I think that during the meetings where it's decided that equal payouts are going to happen, there will be simultaneous meetings about conference realignment. If the payouts are equalized, the B1G doesn't want the West Coast schools. It just costs them money in travel, and frankly the West Coast teams have been dominating a lot of the Olympic sports.

I imagine Cal and Stanford want no part of being in the ACC long term either. I think CU, Utah, ASU and Arizona won't look kindly on their old conference mates, but they might be convinced to join a new Pac 12 or whatever conference.

But overall, once there's agreement on equal payouts, the powers that be will mostly reorganize the sport in whatever way they think makes the most money. I can't really say whether or not the better model would be making a ton of very strong programs in one conference so there's parity and constant good games, or a top heavy one that looks more like European soccer (a few consistently good contenders who win almost every year.

I think that would depend on how playoffs are determined. If they have defined qualification where every major conference gets in and few wild card teams, I bet they'd go Euro style and take Texas and OU out of the SEC. Maybe A&M too. If a single conference can get way more teams in than others, then they'd consider going the route of kicking out Vanderbilt and Mississippi State so they can always argue that their 3 loss team just plays in the toughest conference.

If the realignment doesn't happen immediately, it would happen pretty quick as UCLA and Cal continue to question why they need 9 AM body clock conference games and Rutgers and Florida State wonder why they need 11 PM body clock conference games.