Wandering over to ESPN I was surprised to find the following on their college football page:

Source: espn.com

Now there's a chance that it's a simple error and that they placed the wrong text and hyperlinks with the correct image.  But, since we're talking about Michigan State I think it far more likely that they left the league and no-one noticed since no one cares about Sparty. Obvious conclusions follow:

1) That's one hell of a coup by the Sun Belt!

2) No wonder Delaney is talking expansion.  We'd hate to see a ten-team Big Ten.

3) How bad will MSU's Patented Late Season Collapse(TM) look when it comes against a November slate of North Texas, MTSU, and the Rajun Cajuns?

4) At least we can retire the Land Grant Trophy.

...and what's with this "non-aq" stuff?  Somewhere I bet A.Q. Shipley is peeved!