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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 3455933, member: 1145"] If ND agrees now top go full member in football, the ACC will be open to a few P5 schools should they have an interest in joining when ND goes full football. That list will start with Texas, which may well still be uncertain of the future of the Big XII. Texas will never join the SEC - the SEC killed the SWC, which Texas controlled almost singlehandedly, and the SEC almost killed and did deeply injure the Big XII. Plus, Texas will not follow the lead of Texas A&M. Texas will not join the Big Ten, even if the BT were to agree to take OU. Texas is not going to want to play a midwestern schedule, and it is not going to want to suffer under the Ohio St-Michigan regime and be the 3rd wheel while the other two are mated for life. Texas will not join the Pac now, not with A&M in the SEC, and not with what we now know about the probability of the Pac losing fans steadily well in to the future. If Texas is ready to leave the Big XII, Texas will go ACC as long as ND is and the Texas-ND game is annual. UT-ND played annually will dwarf UT-Aggie and nationally will become bigger than UT-OU ever was and at least as big as ND-SC at the peak of that rivalry. If Texas is keeping the Big XII, the ACC will be open to Penn St should its leaders realize that the Nits best sports interests (not money interests) lie in the ACC, in playing Pitt and Cuse annually in both revenue sports. If ACC leaders were to decide that TX is a state worth being in but UT intends to stay put, the ACC might explore both TCU and Baylor. Either would leave, in a snap, to join the ACC when ND does. If we decide to add a 16th that is not now in a P5, I think Cincy is far and away the best choice. OH is easily the largest state with only 1 P5, and OH is very rich in talent in both revenue sports. And the geography is perfect for the ACC. [/QUOTE]

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