The first season with Cal, Stanford and SMU in the Atlantic Coast Conference coincided with one of the ACC’s worst seasons for its basketball image, so the ACC

Would the SEC be more willing to move to nine conference games if ESPN paid up? According to the Athletic, the network would be willing to add money to its media rights deal with the conference if the SEC adds a conference game to its schedule.

The conference is coming off a historically bad season by its standards and is looking to beef up its nonconference performance