SMU, California, and Stanford are officially set to join the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in 2024 at the beginning of the 2024-25 school year. The worst kept secret in college sports is official now, as stamped via social media by the conference and schools.
Essentially SMU bought there way in foregoing 9 years (and some sources say it's really 10 years) of payments from the conference, with Stanford and Cal yielding less than the full payment value (~30% or roughly $8 million).
Geoff Calkins discussed the news on Friday's (9/1/23) Geoff Calkins Show:
Mike Aresco issued a statement on behalf of the American Athletic Conference, which includes Memphis, explaining the conference will not expand westward but will instead look elsewhere: