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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 4621861, member: 628"]
On your latter point, there was an Athletic piece that tackled that last year.  But the challenge is that the sample size is incredibly small, and assessing performance is subject to many more inter-related factors than just moving conferences.

And there really hasn't been a ton of truly top-tier programs that have switched leagues.  Miami football counts, but they moved to a conference that actually far better suits their footprint.  It's interesting that no one ever mentions that, probably because it runs 100% counter to the narrative.

Who are the others?  Rutgers, Maryland, Pitt, us, Utah, Colorado... I mean this isn't a murderer's row of programs.  Nebraska was already trending down when they joined the B1G.

USC and UCLA, plus Texas and Oklahoma will be interesting cases to follow.  But all of them have had their ups and downs over the past two+ decades in their current conferences (save for OK football).  So again, tough to tease out the conference change from a myriad of other factors.
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