Conference realignment has been the talk of college athletics again this summer with the Big Ten adding Oregon and Washington. Hours later, the Pac-12 suffered a few more losses with Arizona, Arizona State and Utah leaving for the Big 12.
There are only four teams left in the Pac-12 with both the Big Ten and Big 12 adding more programs to compete with the SEC.
Then there’s the ACC. The conference has added teams in the past but at this stage, there appears to be some frustrations with revenue sharing as Florida State has expressed interest in leaving. And they aren’t the only ones.
In the past, there was a report of 7 teams that were exploring the option of leaving the conference. If that were to happen, the ACC would be in dangerous waters.
So how about adding? The conference did have talks of adding both Cal and Stanford together. Then there was talk of adding SMU as well to expand the conference even more. While talks have broken down as of now thanks to four programs, the option is still there and it would take one of those programs switching their mind to happen.
With that, here are the top five options that have been discussed now and even in recent memory, ranking them that best fit the conference.