I was reading something last night somebody shared on FB (so we know 90+% gotta be lies) about private groups getting in this "game"... the idea being a group could sponsor and become a conference by poaching schools from whatever conference(s) and build a true super conference... nothing to do with geographics nor tradition- all on the money...
Right now the conferences are weak in terms of susceptibility to realignment... its as good an opportunity as any. If there is any validity to this, weird stuff could happen and the game as we know it could truly be wrecked.