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• #ACC CONFERENCE EXPANSION NEWS TV#

That way a twenty school SEC maintains its territorial integrity and the SEC Network would lock in the valuable states of Virginia and North Carolina. Maybe also adding NC State and Virginia Tech to the mix. Where do UNC and UVA see themselves in the years ahead? If the answer is the SEC, I think there’s a strong case to be made that the SEC would expand and take UNC and UVa. So what does that mean for the SEC and the Big Ten? Well, let’s start with major decisions that will have to be made by the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia. So all those rumored tens of millions of dollars keeping the ACC from splitting up? It’s dangling over a precarious foundation, as soon as seven or eight schools have better options the ACC as we know it vanishes.

#ACC CONFERENCE EXPANSION NEWS TV#

Yes, the ACC is protected by a grant of rights agreement that extends into the 2030’s - a grant of rights agreement theoretically restricts a school from selling television rights to its sporting events to others and thereby undercuts the primary financial rationale for changing conferences, TV money - but if a majority of the ACC schools vote to end the grant of rights then in theory the ACC’s grant of rights disappears. So what comes next? Welp, there’s chum in the water and the SEC and Big Ten sharks are going to eventually start feasting and once that happens the ACC as a major conference will cease to exist.Īnd here’s a tasty morsel to digest. The SEC and Big Ten’s territorial integrity has remained intact to this point.īut 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. And yes, the Big Ten took Maryland, but so far that’s nibbling at the geographic edges of each conference. Yes, the SEC took Missouri, a long rumored Big Ten target. We just don’t know when it’s going to happen.Īnd when the ACC officially enters the realignment phase something unique will finally happen, the SEC and the Big Ten, who thus far have respected each others’ geographic territories, will finally square off, head to head. But much like we know earthquakes are inevitable, so too is the ACC’s demise.

The tectonic plates shifting underneath college football conferences can be difficult to predict. How long could that pause last? A couple of years or maybe even a decade, no one knows for sure. If the Irish decide to stay independent then there may be a realignment pause for several years. If the Irish decide to join the Big Ten then it’s likely the Big Ten would expand further. In the short term the school with the most power to alter the conference realignment calculus is Notre Dame. Which is why the big story percolating beneath college football’s surface is this: how long is the ACC going to still exist as a major conference? And when will the raid on the ACC officially get underway? Because the ACC’s demise feels inevitable at this point, it’s just a question of when it happens, not if it happens. What may come as a surprise to many is how aggressively the ACC schools are all attempting to join up with the SEC and the Big Ten. 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 it’s not a surprise those schools would be scrambling for new homes. I’ll discuss that below in a moment, but first let’s begin here: top ACC schools recognize that the future of college football is the SEC and the Big Ten and they want out of the ACC.Įver since the Big Ten poached USC and UCLA from the Pac-12, the phones have been ringing off the hook at the SEC and Big Ten offices. And there are two schools in particular, the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina, who will help to drive the next generation of college football expansion.

Because pretty much every ACC school wants to leave the ACC for the SEC or the Big Ten and unlike the Big 12 and the Pac 12, many ACC schools have substantial expansion value to both the SEC and the Big Ten. 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.