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1. Oregon
2. Indiana
3. Ohio State
4. Miami
5. Georgia
6. Texas
7. Notre Dame
8. BYU
9. Tennessee
10. Penn State
11. Alabama
12. SMU
13. Boise State
14. Ole Miss
15. Army
16. LSU
17. Texas A&M
18. Iowa State
19. Pitt
20. Washington State
21. Clemson
T-22. Louisville
T-22. South Carolina
24. Kansas State
25. Colorado

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Report: ACC to add Stanford, Cal, SMU (www.thescore.com)

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Stanford and Cal are expected to take reduced television revenue shares, while SMU will earn no television revenue from the league for approximately nine years.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was shocked too. That's an extremely long time to forego the entire reason the conferences are realigning. Either their donors have decided its worth the cost to finally make it to a P5 conference, or they're betting that the GoR gets renegotiated sooner rather than later and they can change the terms then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

By all accounts it's the former. What I've heard is that with NIL and a weakened NCAA and a clearer divide emerging between conferences, and also with some annoyance that their last coach bailed on them and immediately took their crosstown P5 rival to the playoff, the extremely wealthy boosters decided, "Money is openly king now? By god that's SMU's music!" Just like a socially awkward rich kid, they're gonna buy themselves some friends. If I'm ESPN, I'm mildly annoyed.