What then would happen to ACC schools like Louisville, Miami, Wake Forest, Duke, Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Boston College? 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. 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.. Lets get the obvious one out of the way right away. The SEC might even be willing to take UNC, NC State, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Clemson, Florida State and Georgia Tech to keep the Big Ten out of its top markets and states. The problem for the ACC is that they could fall back with the SEC and Big Ten making moves to land teams. All advice, including picks and predictions, is based on individual commentators opinions and not that of Minute Media or its related brands. There's been uncertainty surrounding Clemson's offense throughout the offseason, so a top-tier defense will be vital for the Tigers to climb back on top of the conference. The ACC has had teams in significant markets for years (Atlanta, Boston, Pittsburgh just to name a few) but one they havent is Philadelphia. The entire defensive line is capable of making the All-ACC team in 2022. Expansion or realignment is on everyones minds these days. Though College Football Playoff expansion feels inevitable at this point, expanding to 16 teams is just flat-out ridiculous. His reporting is built upon reports earlier Tuesday on where the current realignment winds are blowing. In the biggest bombshell of 2022, the two SoCal schools announced that they will leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten in 2024. But the wrinkle with the Big Ten is the conference hasnt taken lower level academic schools before. (Mandatory Credit: Justin Ford-USA TODAY Sports). Pitt is returning an outstanding defensive line with Habakkuk Baldonado and Calijah Kancey, leaving the offense as the major question in 2022. July 19, 2022, 12:39 pmupdated July 20, 2022, 12:48 pm Jul 29, 2021 If the ACC decides to expand, much of the conversation will center on Notre Dame. Business of Sports - Pac-12 media rights: Timeline, revenue e. So while everyone is looking at the Pac-12 and the Big 12, the two biggest state battlegrounds to come arent states located in either of those conferences: theyre Virginia and North Carolina. Follow us@TarHeelsWireon Twitter and like our page onFacebookto follow ongoing coverage of North Carolina Tar Heels news, notes and opinions. With the Big 12 falling apart at the seams it would appear any of the remaining eight from the conference would be open game. 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. 11 Comments. While teams like Kansas and maybe even Iowa State could be heading to the Big Ten, West Virginia has never been the ideal geographic fit in the Big 12 since arriving in 2012. The Tigers should have the slight advantage with seasoned vets on their side, facing first-year head coach Marcus Freeman. The Big 12 remains open to conference expansion. West Virginia already has. If it wasnt for Ohio State stepping up last summer the Big Ten would have gone without football. By Joe DiTullio July 7, 2022 4 Mins Read Conference realignment has been pushed into overdrive. 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. That agreement is holding Texas and Oklahoma in the league through the 2024 season. Please check your email for a confirmation. The Wolfpack enter the 2022 season with an elite signal caller and a mature offensive line ready to compete with anyone. The prior season, which included the early stages of the COVID-19 . John Canzano, the Portland-based columnist, reporter and talk-show host, offered more reporting on his Substack. much of Clays guesses are solid a few not so much. (AAU membership, which is restricted to 63 universities in the country right now, has been incredibly important to the Big Ten. So the big question thats hanging out there, ultimately, is this: Where do UNC and UVA see their long range futures? All picks and predictions are suggestions only. The Tigers may be fielding the best defenses in the nation, with Myles Murphy and Bryan Bresee in the trenches. 2. 1. If UNCCH and UVA want to join Vandy and MIZZOU as SEC doormats and sell out for the Big Bucks let them. The math hasnt changed that much since then. I cant see funding for womens field hockey for UCLA to travel to Rutgers. Will the ACC grants of rights hold? These are two of the 15 most notable college football programs in the history of the sport. Ill discuss that below in a moment, but first lets 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. Yes, the Mountaineers could stay in the new-look Big Eight, but the potential fit with the ACC makes way too much sense for WVU not to dip its toes into the conference realignment game once again. And no, not really all that interested in making road trips to Iowa City or Bloomington. ACC Looked at Expanding With West Virginia in 2021: Report By Bryan Clinton Posted on July 12, 2022 With the West Virginia Mountaineers located in the middle of ACC country, there will always be rumors that they are an expansion target for the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Wake Forest Demon Deacons have surely heard these recent ACC rumors, but they shouldn't be sweating them at all. 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. Everything seems to be pointing toward a Canes comeback. It was announced that USC and UCLA could be looking to move to the Big Ten as soon as 2024. While those two talents headline the ACC, there are a couple of dark horse contenders that may be in the mix to jolt their team to the top of the conference. One of the ACC's most intriguing names is Clemson Tigers defensive end Myles Murphy. 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. 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. 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. So what does that mean for the SEC and the Big Ten? Your favorite teams, topics, and players all on your favorite mobile devices. 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. Presumably, that conference is the ACC or maybe the Big 12. According to Charley Walters, a sports columnist for Pioneer Press, the Big 12 is "said to be quietly seeking" Minnesota as an expansion target. 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. They were a veteran team returning almost every big-time playmaker. 211 posts. However, all it would take is six according to an analyst. Syracuse has some reach in the New York market, too. What do you do? This is currently a No. by The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only. 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. Clemson's DJ Uiagalelei is the obvious choice to compete with his phenomenal supporting cast by his side. DISCLAIMER: This site is 100% for entertainment purposes only and does not involve real money betting. What makes this so especially troubling is the Big Ten and the SEC will be able to renegotiate another time before the ACC can even enter the negotiating process once. July 4, 2022 8:44 pm ET. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. 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. (Which is why Id keep my powder dry if I was the Big 12.). That Said .. Florida State Seminoles. Jamie Rhodes-ACC Pool Jamie Rhodes BOZICH (10th): It's tough to keep selling Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Floyd Little, Larry Csonka and Donovan McNabb. According to reports from Saturday Down South, the preference among SEC presidents is to not expand beyond 16 teams as of this time. Each ACC school received an average of $36.1 million, a number inflated by Notre Dame joining the conference full-time for a year because of the pandemic. #USC can't have too many offensive tackles in the Big Ten. The olympic sports are the true student athletes so why penalize them with cross-country rivals ??? The timeline of Wake Forest Athletics is one of rather limited excellence . Winter said. Cunningham ended his third year as the starter with 2,941 yards and 19 touchdowns through the air and 1,031 yards and 20 touchdowns on the ground. The math hasnt changed that much since then. 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. Credit: Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via USA TODAY NETWORK. Published Feb. 21. UNC/NCST is kind of a toss up. CHARLOTTE ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said Wednesday "all options are on the table" for the league amid the shaking ground of conference realignment that's driven by college football. 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. Now that Maile OKeefe has done it, are any other Utah gymnasts close to making perfect 10 history? A couple of years or maybe even a decade, no one knows for sure. With Leary and Van Dyke, the race toward the ACC title will rely on the most consistent quarterback throughout the season. (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. Similar to Texas, if Oklahoma is looking, then the Big Ten would like to have a word on Line 2. So why would they ever league? Your favorite teams, topics, and players all on your favorite mobile devices. Syracuse has a relatively difficult schedule in 2022, so Babers and Co. need to take advantage of their non-conference games meetings. It felt like a critical time for the existence of . I dont think coast to coast was an appetite that the presidents wanted. 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. With the Big 12 apparently crumbling, West. The ACC doesnt want to fall behind in this race and needs to figure something out. 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. @sanders. #USC re-enters the conversation for an elite cornerback. They went cross-country to find Slovis, quickly picking him up in the transfer market after he chose to leave USC. The Orange's stock has been plummeting with the decline of Dino Babers and Syracuse's defense. 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. 230 posts. It would bring the ACC to Ohio, a state absolutely loaded with football talent. All picks and predictions are suggestions only. The 2022 ACC football kickoff event this week in Charlotte will offer much more than just the usual hype . 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. 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. Devin Leary should be considered the best quarterback in the conference. Dabo Swinney still doesn't get it. So all those rumored tens of millions of dollars keeping the ACC from splitting up? High school girls basketball: Skylines Cinderella story continues with 5A semifinal win over Timpview. The ACC distributed more than $578 million, shared among its 15 members, during fiscal 2020-21, according to tax documents, an increase of 16.4 percent and a record in gross revenue for the. This is just laying the groundwork for college football to break away from the NCAA altogether and let the rest of the sports resume their typical NCAA and conference (re: regional) alignment. 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). How Will Wake Forest Fare Without Sam Hartman? 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. The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only. So the finances for the SEC when it comes to expansion, at least right now, are less complicated than the Big Ten. I get that Duke football sucks, but Duke/UNC 2x/year in mens basketball? Much like Oklahoma leaving the Big and USC leaving the Pac-12, money. Hartman may be the most proven and talented quarterback in the conference, so losing a player with his skill set can really hurt the mental aspect of the Demon Deacons team and coaching staff. And the remaining ACC schools would be left floating in the realignment cosmos, eventually latching on with the Big 12. Both schools will want to keep the rivalry alive and can do so easily as annual OOC games. Florida State was much improved a year ago, but only Clemson would have made it with 12. There's been a recent cloud over the ACC with rumors surrounding conference realignment, so 2022 should give the college football world a sense of where they stand. 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. Because the ACCs demise feels inevitable at this point, its just a question of when it happens, not if it happens. 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