The ACC presidents and chancellors met on Friday morning and voted to add three new schools -- Stanford, Cal and SMU, sources told ESPN. It will bring the league to 18 members, 17 of which will play football full time in the league.
The ACC presidents and chancellors met Friday morning and voted to add three new schools -- Stanford, Cal and SMU, sources told ESPN. It will bring the league to 18 members -- 17 will play football full time in the league. The additions will be in all sports and will begin in the 2024-25 school year.
The focus on Woodson intensified on Thursday night when members of the University of North Carolina's Board of Trustees issued a statement to voice their objection to the additions. That move was perceived around the ACC as a political statement to be sure that UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz didn't flip his vote.
Cal, Stanford and SMU will come at a significant discount, which will help create a revenue pool to be shared among ACC members. SMU is expected to come in for seven years with no broadcast media revenue and both Cal and Stanford were expected to receive 30-percent shares of ACC payouts. For SMU, the decision to forgo television revenue gave them a seat in a major conference, as the school will lean on its wealthy boosters to help them stay afloat until revenue comes in. It marks a significant moment for the school's climb back from the death penalty for major infractions that led to the school not playing football in 1987 and 1988. SMU didn't return to a bowl until 2009 after the penalties.
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