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"The ACC’s objective is to take that Florida property for the next dozen years after FSU exits the ACC and ceases to be a 'Conference Institution,'" the filing states. Is Clemson leaving the ACC?
The final straw might have been the FSU football team going undefeated and winning the ACC championship but still being left out of the College Football Playoff. Outrage from all over Florida ...
Florida State, along with Clemson and other high-tier schools in the conference, has for years railed against the ACC and its revenue-sharing plan. Most of the anger is centered around the TV deal ...
So it's attempting to leave the ACC, its home since 1991, and its lawsuit filed in December 2023 — less than three weeks after FSU’s College Football Playoff snub — is meant to convince a ...
The ACC is arguing that it owns Florida State’s media rights under a Grant of Rights deal that every team in the conference signed. To leave the league, FSU would owe the ACC an exit fee ...
But remaining in the ACC under new financial terms could be still be the best option for Florida State and Clemson, the league's two most recent football national champions. It is unclear whether either would find homes in the Big Ten or SEC — the richest of the Power Four leagues — if they were able to leave the ACC through lawsuits.
Clemson and FSU first played in 1970, predating Florida State's membership in the ACC. The actual rivalry started to emerge in 1988 when the No. 3 Clemson Tigers hosted the No. 10 Seminoles in a "clash of styles" marked by FSU's highly touted skill talent and passing attack, versus Clemson's well regarded option, linemen and linebackers, that was ultimately decided by Leroy Butler's 78-yard ...
Clemson recently joined FSU and sued the ACC, stating in its legal filing that the ACC's $140 million penalty to leave the league is “exorbitant."