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Clemson and Florida State, and maybe Notre Dame?

https://onwardstate.com/2024/04/01/florida-state-clemson-to-join-big-ten-in-2025/

April Fools . . .
For now.

Plus they are a basketball school now.  Like Tennessee and Alabama

ESecPN will tell the SEC who it needs.

That's been the case for a while, problem is, you are either eating or you are being eaten.  I would say the Big Ten and SEC have reached a point where they no longer have to fear that, but I would have said that before Texas, Oklahoma, USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon jumped as well.

I've gone from wanting this to stop to just wanting those two conferences to absorb enough, to just reset with those 2 conferences.

It's a real shame we had to involve all of the other sports to get here.  Lots of issues could have been solved if football had just broken away from the conferences 20 years ago

Could not have put it better.

And Fox will tell the B1G.

But in reality, ESPN isn't going to pay the SEC considerably more for Clemson, so ESPN will not be suggesting the addition of Clemson.  They take away more than they bring to the table.

They already have. Fox wanted the West Coast, and it got the West Coast.

It's clear Fox wants FSU, UNC, UVA, Miami, GT and ND. It's all out there in the open.

Who knows when, is the big question. FSU, UNC and Clemson are in a war with the ACC. If others join the war, the ACC is over. The XII will need to guard against being raided by the SEC for its value schools too.

It's a real shame we had to involve all of the other sports to get here.  Lots of issues could have been solved if football had just broken away from the conferences 20 years ago

I did not agree with this initially because I always thought it was kinda neat that even in an obscure sport an athlete got to compete against their school's major FB rivals. Ie, a swimmer or rower at tOSU/M still gets to compete against their school's FB rival. 

The national mega-conferences make sense both financially and competitively for FB and, to a lesser extent, BB. People will watch Ohio State play in Autzen or UCLA play in the Big House and the money needed to fly tOSU to Eugene or UCLA to Ann Arbor is EASILY recouped by the TV money those games generate but it really makes no sense to fly Oregon's swimmers and rowers to Columbus nor Michigan's to Los Angeles. 

There's nothing left in the B12 of value to the SEC.  If there were, the SEC would already have it.

Mitt Romney could shake some value out of it