Early afternoon rumblings of the Big Ten adding USC and UCLA turned into an evening. Not that THAT could happen again but they could be a legitimate semi-superpower with what they are building now. According to reports from Saturday Down South, the preference among SEC presidents is to not expand beyond 16 teams as of this time. 1 . Big 12: $409.2 million On a per-school payout basis, the ACC lags behind; the league distributed around $33 million to its full-time members in 2020. much of Clays guesses are solid a few not so much. The next piece of conference realignment news that comes from the college sports world could involve the Big Ten, who accepted applications from USC and UCLA at the end of June to join the conference in 2024, stealing away two schools in Florida the SEC could also be targeting. But if UNC and UVA picked the Big Ten, then I think the SEC would act quickly to add N.C. State and Virginia Tech and probably then move down the coast and add Clemson and Florida State too. Expansion or realignment is on everyones minds these days. The tectonic plates shifting underneath college football conferences can be difficult to predict. The ACC is headlined by exceptional quarterbacks and stars on the defensive line, making the conference one of the most unpredictable in college football. Expansion Rumors . The conference is still hotly pursuing four teams out West in Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah. According to Action Network's Brett McMurphy, Florida State and . So the finances for the SEC when it comes to expansion, at least right now, are less complicated than the Big Ten. If just six current members decide they want out andlegally challenge the leagues grant of rights, the rest of the conference and the deal that tethers it together could come crumbling apart. The ACC currently plays football in nine different states (10 if you count Notre Dame), but one is not Tennessee. They have a quality defensive line and a couple of athletes at the linebacker position, so the same story applies. Sankey spoke at SEC media days on Monday, and Phillips at ACC media days on Wednesday. Sign up for the Trojans Wire newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning. Remember, the Big Ten took Maryland several years ago with the idea that taking Maryland was going to lead to Virginia and North Carolina too. Usually I have found these articles from Wilner to be behind a paywall, however today they were not. Head coach Dabo Swinney seems to have the tools to bring the ACC Championship back to South Carolina. Viewing 3 reply threads 02/28/2023 at 6:13 AM #186391. With Texas andOklahoma leavingthe Big 12 forthe SEC, West Virginia could leave for the ACC. FSU will earn $40-ish million annually, and will constantly chase the 32 schools in the Big Ten and SEC, that will earn nearly double that. Fast forward to now, and the two Big 12 schools' departures have created an exodus and realignment frenzy. At least in regard to fit in the SEC. Simply put, the writing is on the wall for the ACC to get better or get left behind in athletics. Maybe also adding NC State and Virginia Tech to the mix. Watch: Eight Players Ejected in Florida-Kentucky Womens Basketball Game, Joe Lunardis Latest Bracketology Moves Kansas into Midwest, Texas Tech as Last of Next Four Out, Alabama EDGE Will Anderson Singles Out Bijan Robinson as Toughest Player He Faced in College, Robert Griffin III to Join ESPNs Monday Night Football Pregame Show, 2022 Preseason All-Big 12 Football Team: Heartland College Sports Edition. With the the SEC and the Big Ten expanding to 16 schools by 2025, leading to two super conferences, the ACC will tumble further and further behind by millions in revenue sharing. The redshirt junior had a monster season for NC State in 2021, quickly becoming one of the nation's top quarterbacks in 2021. These are two of the 15 most notable college football programs in the history of the sport. The ACC is negotiating a cross-conference championship with the ACC, but also is having teams rumored to leave. But with the departure of Pickett and star wideout Jordan Addison, the Panthers were left searching for a quick fix in the transfer portal. The conference will come down to consistent quarterback play and dominance in the trenches. Everybody and his Uncle Fred has a reliable inside source who says at last count there are 142 inside sources claiming 86 different scenarios. Georgia Tech, Clemson, Florida State and schools in North Carolina and Virginia would provide territorial integrity to the SEC going forward, effectively locking down the South for generations to come. Although the SEC is about to get even more powerful with the additions of Oklahoma and Texas coming over from the Big 12 in 2024, one would think if the league were to expand to 18 teams, Florida State and Clemson would be its preferred additions of choice. . We look at social media's reaction to UNC vs. Duke's first half. Though College Football Playoff expansion feels inevitable at this point, expanding to 16 teams is just flat-out ridiculous. We looked at everybody, a source told ESPN. Their media rights deal is horrific, and they will get lapped. Although not technically on campus, that stadium was a college football vibe. Not to say the ACC will collapse if Florida State were to leave, but the Seminoles are one of only a few teams in vulnerable Power Five conferences that can move the needle and capture a TV audience. By Joe DiTullio July 7, 2022 4 Mins Read Conference realignment has been pushed into overdrive. It may not be possible, but they have to try. That didnt happen. Well, the Seminoles account for roughly 15 percent of the revenue generated by the 14-team league, yet they get the same percentage split as everyone else, just slightly over 7 percent. But the ACC will change all that because the Big Ten wants to come down the southern coast and gobble up schools in North Carolina and Virginia and the SEC wants to prevent that incursion and preserve its geographical ownership of the South. (2) UNC v DUKE Basketball Rivalry does NOT have to be lost regardless of which conference either ends up in. If you put two and two together, it would certainly seem the ACC is the conference the Pac-12 is trying to work with, but again, hard information or a formal and public confirmation do not yet exist. . . is a flashy name for the ACC in conference realignment rumors. I don't think it does and I saw somewhere that Big 10 new media deal specifically leaves room for expansion. Powered by Capitol Presence & Olympus Cloud. In the biggest bombshell of 2022, the two SoCal schools announced that they will leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten in 2024. Location would be a natural fit for the ACC. Teams like UNC, Clemson, Miami, Florida State, Duke, Virginia, and more have been brought up in terms of leaving and finding a new home with revenue sharing being the main factor. Jul 1 2022. Big Ten: $54.3. Clay Travis Business of Sports - Pac-12 media rights: Timeline, revenue e. ESPN has the rights to ACC games until 2036. While the ACCs notable dip into the old Big East has not been as fruitful as it had hoped, essentially swapping out Maryland for Louisville with the Terrapins departure for the Big Ten has been worthwhile. . Florida State had been a successful national independent before joining the ACC in the early 1990s, so dont think for a second the Seminoles wont bail on the league for a better financial opportunity long-term. This is something Ive been writing about on Outkick since all the way back in 2012. Well, lets start with major decisions that will have to be made by the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia. There was a time when Boise State and Memphis were prime targets for future Big 12 Conference expansion.. That time was about two weeks ago, before the Pac 12 began collapsing before our eyes . July 5, 2022 1:26 pm ET Last Thursday, it didn't even take a day for initial rumors to become hard fact. Florida State has the highest ceiling of any team in the ACC. The Seminoles welcomed back an experienced defensive line, along with one of the best safeties in the nation, Jammie Robinson. Recently ESPN has been working with the ACC and remaining Pac-12 members on creating some sort of partnership between the two conferences, allowing them to co-exist within a media rights deal. Thats not a guarantee that the contract signed by every ACC member, originally in 2013 then again for an amended version in 2016, can be broken. Star quarterback Tyler Van Dyke has been the most popular figure on the field, but new head coach Mario Cristobal seems to be steering the Canes to the top of the ACC. 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Big Ten expansion rumors: 'Confidence' that 2 big new members will join Share Rumors continue swirling around the Big Ten expansion, and the latest include adding two more members. 3. Yes, many of those schools calling seeking to join the SEC and the Big Ten are in the Pac-12 and the Big 12, but its not a surprise those schools would be scrambling for new homes. The Owls are inconsistent on the field but would be worth a call if some of those ahead decline. With the help of a dominant interior line, Murphy can quickly help his draft stock rise and push his team toward competing for an ACC championship. Under an unequal share option, a top-tier school would have instead taken closer to $50 million and a lower tier would receive closer to $20 million. MaltLiquorBull. The Pac-12s footprint includes Seattle, Phoenix, the Bay Area, Denver and Salt Lake City. It was announced that USC and UCLA could be looking to move to the Big Ten as soon as 2024. Ultimately, the next potential wave of college football realignment probably starts with Florida State. Since then, he holds an 11-24 record with only one bowl game appearance under his name. Do they want to align with the Southern schools or do they want to join the Big Ten? Without Hartman, though, it takes them out of contention for the best offense in the ACC. My guess in this scenario is that the Big Ten would take Syracuse, Duke, Pittsburgh and, either, Boston College or Miami, to get to twenty schools (less if Notre Dame joined). But the ACC has been viewed as the least stable of the three, in large part because the conferences revenue falls far short of that of the Big Ten and SEC. And its why, at least so far, the Big Ten didnt expand and add Washington and Oregon alongside USC and UCLA, because the TV dollars dont work for those schools (The number one lesson of college football expansion is no one takes less money to expand, you have to at least break even). By comparison, SEC schools shared an average of. Not totally opposed to including Miami but I still see it as a strange fit and have no idea how they could win the SEC if theyve never won the ACC. Florida and South Carolina would need to get over themselves, much like what Texas A&M has had to do with Texas joining. The former Oregon head coach led the Ducks to a Rose Bowl win and two double-digit win seasons. But the wrinkle with the Big Ten is the conference hasnt taken lower level academic schools before. The ACC, Big Ten and SEC are the only Power Five conferences as yet untouched meaning they havent been looted by another conference by the latest round of conference realignment. The Clemson Tigers may be the favorite to win the ACC, but teams like the North Carolina State Wolfpack and Miami Hurricanes aren't too far behind. 4 vs. No. In his first public comments since UCLA and USC moved to depart the Pac-12 and join the Big Ten in 2024, and as the Power Five bends toward the forming of two super leagues, Phillips said here at the . Deion Sanders Has Dogs, Including One Cat Who Just Benched 405 For Breakfast, Questions Remain Unanswered After New Details Emerge From Stetson Bennett Arrest, NASCAR Driver Seeks Collaboration With College Footballs Coolest Helmet For Talladega, Cal-Berkeley Installs Beautiful New Football Field With Disappointing Omission. And I also get that football drives the bus in college sports, but in the big picture, college basketball definitely brings in the revenue. Maybe also adding NC State and Virginia Tech to the mix. 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The ACC's exit fee is that year's media rights with a multiplier of three, which equates to as much as $150 million, reports ESPN's David Hale, and that doesn't include the additional $300. The Big Ten has already poached the Pac-12 for UCLA and USC and all signs point to the Big Ten not being finished with its western expansion.. Florida State was much improved a year ago, but only Clemson would have made it with 12. Sanders. We know the Buckeyes explored going independent last year and if the Big Ten wasnt to expand, might the Buckeyes be tempted to look for a conference that does? UNC/NCST is kind of a toss up. The ACCs television markets include Boston, Atlanta, Washington D.C., Miami, Tampa, Louisville and Orlando, among others. The latest in the sports world, emailed daily. Much like Oklahoma leaving the Big and USC leaving the Pac-12, money. So we will have ultimately have A&P Supermarkets and A&P conference, idea -- anotherdamnyankeehokie 02/17/2023 07:31AM. Now, the rumors are out that more teams will leave conferences and there will be a total shakeup soon. #USC can't have too many offensive tackles in the Big Ten. Multiple ACC teams have been floated as possible adds by the conference think Clemson, Florida State, Miami, North Carolina and Virginia as well as a few Pac-12 schools. Unless something drastically changes, Florida State could have plenty of reasons to leave the ACC. 5 matchup, with many odds in favor of the Fighting Irish. Jul 1, 2022 0 Returning wide receivers Dontayvion Wicks (above) and Keytaon Thompson (below) led the Cavs in yards and catches, respectively, last season. Aside from NC State and Wake Forest, Clemson may be in the best position as far as options within their offense. While most college football media and fans have been chasing Big 12 and Pac-12 expansion and realignment rumors, the truth of the matter is this: the future battles in college football expansion aren't going to be fought in the Big 12 or the Pac-12, they're going to be fought in the ACC. West Virginia Mountaineers. Miami can catch fire during the season and go on a winning streak that would propel them into late-season battles against Clemson, Florida State and Pitt. With the Big 12 falling apart at the seams it would appear any of the remaining eight from the conference would be open game. His reporting is built upon reports earlier Tuesday on where the current realignment winds are blowing. Same applies to all the other fringe sports that dont generate revenue. ACC expansion rumors. No. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and ACC commissioner Jim Phillips fielded those sorts of questions and others related to the future of their conferences at their respective media days this week. 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