USC is barely top 20 in both polls. Alabama fell 10 spots in both polls. BYU is still the only non-power team ranked in either poll though they are no longer ranked in the Coaches' Poll. BYU could still get into a New Year's Six Bowl but would need to do really good, and cannot take the place of the highest-ranked Group of Five champion because they are not in a conference.
The Sun Belt earlier this month may have kicked off the next round of realignment moves among FBS conferences by adding Coastal Carolina, a school I had anticipated would join the CAA. The next move by a power conference could very well be by the ACC. UConn and Cincinnati could be coming to the ACC soon, but this would mainly be a basketball move due to their good basketball teams (in UConn's case, both men's and women's are good, the women's team having won the past few national titles, including two over ACC member Notre Dame), although it would allow the football teams to be aligned into North and South divisions for the first time ever.
The American would likely replace those two with Marshall and UAB. The latter school is restarting football in 2 years, and provides something of a large market in Birmingham, while Marshall brings a successful football team into the conference.
Conference USA's replacement schools could be Louisiana-Monroe due to its proximity to Louisiana Tech, and Texas State due to its proximity to UTSA, which would bring the # of Texas schools to 5.
The Sun Belt could add FCS teams James Madison, Liberty, and Sam Houston State and non-football school UNC-Asheville as full members, and UMass as football-only, allowing the East Division in football to consist of 7 Eastern time teams (UMass replacing UNCA for football) and the West consisting of the non-Eastern time teams (Idaho and NMSU replacing UALR and UT-Arlington for football).
