Cal, Stanford & SMU join the ACC | Are we done with realignment?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Ari, Manny Navarro (not Diaz) and Chris react to Friday morning's vote by ACC presidents and chancellors to add California, Stanford, and SMU to the conference. What does this mean for the sport, and are we done with realignment?
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| 0:29.9 | Music Welcome to an emergency edition of until Saturday. I'm Ari Wasserman, joined by Chris Finini, who was in my house last night watching football, and Mani Diaz, who was the star of the Stars Matter podcast this week. |
| 0:57.3 | And we are here to talk about expansion because why would we get more than one day into the season without having to discuss this stuff? |
| 1:05.2 | But hopefully, Chris, this means it's coming to an end here soon. |
| 1:09.5 | On Friday, our Nicole Auerbach reports, everybody's reporting that Cal, |
| 1:15.2 | Stanford and SMU are on their way to the ACC, |
| 1:17.9 | which to me makes it feel like there's not much left to do. |
| 1:23.0 | I don't know. |
| 1:23.4 | What's your take on this, Chris? |
| 1:25.3 | Yeah, there is maybe one move left, and that is what Oregon State and Washington State will do. |
| 1:31.9 | The American and the Mountain West both want them. |
| 1:35.1 | So if they pick one of those conferences, we may finally be done with realignment for a good chunk of time. |
| 1:42.2 | I think we all kind of want that. |
| 1:46.3 | So whatever you feel about the ACC adding these schools, if you wanted realignment to stop, this was the quickest way to make |
| 1:52.0 | that happen. Mani, what's your biggest takeaway from all this? Well, I think if you're not going to the |
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