(03-07-2018 05:41 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  

(03-07-2018 03:53 PM)orangefan Wrote:  I'm sure this has been posted on this board before, but interesting article about the order of events in 1990. Basically, Florida State was the SEC's first choice ahead of SCar or the U for the league's 12th slot. The ACC lobbied hard to bring in Florida State. After FSU chose the ACC, Miami equivocated about its interest in the SEC, while SCar had already voted to accept an invitation if it came. The SEC decided to move ahead with the school that was ready to commit. The interesting question is, what would have happened to both the ACC and the Big East if FSU had chosen the SEC.

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2011/1...onference/

Florida St to the SEC in the early 90s would have changed everything.

If the ACC expanded at all that year it would have had to have been South Carolina or possibly the Gamecocks and Miami as a pair.

If Miami never joined the Big East that conference's nascent football league would have been far weaker.

Without Florida St in the ACC in think that the ACC would have been in a much more vulnerable position in the 2010s had the SEC come calling for the South Carolina pair.

Without Florida State and Miami, I doubt that either the ACC or Big East would have been AQ conferences when the BCS started. That would have changed the entire trajectory of college football, IMO.