College Football Analyst Warns of Major Conference Realignment News This Month

July 1 marks the first official day of college football realignment. But it's likely we haven't seen the end of it, with even more big moves coming in the future from the Power 4 conferences.

Texas and Oklahoma became official members of the SEC on Monday, while SMU joined the ACC. Other conferences, however, will have to wait until they give their newest members keycards into the building.

Most of the remaining schools to pack their bags are all from the Pac-12, minus two members (Oregon State, Washington State). USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington will be moving to the Big Ten, while Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State and Utah depart for the Big 12.

On the latest episode Late Kick with Josh Pate, he noted that more conference realignment news could be coming as early as this month, with possibly Florida State spearheading the movement.

"On the legal side of this front, I do have pretty decent contacts," Pate said. "These contacts do not necessarily care about sports. They care about their legal careers. So, they informed me a couple weeks ago, 'Get ready. Get ready.' These are not people who are prone to hyperbole -- and they don't care. They did give me the good courtesy of letting me know -- whatever kind of dominoes that were put into motion a couple weeks ago... uh, it's going down."

"When is it going down? Can't possibly know."

Pate goes on to say that it's just a matter of time before Florida State makes a move to remove themselves from the ACC. The big question still remains, though, how they will do it.

Florida State and Clemson have been two of the most adamant schools wanting to get out of the ACC, entering into lawsuits against the conference, implying that they're being financially handcuffed by the current media deal the conference signed with ESPN.

In 2016, the ACC signed a new grants of rights deal with ESPN that goes through 2036. The deal states that all ACC schools therefore transferred their media rights to the conference, whether they are a part of it or not through the term. The only way out of said deal would be through penalty in the sum of $572 million.

"I want to take you back to about three years this month," Pate said. "No ones talking about Texas and OU and the SEC. No one. And then we get into mid-July and... where was it that year? I think Birmingham or Atlanta. SEC Media Days starts. And you wake up the morning the bomb goes off and you know nothing. And all the sudden you get a text or you check Twitter or you get an alert on your phone or someone calls you and says, 'Can you believe Texas and Oklahoma are going to the SEC?' And that was the first you heard of it."

After the additions of SMU, Stanford and Cal, the ACC will become a 17 member conference. But for how long?