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That three teams that were former members of the old Southwest Conference (Arkansas, Texas, Texas Tech) all made the College World Series & all ended up on the same side of the bracket?
 

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No more than having both PAC teams being in the same bracket. Or both Big 12 teams being in the same bracket.
 

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No more than having both PAC teams being in the same bracket. Or both Big 12 teams being in the same bracket.

Yeah, but how many teams from a defunct conference make it in one year? That was my main point. Being in the same bracket was just a bonus bit of irony.
 

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Yeah, but how many teams from a defunct conference make it in one year? That was my main point. Being in the same bracket was just a bonus bit of irony.

How many "defunct" P5 conferences are there?

SWC
Big East
 

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How many "defunct" P5 conferences are there?

SWC
Big East

The Big East is still alive & well, but they returned to their roots & are no longer a football conference.

The Big 8 is no longer around, but 6 of its former members are still together in the Big 12. About the only other defunct major conferences that fielded football teams that I can recall are the Border & Skyline Conferences. There were others - like the Metro - that were non-FB leagues, but I am not going to try to list them.

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The Big East is still alive & well, but they returned to their roots & are no longer a football conference.

The Big 8 is no longer around, but 6 of its former members are still together in the Big 12. About the only other defunct major conferences that fielded football teams that I can recall are the Border & Skyline Conferences. There were others - like the Metro - that were non-FB leagues, but I am not going to try to list them.

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3 former members of the Border and Skyline Conferences are now
members of the Pac12. No wonder nobody takes them seriously.
 

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3 former members of the Border and Skyline Conferences are now members of the Pac12. No wonder nobody takes them seriously.

Actually, 4 former members of those two leagues are now members of the Pac-12.

Arizona & Arizona St. went from the Border to the WAC & then to the Pac; Utah went from the Skyline to the WAC, then the MWC, then the Pac; and Colorado from the Skyline to the Big 8 to the Big 12, then to the Pac.

Also, former Border Conference member Texas Tech went straight from that league to the SWC before settling into the Big 12.

So, one-quarter of the Pac-12's membership is made up of former Western Athletic Conference teams.
 
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