football every year. Lots of P5 conference programs went through horrible stretches and didn't leave. I think the only way VT ends up at a lower level is if all conferences as we know them collapse towards the formation of a true NFL minor league, and VT doesn't get invited.

(In response to this post by 91HokieBob)

Posted: 09/19/2021 at 11:13AM



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