ACC Football Daily Links — Big 12/SEC Bowl Deal Won’t Cause Conference Realignment Avalanche, Kill ACC

Monday through Friday each week, we compile the best links on ACC football from around the web.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

‘Champions Bowl’ Won’t Freeze Out ACC (ESPN’s ACC Blog)

Much of the initial knee-jerk reaction to the partnership announced on Friday between the Big 12 and SEC was doom and gloom for the ACC. The marriage between two of the strongest conferences in the country would squeeze out and freeze out the weaker ACC. The Rose Bowl wannabe has already been portrayed as the cool lunch table where the ACC wasn’t invited to sit…

Bowling for Dollars: New SEC/Big 12 Bowl and Conference Realignment Rumors (Frank the Tank’s Slant)

The SEC and Big 12 had a major announcement this past Friday that the two conferences are creating a new bowl pitting their champions against each other (provided that in the event either or both champions end up in the new college football playoff, the bowl will select other “deserving” teams from those conferences)…

ACC Needs to Roll Out Green Carpet For Irish (Fox Sports Carolinas)

If Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John Swofford is intent on the ACC maintaining its status as one of the power conferences in college football, he needs to roll out the green carpet and do everything in his power to lure Notre Dame to the league. The huge news that the SEC and Big 12 struck a deal to stage an annual bowl game, matching their champions much like the deal the Pac-12 and Big Ten have regarding the Rose Bowl…

One century and 20 years ago, three forward-thinking businessmen joined together in east Texas hoping to find riches that even their wildest dreams could not understand. George O’Brien, George Carroll and Patillo Higgins formed the Gladys City Oil, Gas and Manufacturing company with the purpose of making exploratory drilling in the depths of the Spindletop, Texas earth…

SEC-Big 12 Postseason Agreement Creates Another Problem for ACC Football (Daily Press)

Another weekend, another PR crisis for the ACC. Another weekend, another chorus of tweets, blogs and columns forecasting the conference’s demise. All of which bring to mind the following lines. “Lighten up, Francis,”  Sergeant Hulka said to Psycho in the movie “Stripes”…

One Small Piece of Advice From Syracuse to Our New ACC Friends (Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician)

Fellow ACC schools, Technically, we’re not the new guys in town. We’re not in even town yet. But we’ve got plans to come to your town where, at that point, we’ll be one of the new guys in town. When that happens, you can pour beer on our heads or put Icy Hot in our jockstraps or take our third tier television broadcasting rights or whatever it is you do to initiate new ACC schools…

Q&A With Clemson Athletic Director Terry Don Phillips (TigerNet.com)

Clemson Athletic Director Terry Don Phillips agreed to a sit-down with TigerNet Monday afternoon, and we covered a lot of ground in the time allotted. Of, course the biggest topics were possible conference realignment, the recent news of the bowl tie-in between the SEC and the Big XII and the ACC’s television deal, but we also asked about Dabo Swinney’s contract and facilities…

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