The Atlantic Coast Conference is moving forward with expansion, voting to invite SMU, Cal, and Stanford to the conference on Friday morning.
After four programs voted against it, leaving them one vote shy, N.C. State flipped on Friday morning and the vote has now passed. So now what?
The move won’t take place until the 2024-25 academic year, giving the current ACC one more year in its current form. With the additions, the conference now has 18 schools with 17 of those participating in football with every school participating in basketball.
It also means more revenue for the ACC moving forward.
There are a lot of questions still left to be answered and some uncertainty with programs like Florida State, Clemson, and even North Carolina, which all voted against expansion. That will settle itself out over the next few years but expansion will continue to be a hot topic moving forward.
So what do these programs bring to the ACC? We decided to rank the three additions based on overall value using factors such as basketball, football and revenue.
Let’s dive in.