In another dizzying day that will long be remembered as part of the reshaping of college sports, two universities with brand-name football programs announced they were leaving their conferences.
As expected, Nebraska’s regents voted on Friday to join the Big Ten Conference in 2011, giving that league 12 members. The decision could be the fatal blow to the Big 12 Conference, which now has 10 members and appears on the cusp of collapse.
In a somewhat surprising move — at least in the timing — Boise State announced that it would leave the Western Athletic Conference and join the Mountain West in 2011.
Nebraska and Boise State have joined Colorado, which had announced on Thursday that it was leaving the Big 12 for Pacific-10, to form the first wave of conference realignment.
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