As you may have heard, the ACC has expanded its conference. The ACC voted to accept Cal, Stanford and SMU to the conference Sept. 1, bringing the conference’s total to 18 teams. There is a lot of controversy around it, and some students have mixed opinions on it.

“I think it stinks because, in college sports, the conferences are supposed to be regional, but now they are expanding it, and it’s not even regional anymore; it’s all about making money,” senior Brady Schwier said.

Students have different opinions on the schools that were added to the ACC.

“I think they were valuable additions to the ACC and will provide more competition for all the teams already in the ACC,” senior Peymon Ledesma said.

This addition will have a crucial impact to ACC football’s future.

“I think it will negatively impact the strength of ACC football because they are really weak teams,” senior Jackson Briley said.

A lot of conferences are looking for new teams to add to their conferences. But why though?

“In my opinion I think that the driving desire has always been more revenue because that is what the game has sadly come to,” junior Maggie Sullivan said.

“I think Clemson, FSU and UNC will heavily consider leaving, but in the end if they were to leave, I think Clemson would be the school to do it,” Sullivan said.

It’s hard to predict what will happen in the ACC moving forward, but some people have some ideas about what will happen.

“I predict that the ACC will lose a lot of schools/teams and fans. I feel like they’ll have a very negative future ahead of them,” senior Braeylyn Mayfield said.

Overall, the ACC expansion has some mixed opinions, but this will forever change the future of college conferences.