Posted on 09/01/2023 7:47:29 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
The Atlantic Coast Conference has cleared the way for Stanford, California and SMU to join the league next year, two people with direct knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Friday, providing a landing spot for two more teams from the disintegrating Pac-12.
The people spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement was still being prepared. The conference's university presidents and chancellors met Friday morning and voted to extend invitations to the three schools.
The additions make the ACC the latest power conference to expand its membership and footprint westward. Starting in August 2024, the league with Tobacco Road roots in North Carolina will increase its number of football schools to 17 and 18 in most other sports, with Notre Dame remaining a football independent.
Notre Dame is currently the westernmost ACC school in South Bend, Indiana, with Louisville the farthest west among football members.
But now, like the Big Ten, the ACC will be a cross-country conference. The ACC will span from Boston in the Northeast to Miami in South Florida, out to Dallas in the heart of the Southwest and up to the Northern California, where Stanford and Cal reside.
The move appears to be a marriage of desperation for the Bay Area schools, in need of a Power Five conference to call home after the Pac-12 was picked apart by the Big Ten and Big 12.
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Seems Notre Dame runs the ACC and isn’t even a full member. Go figure.
FSU and Clemson are gone - as soon as they can pack their stuff. Possibly UNC and UVA as well.
Only question is is it to the SEC or B1G.
Yep, this is too funny.
The Atlantic Coast Conference will have teams on the Pacific Coast.
Maybe they will change the name of the ACC since it doesn’t make sense anymore???
Well, in minor league baseball, the Pacific Coast League has teams in Oklahoma and Texas. So there’s that.
They can rename it the “Great Atlantic and Pacific Conference” or “A&P” for short.
The Atlantic Coast Conference ought to rename themselves the Non Flyovers Conference.
Those four schools are the heart of the ACC. Miami isn’t much of a football program anymore, so their departures will make the ACC a second-tier conference. FSU joining the SEC would make a lot of sense given the rivalry with Florida.
Conferences are going the way of the Dodo Bird, eventually all of college football will be run by one big organization, separating teams into divisions, which actually will resemble more the old conferences.
UF will veto any invitation to the SEC for FSU. I think they wind up in the B1G.
Right but Texas and Indiana schools would ruin that. California is becoming more of a flyover state than any in the Union these days.
“All Coasts Conference”
Given the nation’s current chaotic state, this fustercluck seems just about par.
Packing their stuff will have to include figuring out how to void the grant of rights agreement. Unless they can void the GOR, it is highly unlikely that they can afford to leave until the 2030s.
The Pac 2 will be back stronger than ever!
SMU must have some big donors....no tv revenue for 9 years.
In 3 to 5 years it will all be revised again- two super conferences with teams from the SEC/Big Ten/ACC/Big 12 merging.
They ACC will be a fraction of what it is now- mediocre- and SMU still won’t be getting any revenue.
See what greed begets.
Frankly, the ACC is mediocre now.
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