Just to be nitpicky, that would be three of their eight. Flordia State didn't join the ACC until the early '90s. (1991, maybe?) Otherwise, an interesting trip down memory lane. I miss smaller conferences.
Naw, that's a good catch. Actually, I understand Georgia Tech had been in one of the precursors to the CUSA, too, but I think that was long before the frame of reference I was using, which was 1985.
You want to see history really really rewritten... Pittsburgh goes into the Big Ten, and the lure of a twelve team Big 10 draws in Notre Dame... It almost happened. Pitt was a year late becoming the 9th Big East team, I understand, because there was all sorts of bargaining going on over Notre Dame, Penn State, Pitt, the Big East and the Big 10.