The prevailing line of thought from college sports industry insiders is that with Notre Dame rebuffing the Big Ten or, at the very least, taking its time about its decision, Oregon will not be fast-tracked to the Big Ten. Oregon’s Noah Sewell, center, encourages his treammates during practice as the Ducks return from spring break. We’ll include predictions on the ACC schools’ destinations from Jeffrey Fann of the ACC site All Sports Discussion. Let’s look at each Pac-12 and ACC school and consider the fallout of various scenarios.
This gives them time to plot a media strategy and beef up the value of their football and basketball packages. The Pac-12 and ACC would both love stability and a general slowdown in realignment moves. If the Big 12 is going to get Arizona State, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah, it is more likely to happen quickly rather than slowly. As we wrote earlier in the week, the Big 12 is the conference that wants to strike quickly and raid the Pac-12 before its member schools can think twice about jumping ship. We’re not going to predict whether the merger happens, but it’s clear ESPN is making a move to try to prevent specific ACC schools - we’re thinking North Carolina, Duke, and Virginia in particular - from going to the Big Ten and the Fox umbrella.Įverything about this situation is fluid. Will a Pac-12 merger with the ACC happen? Conversations developed on Wednesday, with the new piece of the puzzle being that the ACC Network (an ESPN property) could televise games with Pac-12 teams to give the ACC Network more inventory and instantly increase the value of that network.
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