Matt Barrie and Paul Finebaum on their latest podcast, The Matt Barrie Show, discussed the ever-changing landscape in college football.

The Power 5 is virtually no more, and the remaining debate is whether there will be 2 or 3 super conferences.

“What have we long said, college football is headed for 2, 2 big conferences, maybe with the Big 12, 3, talk about 60 schools overall that are going to compete and break away from the NCAA and do their own thing,” Barrie said. “And as each day passes, and each Board of Regents meeting goes, we are one day closer to this becoming a reality.”

Increasingly, there is a focus on conference commissioners, new and old, from former Pac-12 boss Larry Scott, to his successor, George Kliavkoff, and the ACC’s Jim Phillips, who Finebaum said lacked some credibility last week at ACC Media Days.

“He is close to an uprising,” Finebaum said. “He nearly had it at the spring meetings, and then he got everybody in a room and they sang kumbaya. But nobody believes it. Nobody believes that league is headed in the right direction. I don’t have a solution, and by the way, it’s not my problem. But there are a lot of factors involved here, but don’t be surprised one day to read that OK, x school has figured out, it will cost $143 million to get out and they’re willing to do it.”

Finebaum noted that Clemson, Florida State, North Carolina and Miami are valuable commodities, and the problem is if any of them leave, the alternatives are slim, and mostly West Virginia. The problem is the ACC and SEC have each passed on West Virginia years ago, and the ACC schools don’t value West Virginia from an academic standpoint.