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Syracuse Orange: FSU among ACC members against expansion – shocker

Media reports are stating that four Atlantic Coast Conference schools oppose the league adding Pac-12 Conference members California and Stanford, and the Syracuse Orange is not one of them.

As first reported by Pat Forde and Richard Johnson of Sports Illustrated, those four ACC members not in favor of adding Cal and Stanford are Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina and N.C. State.

Forde and Johnson noted, as have other national writers, that 12 of the ACC’s 15 members must support the move for Cal and Stanford to come on board.

At present, it appears that just 11 ACC teams are in favor of this particular expansion possibility, including Notre Dame, which to me is somewhat hypocritical, because the Fighting Irish isn’t a full-time ACC member, being an independent in football, yet Notre Dame is pushing for the conference to add Cal and Stanford as full-time members.