NEWS: SMU is another expansion target for the ACC, a source confirms to NicoleAuerbach. The league’s administrators are expected to review financials later today related to adding only Cal & Stanford and also all three. Conference realignment updates:
This round? If that’s defined as this late summer period then yes, the SEC will very likely sit it out. The qualifier is only because of the Florida State nuclear scenario, where the school backs up its histrionics by announcing before the Aug. 15 deadline that it is leaving the ACC for the 2024 season, and the SEC pounces. I’ve found little appetite within the SEC to do that, for reasons explained in my column last week: Florida State needs the SEC much more than the other way around.
The one argument I’ve heard that does give me pause: What if Florida State is absolutely leaving the ACC, and this becomes a situation similar to Texas in 2021, where the two schools were going somewhere, so the SEC was smart to act rather than let another conference grab them.
Regardless, if Florida State is absolutely available, would the SEC be worried that the Big Ten or Big 12 would grab the Seminoles and encroach on its territory? I’m still not sure that’s compelling enough for commissioner Greg Sankey and SEC presidents to act. There might be some trepidation not only from Florida but from others in the SEC about how Florida State has handled its business lately.
The other complication would be who comes with Florida State. The natural assumption is Clemson, but while FSU is making hay about raising funds to perhaps get out of its grant of rights with the ACC, does Clemson or anyone else in the conference have both the money and the stomach to do it? The Pac-12’s fall was swift last week, maybe it also happens to the ACC. More likely, this plays out slowly, which leads to the more long-term question about the SEC and expansion.
SEC leaders seem genuinely happy to stay where they are and don’t feel the need to equal the Big Ten’s number: “Size doesn’t matter,” one league source told me early this week, adding that it’s about quality, not quantity. That doesn’t mean the conference will sit still. It just means it can afford to wait for the ideal candidate.
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