(AAU membership, which is restricted to 63 universities in the country right now, has been incredibly important to the Big Ten. Ultimately, the next potential wave of college football realignment probably starts with Florida State. The ACC doesnt want to fall behind in this race and needs to figure something out. I recently read that the Clemson coach is on board with college football playoff expansion as long as it's done in a way that's healthy for the players. Aside from NC State and Wake Forest, Clemson may be in the best position as far as options within their offense. All picks and predictions are suggestions only. Cincinnati has been among the strongest Group of Five football programs for quite some time and like Memphis, regularly sends the basketball team to the dance. He's already familiar with the Tigers scheme, previously serving as a defensive analyst and senior defensive assistant for the program. .. Considering they had one of their worst years under Swinney and only lost three games is a scary sight for anyone in the ACC. Mandatory Credit: Justin Ford-USA TODAY Sports. Expansion Rumors . https://fightingirishwire.usatoday.com/lists/10-teams-the-acc-should-target/, news of Texas and Oklahoma both bolting the Big 12 for the SEC is official, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. If it wasnt for Ohio State stepping up last summer the Big Ten would have gone without football. Is Big 12 a step down or step up from the Pac-12? The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only. (1) Im not in favor of all this realignment crap for many reasons breaking up traditional rivalries being a primary one . It may not be possible, but they have to try. Over the last few days, ever since reports indicated that the Pac-12 and the ACC are considering a partnership of sorts in the wake of USC and UCLA leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten the ACC's grant of rights has been a regular point of discussion when talking about conference realignment.. I cant see funding for womens field hockey for UCLA to travel to Rutgers. 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. It's rare that a team gets 10 wins in a season and a bowl game victory and is viewed as a down year. 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 Thread starter BigDanT; Start date Jul 2, 2022; . . Well, it appears that those were more than just rumors last summer in the wake of the Oklahoma and Texas move to the SEC. Keep all other sports even MBB in the regional conferences. 2. - 2022 CFN Temple Preview 10. Expansion chatter continues. Sign up for the Tar Heels Wire newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning. At first, it made some sense why Oklahoma and Texas would want to join the SEC, it . All Rights Reserved, Where the ACC and SEC stand on conference realignment. Maybe also adding NC State and Virginia Tech to the mix. Nole nation was on top of the college football world before the failed Willie Taggart experiment. Currently the conference has 14 football programs, along with Notre Dame who dips their foot in with. (And if they at all are you might as well call Penn State, Michigan, and Wisconsin while youre at it), Sign up for the Fighting Irish Wire newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning, Here's what you need to know about the new OL coach at O-Line U, The Irish are looking for another impact backer in 2024. Football is gonna have to eventually break away from the NCAA so the other sports can play a more reasonable schedule. If the Irish decide to stay independent then there may be a realignment pause for several years. First-year defensive coordinator Wes Goodwin was presented with any assistant's dream when he got the call for promotion. By Joe DiTullio July 7, 2022 4 Mins Read Conference realignment has been pushed into overdrive. 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. West Virginia already has several regional and former Big East rivals in the ACC. is a flashy name for the ACC in conference realignment rumors. Cristobal and the Hurricanes get their first test in Week 3 against a popular Aggies squad that has plenty of hype. While many assume that the future of college football will involve fewer power conferences and possibly as few as two Phillips believes that such a shift wouldnt be the healthiest move for college athletics. Makes total sense to snag at least one team from both NC & VA. Any combo would work but I think VT would be a better fit than UVA. Those are just a sampling of the questions that hang over college football right now, in the wake of Oklahoma and Texas electing to forgo Big 12 membership and join the SEC and USC and UCLA abandoning the Pac-12 for the Big Ten. 11 Comments. If they can win on the road in College Station, they could pose a real threat as the team to beat in the ACC. The Cardinals have been stuck in mediocrity for years. Sanders. Without Hartman, though, it takes them out of contention for the best offense in the ACC. The ACC, on the strength of a national basketball brand and Florida State's decade-long dominance in football, paid its nine members a greater share of revenue than any other league. Ever since news broke that the Sooners and Longhorns were leaving the Big 12 for the SEC, there has been speculation that they would leave earlier than the reported 2025. Even more troubling, the ACC is probably in the worst position of any Power Five league of getting two teams into the expanded College Football Playoff. Goodwin and the Tigers should have a structured defense that's able to hit every opponent from any direction and make splash plays every single week. The Tigers may be fielding the best defenses in the nation, with Myles Murphy and Bryan Bresee in the trenches. They certainly have no bizness in a regional ACC without FSU and Clem 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. 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. UNC wide receiver Josh Downs is a player you cancel plans and start heating up the popcorn for. they were a private commuter school in a pro stadium 25 years ago when they dominated College FB. Remember that a huge detail here is that the SEC, unlike the Big Ten at least so far, has a provision in its new TV deal with ESPN that guarantees all new top expansion candidates will receive the same pro rata payment in the event of expansion as the current schools receive. Early afternoon rumblings of the Big Ten adding USC and UCLA turned into an evening. Will the distance between them continue to make the deal a difficult one to strike, or will the ACC turn its eyes back to prospects closer to home, like the Mountaineers? 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. The ACC has 14 full-time members, as well as Notre Dame in all sports but football. Considered a nearly ironclad legal agreement and extremely punitive it has been estimated that it could cost schools as much as $500 million to get out of the agreement many believe it is the reason ACC schools havent jumped ship yet. Theyd all be desperate to get in the Big Ten. The ACC currently plays football in nine different states (10 if you count Notre Dame), but one is not Tennessee. I don't think it does and I saw somewhere that Big 10 new media deal specifically leaves room for expansion. ESPN has the rights to ACC games until 2036. Despite losing key pieces like Venables and cornerback Andrew Booth Jr., they have veteran forces ready to produce and fresh faces hungry to take down opposing offenses. Amid conference realignment chaos, whats next for the Big 12? Your favorite teams, topics, and players all on your favorite mobile devices. Honorable Mentions: Bryan Bresee, Sean Tucker. The ACC is in the midst of expansion rumors. Syracuse has a relatively difficult schedule in 2022, so Babers and Co. need to take advantage of their non-conference games meetings. Behind the scenes, the Big 12 has been eying the Pac-12 since it added BYU, Cincinnati, UCF and Houston last fall. 3. He's presently banned from appearing on both CNN and ESPN because hes too honest for both. Yeah, just for football, theres a lot of moving parts. As for Miami, Im biased against them but being totally objective, when was the last time they were good? The problem for the ACC is that they could fall back with the SEC and Big Ten making moves to land teams. July 4, 2022 8:44 pm ET. 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. That's clear from commissioner Brett Yormark's recent podcast interview with Pac-12 reporters John . Read the article that Big 12 guy posted & I linked, potential is there. . But with the departure of Pickett and star wideout Jordan Addison, the Panthers were left searching for a quick fix in the transfer portal. Its just not enough to justify the Big Ten taking a flyer on UO, unless they agreed to not take an equal share of that conferences impending $1 billion deal with Fox. While much of this is very insightful, I cant help but feel like any of these potential moves are just a precursor to some much, much larger shift in the sport. The ACC borrowed heavily from the Big 12 in shaping its grants of rights, sources tell CBS Sports. Penn State might have a hold on Philadelphia - for the most part - but for the ACC or Big 12, getting a top five media market makes up for all of the other concerns. https://tarheelswire.usatoday.com/2022/07/11/analyst-reveals-the-number-needed-for-acc-teams-to-leave-conference/, legally challenge the leagues grant of rights, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. 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. Thats how Oklahoma and Texas, whenever they join the SEC, will end up making the same payout as the existing 14 schools in the SEC. Well, lets start with major decisions that will have to be made by the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia. Now that the news of Texas and Oklahoma both bolting the Big 12 for the SEC is official, the fallout really comes into picture. But whether it's Uiagalelei or Klubnik under center, the Tigers have a plethora of weapons, including running back Will Shipley and pass catchers Joseph Ngata and Davis Allen. They went cross-country to find Slovis, quickly picking him up in the transfer market after he chose to leave USC. The idea of North Carolina leaving the ACC - given the longstanding association - may seem crazy. Yes, the ACC is protected by a grant of rights agreement that extends into the 2030s 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 ACCs grant of rights disappears. Most teams across the country would trade their offseason disputes for that problem right there. Are the Jazz willing to tank harder than the Thunder this week. 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. Clay Travis Clearly, the Big Ten and SEC are pulling away from the rest of college football, but somehow, someway, the Big 12 is going to survive this and be even stronger. The redshirt junior had a monster season for NC State in 2021, quickly becoming one of the nation's top quarterbacks in 2021. 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). The LSU Tigers are playing in their backyard against a team desperate for a big win on prime television. This site is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with these schools or teams. Among those include Virginia Tech, Syracuse and above all else, Pittsburgh. The Notre Dame faithful dont want it (myself included), but Jim Phillips and the ACC wouldnt be doing their job if they didnt try to catch their white whale. Commuter school that plays in a pro stadium. Brown wrote on realignment and what it would take for the teams to get out and legally challenge the grant of rights: Theres talk around the ACC that there doesnt have to be a major upheaval for the leagues demise. While both parties agreed to a contract extension that would keep Norvell at Florida State till the 2026 season, he may be rushed out of town if the Noles don't compete in a bowl game or get solid wins against their in-state rivals. So why would they ever league? Yes, the SEC took Missouri, a long rumored Big Ten target. I get taking a team w/ a limited fan base if the team is good. They do add some value and have had amazing teams in the past but its a weird fit. The first four make sense with Arizona's market . 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 . Syracuse has some reach in the New York market, too. For more information, please read our Legal Disclaimer. The Demon Deacons were well equipped to make another run at the ACC title with one of the top scoring units in the country. He rarely makes mistakes, throwing just five picks last season and holding a career 51-12 touchdown-to-interception ratio. 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.. Feel free to decide for yourself on this one. 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