2010 – 13 Big East Conference realignment refers to the Big East Conference dealing with several proposed and actual conference expansion and reduction plans among various NCAA conferences and institutions . Following on the 2005 NCAA conference realignment , resulting in the move of 23 teams across various conferences after an initial raid of three Big East teams , the Big East was severely impacted in the follow-up 2010 – 2014 NCAA conference realignment . Beginning in the 2010 – 11 academic year and continuing into 2013 , 13 Big East schools announced their departure for other conferences and 13 other schools announced plans to join the conference ( eight as all-sports members , and five for football only ) , but three of the latter group later backed out of their plans to join ( one for all sports , and the other two for football only ) . Most notably , the seven schools that did not sponsor football in Division I FBS announced in December 2012 that they would leave as a group , which led to a formal split of the conference effective in July 2013
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2010–13 Big East Conference realignment