My guess is that in the next year or two Comcast/NBCU and Notre Dame will up the stakes on the football experience and more money will flow into ND's coffers. There will be a recognition on the part of the conferences that expanding out into new markets by bringing in inferior teams will result in less money per team. At some point Michigan, Ohio State, Alabama, LSU, Florida, Florida State, USC, etc will believe that they can get more money with a stand alone delivery mechanism than being part of a conference package. Once that happens the big conferences will break apart.
