College football realignment: Clemson, Florida State will leave ACC, analyst predicts

are already facing the ACC in court over the conference's enormous exit fees, a move that many insiders predict will find those schools leaving the league in what would be the next major phase of college football realignment."It's not if. It's when. I was at ACC Spring Meetings a couple of weeks ago, and... basically sources with the ACC told me no surprise, the ACC's going to fight this to the bitter end.

some talk recently around North Carolina entertaining an exit after a school trustee said he was interested in leaving the ACC If the ACC's worst case scenario does come true, and if the SEC didn't express interest in adding Clemson or Florida State, the Big Ten would be the other most likely destination.

McMurphy singled out the SEC, however, as a possible landing spot for North Carolina, should that school ever elect to leave the ACC.To leave the conference before that date, a school would have to fork over an exit fee of nine figures.

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