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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/lock_robster2022 on 2023-12-23 04:49:50.

Possibly just posturing to make a point, but good to know someone else was questioning the logic.

From the filing:

  1. Although Stanford and Cal are excellent schools with well-deserved outstanding academic reputations, they are each lacking in the lone metric that matters in the athletic conference market today, namely, Tier I media football appeal.
  2. Of the four remaining Pac-12 teams, Oregon State stood alone having finished this season ranked number 22 in the polls, while Cal was ranked number 56 and Stanford number 94 (out of a possible 133). fbs-washington-michigan/. Just as last year, this year Stanford and Cal finished in the bottom half of the Pac-12 in football standings.
  3. In demonstration that the ACC had missed the point of conference realignment, in making its ‘strategic’ conference realignment move, the ACC skipped over Oregon State in favor of Cal and Stanford, a recognition the ACC did not appreciate what had driven the Power Four Conference realignment in the first instance – Tier I media value in football