After Clemson joined Florida State in suing the ACC. After In a legal document filed in Pickens County, S.C., Clemson argued the ACC’s withdrawal fee from the ACC was “exorbitant.”
“The revenues generated by the media agreements between the ACC and ESPN are significantly lower than the revenues generated by media agreements negotiated by the Big Ten and the SEC with their media providers,” Clemson said in its lawsuit, “resulting in a dramatic gap between the revenues paid by those other conferences to their members and the revenues paid by the ACC to its members. In the coming years, this already large revenue gap is only expected to grow.”
Clemson’s Projected New Home
The Projected conference Clemson will head to is the SEC, according to 24/7 sports
Projection: SEC
Clemson’s made it clear it doesn’t want to be left behind as a revenue-driver in the ACC and the SEC best seems like a fit.”
Clemson routinely comes up in SEC conversations as one of the league’s next primary targets. The Tigers are one of the “Big 3” football powers in the ACC, joining Florida State and Miami (FL), and they’re the only ones with national championship hardware to show for it in recent years.
Clemson to the SEC would make the most sense, considering all of the factors of location, teams in the conference, and history they have with some of those teams, like Alabama, who they’ve met with in the College Football Playoff multiple times like in 2016 and LSU, with Joe Burrow and Trevor Lawrence facing off, with LSU coming on top in 2020.