CFB analyst bold prediction Miami Hurricanes leave ACC by 2026
In the CBS Sports “ACC expert picks 2023: Most overrated and underrated teams, projected order of finish, bold predictions” college sports analyst Jerry Palm stated the Clemson Tigers, Florida State Seminoles and Miami Hurricanes will leave the ACC by 2026 setting the impetus for the next round of conference realignment.
Florida State will remain in the ACC through at least the 2024-25 school year after the August 15 deadline of an intention to leave the conference in 2024 passed. Miami Hurricanes athletic director Dan Radakovich told ESPN earlier this month that it is in the best interests of the ACC to stay together.
Radakovich left Clemson for Miami in December 2021. Florida President Richard McCullough and Athletic Director Michael Alford have been very vocal about what they see as an unfair financial distribution model in the ACC. Florida State believes that they produce far more money for the ACC than it receives.
Radakovich has taken a more equitable view and what is in the best interests of the ACC as well as Miami. There have been reports that Clemson, Florida State, North Carolina, Miami, North Carolina State, Virginia and Virginia Tech met to determine a potential new financial distribution model for the ACC.
Florida State, Clemson, Miami, and Virginia Tech leaving the ACC before 2036 is inevitable, and the seismic changes in college football are not over. The next major collapse is on the way. Do you want to bitch and moan about the next collapse coming, cry about it, or accept the… pic.twitter.com/0O5JWrIowb
— Big Ten information. College football fan (@Genetics56) August 15, 2023
"Jerry Palm: Clemson, Florida State and Miami, at a minimum, will leave the ACC but not before the 2026 season. That will be the impetus for the next round of realignment."
Predicting what will happen three years out in conference realignment is definitely a bold prediction. A year ago, no one could have projected the chaos this summer let alone three years from now. The ACC will likely have to renegotiate its TV contract to stay together. The ACC grant of rights runs through 2036.
Next. CBS Sports analysts name Miami most overrated AC team. dark
The ACC exit fee is $120 million but the grant of right means the conference owns any school’s television revenue through 2036. If Clemson, Florida State, Miami, or any other ACC team leaves the conference they could potentially offset the amount of money owed the ACC from revenue in the Big 10 or SEC.