OT: Florida State calls emergency BOT meeting

I'm not sure that Michigan would fare any better in the ACC... and that is *not* a compliment to the Big Ten.

I don't get this ACC argument at all.  Big Ten schools get twice the money that ACC schools get. In the new playoff format the Big Ten will get three to five playoff teams every year. The ACC will get one, maybe two in an odd year.  Moving forward, the ACC and likely the Big 12 are doomed.  They can't remain competitive with the Big Ten and SEC when their schools get half the money and resources.  Florida State, Clemson and probably North Carolina and Miami are eventually going to leave the ACC.  What's left is another group of five conference.  

The Big 12 is not in much better shape.  What are the power football programs in that conference moving forward?  Arizona, Utah and TCU? There are two conferences left at the top level.  By the time realignment finishes both the ACC and Big 12 will get less money, not more in the next round of TV contracts.  Moving forward if you want to play college sports, not just football, at the highest level, you have to be in the Big Ten or SEC.

They'd make more money leaving and have no desire to stay for the 'good of the sport' anymore.

Well, yes and no:

• As other posters have pointed out, the ACC payout is terrible compared to the Big Ten and SEC and isn't getting better anytime soon.
• The ACC is a bad, overall, football conference and this year, you could make an argument they were the worst of the Power 5.  So by being a bad football conference, there is no margin for error with whoever their dominate team is in a given year
  • Part of this is also that Clemson hasn't been the Clemson of old for the past 4 seasons.

We can all bring up the argument that moving forward, FSU should stay in the ACC because now with the new format of 12 teams, they can almost guarantee a Top 4 seed every year and a home play-off game (or at least the winner of Clemson/FSU would get that honor).  However, if you look bigger picture, they would still be paid about 50% of what the top seeds out of the Big Ten and SEC get...  So, is it worth, in terms of $$$, getting a Top 4 seed and a home game, but $40M less on the back end, OR, get in as an 6-12 seed, a coin flip on a home game, but a guaranteed extra $40M on the back end.

It makes sense to get that guaranteed money, I don't blame them for wanting to leave.

15 game regular season so everybody plays everybody.

4 top teams in the playoff.

I know you meant Washington and USC instead of USC and USC, but that just points to the problem with the PAC-12. There just aren’t enough nationally relevant teams out west. UCLA would get slaughtered in that 16 team super-conference.

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