re: SEC reaction to Wash - Oregon to Big 10

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The SEC can't expand. ESPN owns SEC and ACC. They aren't going to pay $60 million for FSU in the SEC when they already own it for $30 million. And that goes for Clemson and everyone else in the ACC.

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No, I actually think it might be the opposite.

If the Big 10 (non-ESPN) can piece together a lineup that challenges SEC (ESPN) viewership, one of the first thought processes at the network will be to find a way to push Clemson, Florida State and whoever else to the SEC. It's almost like having someone in the minors, waiting to call them up.

Right now, ESPN is paying the ACC a lot of money for the right to televise a few Clemson, Fla State and maybe Va Tech and Miami games. Nobody goes looking for UNC-Pitt, or Duke-Boston College, etc.
When the money really starts to get tight, ESPN might try to find a way out of the ACC deal, up to and including helping to kill that conference, and throw all their eggs into the SEC. And if in doing so, it can keep the few marquee names in the ACC in their pocket, so much the better.