RE: ACC 1953: Auburn, Florida, Georgia and GT join
If Auburn, Florida, GT, and UGa joined the ACC in 53m then Duke exits the league in the mid 1960's.
Duke continued in the ACC after 1962 because they had been successful in implementing the 800 SAT rule. An ACC that consisted of UF, UGA, GT, Auburn, SC, NC State, UNC, Duke, WF, UVa, and MD does not pass the 800 SAT rule. Consequently SC never leaves. Duke stays out for decades and is not reconsidered until the B10 starts the expansion follies with PSU. If Duke has maintained it's basketball and Olympic sports, I can see the ACC inviting FSU and Duke to make 12.
The SEC would have been ratteling around with 7 or 8 if Tulane stayed. As soon as the B10 goes for PSU, the SEC breaks up the SWC with a merger with Texas, TAMU, Arkansas, TT, and one other if the SEC had been at 7.
The SEC is at 12, the ACC is at 12. If the Big 10 goes to 12 with Nebraska, the SEC invites OU and Mizzou to go to 14. The ACC invites VT and Pitt to go to 14. The Big 10 invites Syracuse and BC for the tv markets to go to 14.
ACC North - Pitt, VT, UVa, UNC, NCSU, WF, SC
ACC South - Florida, FSU, Clemson, GT, UGA, Duke, Auburn
SEC West - OU, Texas, TT, TAMU, Mizzou, Arkansas, (Baylor or Tulane)
SEC East - LSU, Ole Miss, MSU, Bama, TN, Vandy, UK
B10 East - BC, Syracuse, PSU, OSU, Indiana, Purdue, MSU
B10 West - Michigan, NW, Illinois, Wisky, Minn, Iowa, Neb
The following are on the outside looking in - ND, Miami, Kansas, West Va, Rutgers, Iowa State, Cincinnati, Louisville, KSU, OSU, TCU, Houston, SMU, UCF, USF.
Cultures are now a little different than today so the big players could fit as follows:
ND - B10/ACC
Miami - ACC/SEC/B10
Kansas - SEC/B10
West Va - ACC/SEC
Louisville - ACC
Rutgers - B10
The biggest change in the ACC and SEC is that you likely end up with league office of the ACC in Atlanta and league offices of the SEC in Houston - making the ACC a little more southern and the SEC a little more southwestern.
To use overly broad characterizations, the SEC is the unreconstructed South. The ACC is the reconstructed Tidewater/Atlantic and the B10 is the Midwestern Yankees they have always been. (I use this language to explain certain value sets, certain religions, and certain social structures)
(This post was last modified: 07-27-2020 04:11 PM by Statefan.)
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