Florida State and Clemson could leave the ACC behind in football, join or form a super league, and owe the ACC only a fraction of the exit fee it would otherwise have to pay. However feasible an actual college football “super league” might be is beside the point; according to a report from The Athletic’s Matt Baker, the settlement the ACC and its 2 disgruntled schools agreed to earlier this year may have created an exit ramp to a football-only conference of champions.
The concept of a “super league” isn’t a new one. It was briefly a possibility in European football before fans rose up en masse to reject the idea. As the business of college football has seemingly outgrown the archaic NCAA framework, some have suggested a super league is the answer. With a coast-to-coast Big Ten and an outright dominant SEC, we might already have de facto super leagues.
But Baker’s reporting for The Athletic, which included open records requests to both Florida State and Clemson in order to obtain a copy of the 68-page settlement with the ACC, revealed that the mere hypothetical was at least discussed between all parties.
From Baker’s report:
Officially called an “option of limited withdrawal,” it’s the juiciest part of the agreement and new information, regardless of whether it’s feasible.
Suppose at least six members want to leave the same sport to join a “single sport league, conference or other association” alongside other schools. In that case, they’ll owe $75 million or 50 percent of the current withdrawal figure (whichever is greater). In practice, that would allow, say, Florida State, Clemson, Miami, North Carolina and a few other top programs to leave for a super league in football while remaining ACC members in basketball, baseball and every other sport.
According to Baker, the new agreed-upon fee to leave the ACC during the 2025-26 fiscal year is $165 million. That figure is expected to decrease by $18 million annually, before settling at $75 million from 2030 to 2036. Every ACC school signed the agreement in May, according to Baker.
Florida State had previously estimated that it would cost upwards of $500 million to break with the ACC before the Grant of Rights expires in 2036.
Although the path is there, Florida State and Clemson both have added incentive now to remain in the ACC. According to Baker, 40% of the conference’s media revenue will be distributed equally between the schools. Of the remaining 60%, three-quarters will be divided up based on football TV viewership and one-quarter by men’s basketball TV viewership.
Unequal revenue distribution was something that was proposed to keep the Pac-12 together before it collapsed several years ago, but it was never formally put into practice. According to Baker, the ACC is the first conference to use TV figures as a metric for conference payouts.
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