We are two days away from the big first game of 2025, yet the real drama is happening in boardrooms, text chains, and whispered phone calls. Why? Because the SEC and Big Ten are quietly plotting the next wave of realignment. And Bill Belichick ‘s North Carolina’s got realignment suitors too…
Brett McMurphy dropped the news that got everybody talking. On August 27, On3 Sports posted a video of the analyst in a discussion with Andy Staples and Arizona Wasserman. The news is that North Carolina and Virginia are attractive to both the SEC and Big Ten in expansion. “ Look, after I reported that this morning, I immediately got a text from someone within the SEC and basically said what I’ve been thinking and that is North Carolina and Virginia will be highly contested between b