I think the mega conferences are a joke and the distance some have to travel to play is asinine. All the while, tradition is flying by the wayside and to hit up road games some teams have to travel across the country to play or view them.
Collegiate sports used to be about tradition, but that isn't the case. Money is the only driving factor and as schools merge into these mega conferences, they're limiting their chance to become what used to mean something, a conference champion.
Texas and OU aren't going to do more with SEC money, nor are some of the other school jumping in. They already had it all, but now their road just got tougher. So naturally, records are going to suffer and when that happens, there will be less fans. A sense of apathy will set in and anotger once proud program will have a bunch of fancy building with exorbitant coaching salaries, but be dog**** on the field which is all the fans care about.
**** is doomed, but that may have already been the case because the younger generations that aren't scholarship worthy generally don't care to begin with. It won't ever end, but college football is on the decline.