The ACC has had a number of meetings this week to discuss expansion and to sift through the financial details that could make it possible. Notre Dame is a proponent of adding the Bay Area schools, a source tells The Athletic.
and Utah then jumped to the Big 12 before discussions between the Pac-12 schools and the ACC advanced to the stage of actual offers.athletic director, long has been a believer in the marriage between academics and athletics in college sports, and it should not be surprising that he is intrigued by the academic profile of the schools under consideration.
If they cannot land in the ACC, they may need to consider independence or dropping down from the Power 5 to the Group of 5, to either the Mountain West or the American Athletic Conference — both of whom would be interested in any or all of the four remaining Pac-12 members.