What are GT and the ACC options as a counter move to SEC expansion

Zaac2000 said:
I shared a plan on Twitter. The ACC should go big! Create a new SuperConference with the PAC-12.

Call it the Pacific to Atlantic Coast Conference (P-ACC). 32 teams strong. Notre Dame and Penn State join because they get to play west coast rivalries.
Add in Kansas, OK State, Texas Tech, and Baylor and the conference has a footprint in 13 of the 15 largest tv markets.
ESPN would quickly renegotiate.
8 team conference playoff. Leave the SEC and BIG10 with scraps. They would either have to consolidate or risk the SuperConference picking off their members one by one.

From coast to coast, it's P-ACC Football and Basketball!
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One problem, and only one of them, is that dealing with the PAC12 is like dealing with the Department of Motor Vehicles on a day when their computers are down.
 
clapper said:
Hell, if the SEC is serious about poaching Clemson, we should work out a UT/OU deal with the Tigers. The SEC wouldn't vote to take us on our own, but if they want Clemson I think they would hold their collective noses and vote us in.
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If they paired with anyone, it would be FSU. Our best bet is to stay in the ACC and try to keep everyone else here as well. If the ACC is going to split, we better hitch our ride to Clemson and FSU or we are screwed (unless the B1G reaches back out).
 
theDude47 said:
If they paired with anyone, it would be FSU. Our best bet is to stay in the ACC and try to keep everyone else here as well. If the ACC is going to split, we better hitch our ride to Clemson and FSU or we are screwed (unless the B1G reaches back out).
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This is correct. Why would Clemson want us to tag along? Out of pure kindness?
 
GT flunkout said:
Oh yay. Illinois, Northwestern, Purdue, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland and Rutgers sounds like a ööööing blast. I get the arguments when they're about money but this idea that the Big Ten would be some powder keg of excitement is one of the dumbest takes ever. öööö the Big 10. Give me road trips to Tobacco Road all day long.
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There is also Penn State, Wisconsin, Ohio State and Michigan.

In the ACC there is Clemson and…..and Clemson and…..and Clemson and….
 
covingtonjacket said:
Why would Clemson want us to tag along? Out of pure kindness?
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I don't believe Clemson would initiate the conversation, but I think they would be interested if we approached them about moving as a pair and they were already leaning that way. Out of all the schools in both the ACC & SEC, Clemson and GT probably have the closest (best?) non-adversarial relationship, both teams and fanbase. Clemson/F$U might be the SEC's preference, but Clemson could drive that conversation and there is no allegiance between them.
 
clapper said:
I don't believe Clemson would initiate the conversation, but I think they would be interested if we approached them about moving as a pair and they were already leaning that way. Out of all the schools in both the ACC & SEC, Clemson and GT probably have the closest (best?) non-adversarial relationship, both teams and fanbase. Clemson/F$U might be the SEC's preference, but Clemson could drive that conversation and there is no allegiance between them.
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I would hope so. But if I’ve learned anything is that tradition means nothing to these people.
 
clapper said:
I don't believe Clemson would initiate the conversation, but I think they would be interested if we approached them about moving as a pair and they were already leaning that way. Out of all the schools in both the ACC & SEC, Clemson and GT probably have the closest (best?) non-adversarial relationship, both teams and fanbase. Clemson/F$U might be the SEC's preference, but Clemson could drive that conversation and there is no allegiance between them.
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Why not all 3 + UNC to get sec to 20 and complete control of the ….. southeast?
 
pianoman said:
Sorry if already posted.
“Swinney said he believed at some point down the road that there would likely be some time of a 60-team league that has its own commissioner and an expanded playoff.“
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Dabo Swinney just gave away the SEC’s entire plan for CFB expansion

No one has come out and spoke plainly about the master plan of CFB expansion, but Dabo Swinney just hit the nose on the head.
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This is why a PAC-12/ ACC coast-to-coast merger forming a SuperConference would be a game-changer, IMO. Get to 32 and do your own playoff. Force the SEC and BIG to either form their own superconference or come knocking.
 
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