Jesse Palmer 'not a fan of realignment' after college football's offseason shake-up

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Heavy realigment hit college football in the offseason and was the talk of the sport weeks before games kicked off.

The Pac-12 Conference was decimated before the season started. Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah announced their move to the Big 12, while Oregon and Washington announced they would join USC and UCLA in the Big Ten Conference. The ACC is also reportedly set to add new member schools.

Oklahoma and Texas already decided they were going to move to the SEC.

Jesse Palmer, the former Florida Gators quarterback who is now a college football analyst and host of "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette," told Fox News Digital he wasn’t a fan of what was happening in the sport.

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The Pac-12 logo at the Washington Huskies' spring game April 22, 2023, at Husky Stadium in Seattle. (Jeff Halstead/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"As a fan of college football, I don’t like it. To me, it’s the rivalries and the traditions that are one of things that's most special about the sport and, of course, we’re losing a lot of that as we go to conference realignment," Palmer said. "But this is the new reality. It’s not gonna change. 

"TV deals, revenue — that matters. Just like it is in recruiting, NIL money now for players, all that stuff matters. The landscape has completely changed. I expect expansion to continue to happen. Revenue is going to drive the process. Teams don’t want to get left behind. 

"Teams in the SEC, in the Big Ten right now, their revenue deals far, far exceeds anybody else’s. And the more years that go by, the more it’s going to separate them from schools and other