The Atlantic Coast Conference voted Friday to add Stanford, California and SMU to the league next year.
The Atlantic Coast Conference voted Friday to add Stanford, California and SMU to the league next year, providing a landing spot for two more schools from the disintegrating Pac-12 and creating a fourth super conference in major college sports.
But now, like the Big Ten and Big 12, the ACC will be a cross-country conference. The ACC will span from Boston in the Northeast to Miami in South Florida, out to Dallas in the heart of the Southwest and up to the Northern California, where Stanford and Cal reside. For the ACC, adding three schools will increase media rights revenue from its long-term deal with ESPN, and allow the conference to spread much of that new money to existing members.
The ACC outgained the Big 12 in total revenue for third among the Power Five that season, though Big 12 schools received more money per school with the league having just 10 members. As late as Thursday night, two North Carolina trustees released a statement saying they were opposed to the ACC’s expansion plan.
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