University of Chicago 1981, AB
The school left the B1G in the Thirties and has a Division III football team. There is secret codicil in the foundational B1G contract that allows the Maroons (yes, that’s their name, I’m not kidding) to renter the conference at will at any time, but nobody at the University has ever given any serious thought to doing so.
So naturally, as I grew up with the great Eighties Canes, I’m a Canes fan. I started oddly enough with Schnelly’s Young Team while I was up there in Chicago.
True story: the first Heisman Trophy Winner, Jay Berwanger, was a Maroon. 1935 Winner. We pulled out of the Big Ten the next year. A few years later the world’s first controlled nuclear reaction occurred ( under where the library is now ) as part of the Manhattan Project.
They should never have dropped football.