Report: No vote taken, ACC still evaluating the potential additions of Cal and Stanford

Could the ACC be expanding to 16 teams?

Yesterday, ESPN college football insider Pete Thamel reported that the ACC is going to "vet and have exploratory discussions" to add Cal and Stanford to the conference. One call will be for the Presidents and Chancellors of each University and the other is for the athletic directors. Thamel also added that the situation is fluid for the four schools remaining in the Pac-12 and a "myriad of options" are being discussed with this being one of them.

Today, Thamel updated the news by saying that "The ACC presidents met this morning for an exploratory call on Cal and Stanford. As expected, no vote was taken and the league is "still evaluating" the potential decision. 

Sources: ACC Presidents met this morning for exploratory call on Cal and Stanford. As expected, no vote was taken. The league is “still evaluating” the potential decision.

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) August 8, 2023

This would be the latest development in the shakeup of college athletics. Oklahoma and Texas began the shift in 2021 with their announcement of going to the SEC and then USC and UCLA shocked the world by going to the Big Ten last summer. Earlier this month, Colorado announced it would be going back to the Big 12 along with Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah, while Oregon and Washington would join USC and UCLA. 

Will the ACC vote to expand the conference?  / Rich Barnes-USA TODAY Sports

The ACC has been in the headlines for conference realignment since Florida State held a board of trustees meeting last week and openly discussed their unhappiness with their current situation in the ACC.

Florida State President Richard McCullough made it seem like Florida State is looking for a way out of the ACC:

"FSU helps to drive value and will drive value for any partner, but we have spent a year trying to understand how we might fix the issue. There are no easy fixes to this challenge, but a group of us have spent literally a year. We've explored every possible option that you can imagine. The issue at hand is what can we do to allow ourselves to be competitive in football and get what I think is the revenue we deserve?"

"This continues to be a very difficult issue. There's a lot going on in the world of conference realignment. My current assessment of the situation after very deep analysis is I believe FSU will have to at some point consider very seriously leaving the ACC unless there were a radical change to the revenue distribution."

Georgia Tech head coach Brent Key gave his thoughts on conference realignment yesterday: 

"To be honest, Mike told me at lunch, seriously. He said you might get a question about conference realignment and I said, what is going on? I had no clue. I was as shocked as anybody when he told me at lunch today. I don't know, ask me on Saturday, I might have time to think about it by then. I have not thought about it one bit. I am worried about Georgia Tech, Georgia Tech, and the ACC and that is really all I care about right now."

Stay tuned for the latest updates on this evolving situation. 

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