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Some rumors coming out that the wheels are in motion for A&M, Oklahoma, OSU, and an unnamed ACC school (assumed to be Clemson) to move to the SEC. At this point, you have to wonder if A&M and Texas aren't working together to get rid of of their tagalongs.
The ACC and ESPN apparently don't have a renegotiation trigger for adding teams, so it will be interesting to see what the long-term effects of them losing a team might be. They may decide to sacrifice their championship game and split their TV pie 11-ways (rather than 12) or try to raid the Big East.
However, the Big East, as the last available conference to sell their TV rights (in 2012) are expected to get a bigger per-team payout than the current ACC deal (which was signed at the beginning of the renegotation cycle and before the PAC 12 blew everything out of the water). That's why there has been some talk about Maryland and/or BC to the Big East (I don't think either happens), as well as some talk of ACC teams looking to the Big Ten (and vice versa).
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