I don't think Cal moves the needle (financially as an Athletic Department they're ****ed), and I recognize that Stanford FB is shit right now and their AD has budget problems.

However, Stanford still has one of the best athletic departments in the country and if they can be what they were at the end of Harbaugh's tenure and the majority of Shaw's, they can be an asset.

My only hope is this helps shakes things up enough where it's not UGA, Bama and Tosu in the championship game every year

And they still won't beat them.

College football will eventually follow the path of how the Premier League was formed, with the top 20 or so programs breaking away to form their own super conference.

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Long term, $30 million is way behind the Big 10 and SEC.

ACC officially adding Cal, Stanford and SMU.

Cal and Stanford in the ATLANTIC COAST Conference as their campuses overlook the Pacific… hilarious.

Dat travel

Cal and Stanford receive an undeserved lifeline.

This won't fix the ACC's football problem.

Maybe, maybe not. I'm guessing their gamble is Notre Dame. They already have them in all sports but football, throwing out that lifeline to one of their rivals in Stanford might just be an attempt to convince them to bring football on into the picture as well.

Whether it works or not is anybody's guess, but if it does it would be a valuable boost to that conference. Of course, the flip side to that is if it doesn't than this move only serves to be a drain.

Not sure why they did this as neither Cal or Stanford add anything to the ACC besides two more mouths to feed. SMU isn't getting anything for a while, so the ACC loses nothing adding them.

Just because I am not informed--what is the problem with ACC?
TV contract? schools suck?
just asking

So does that leave Oregon State and Washington homeless at the moment?

Man - the friggen Pac 10 really just vanished. That's remarkable.

20 years ago that would've seemed as unlikely as the SEC imploding would be to us now.