The ACC has a GoR through 2036 and enough members that want the league to survive that its not going to collapse in 12 years let alone 2. One of the main reasons the ACC expanded with three schools is to keep the league above the 15 minimum in order to maintain the existing deal with Disney/ESPN. You've also added three ironclad votes in favor of keeping the league together.
The ACCN is a boon for ESPN with nearly 50m subs. They are heavily incentivized to see the ACC survive. Further, Notre Dame's independent status in football and ACC membership for all other sports is vital for them. ND was one of the biggest proponents of adding SMU/Stanford/CAL.
In your doomsday scenario there are still going to be a handful of ACC schools with nowhere to go. SMU would likely band together with them and raid Oregon State, Washington State, Memphis, San Diego State, Tulane, and South Florida to make something out of the rubble.
The PAC-12 needs to become the de-facto "best of the rest" conference which may still maintain access to the playoff in a post P4/G5 split. That should be the goal. To do that they'll need to get at least 12 (probably 14-16) schools from the MWC/AAC.
West - SDSU, Fresno State, Boise State, UNLV, Oregon State, Washington State, Colorado State, Air Force
East - UTSA, North Texas, Memphis, Tulane, South Florida, East Carolina, Navy, Army
True, still the only player of Vietnamese heritage to play in the NFL. False, (but close) the Chick-fil-A is in Ft Worth at the Montgomery Center.
Dat and Becky live in Boerne west of San Antonio.
His is an amazing story of achieving the American Dream.
Dat's family escaped from a horrendous socialist/communist regime in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon (1975) and Dat was born that year in a refugee camp.
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