**Running College Football Updates Thread**
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I would think adding three mediocre teams and diluting the TV money even more would only hasten FSU and others to find a way out.
If FSU can figure a way out of the GOR(very unlikely), then they are gone, irrespective of what the ACC does to appease them. Therefore if I'm a decision maker in the ACC, I would be way more concerned with long term viability, then about trying to make FSU a little less frustrated.
I think this expansion would be a bad deal for the ACC , so I would be surprised if it happens, but I don't think FSU has any special veto power leverage.
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Its just not FSU. Clemson has been rumored to be unhappy. And as we saw with the Pac12 things can go awry in a matter of months. UNC and Miami will follow, then UVa, Va Tech, Pitt, NC State and Syracuse will look to leave.
First, with the GOR that lasts until 2036. I know FSU is looking into various legal strategies to exit the GOR, time will tell, but it's likely a looonnnnng shot. If the more valuable teams can't escape, then the conference will be stuck together until 2036. So don't hold your breath on some kind of ACC implosion any time soon.
Once the GOR ends all of the ACC schools will hope for a big 2 conference invite. I can't predict how many of the teams will make the cut, but my guess is that number will be at most 4. The remaining schools wont have any better options, so will stick together. If you assume the next iteration of the ACC will be somewhat comparable to the BIG12 then the the ACC may be able to grab some BIG12 teams (West Virginia and Cincinnati and maybe UCF...), so I really don't see any existential threat to the ACCs existence when the GOR ends.
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I'm not a lawyer, but does adding three mediocre teams that take more away from the TV money change the GOR. Was a provision put into it regarding expansion? Is it even amendable? I would imagine if the conference can change the parameters and add schools that lower the payout then the schools can change the duration of the GOR as well.
Adding schools can happen if some percentage of the schools agree, plus the media rights owner(ESPN) agree. But my understanding is the GOR remains in effect. The purpose of the GOR is to make it so that schools cannot leave , and it works very well, as we saw with Texas and ou having to stay in the BIG12 until the GOR was almost expired.
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Maybe Texas and OU got out a year early because of the four teams added to the Big12? I know Fox had a hand in the early move. Honestly I just want to see the new format before I move on. A 12 team playoff is a start.
It's hard to know why Texas and ou were essentially released a year early without even having to pay the full exit fee.
I don't see why the adding of teams would have been a factor.
My guess is that Texas and ou let it be known that if they didn't get a good exit deal that they wouldn't play any future out of conference games against the BIG12.
2024 is a big transition year and there were likely other factors, maybe ESPN pushed for it. I know Fox dragged their feet, but agreed when given the 2024 Texas Michigan game.
Since the negotiations were private we may never know, but it's allot easier to get a deal done 1 year before the GOR expires then 13, since the amount of money is less, and threats of post GOR boycotts are more meaningful.
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