A&M has had Manziel and has been mediocre otherwise. I wouldn't exactly call them a success story, but then again, they weren't world beaters in the Big XII either. You have to go down to G5 to see anyone having success in their new conference. Houston, Western Kentucky, and Boise State have all done really well for themselves in their new conferences.

I do wonder how much of the lack of success on the part of a lot of P5 movers has been due to losing their old recruiting grounds and having a hard time establishing new ones. I know Nebraska losing Texas has hurt really bad, and they've basically lost western Iowa and are in the process of letting their home state get regularly raided. Pitt's move basketball-wise has cost them the ability to recruit NYC and Philly. West Virginia can't pull from Virginia, Pennsylvania, or Ohio since they're on such a geographic island.