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Message: [QUOTE="SUMBA, post: 20964, member: 913"] My guess is that the ACC was receptive to adding two schools because they were afraid of losing Clemson and FSU to the SEC. I don't know, but I would assume that there is a 12 team stipulation in the ACC TV contract. If so, falling below 12 teams would cost the conference revenues because networks want the football championship games. The NCAA says that 12 teams are necessary to wage such a game. Thus, the ACC would expand to insure a 12 team football conference even if Clemson and FSU left. The added benefit would be that it puts Notre Dame in play for the ACC. This outcome would have been totally impossible without the addition of SU and Pitt. The major conferences, Texas, and Notre Dame are essentially in a high stakes game of chicken. No more expansion is likely to take place until Notre Dame and/or Texas commits to a super conference. [/QUOTE]