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FSU football: What does The Alliance mean for the Noles?

By Kelvin Hunt

In a photo illustration composed of two images, the stadium seats of Doak Campbell Stadium are empty during a Florida State football game. There is a possibility that this is what the football season could look like.Doak Empty Illustration
In a photo illustration composed of two images, the stadium seats of Doak Campbell Stadium are empty during a Florida State football game. There is a possibility that this is what the football season could look like.Doak Empty Illustration /
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FSU football is in the ACC conference, which trails the SEC and B1G monetarily. The SEC adding Oklahoma and Texas recently shifted college football and caught the other Power 5 leagues off-guard.

I think the consensus among FSU football fans is the ACC sucks as a conference. The Noles carried the conference forever, but league officials didn’t want to make football a priority until it was too late.

Not to mention the favoritism is shown for schools on Tobacco Road. When the news of Oklahoma and Texas bolting to the SEC came about, Nole fans wondered what was next for FSU?

Could they get out of the ACC’s grant of rights to join another conference? Would the ACC expand by getting Notre Dame to join?

Neither was likely, but then rumors about the ACC, B1G, and Pac-12 began to emerge about a possible Alliance.

That news came to fruition Tuesday:

It’s all a handshake deal with no formal contracts involved. There’s no monetary gain at the moment. The latter is something that COULD happen eventually depending on how things shake out.

However, I believe the only reason the Alliance came about was to delay the expansion of the College Football Playoff to 12 teams. The SEC’s addition of Oklahoma and Texas meant that the conference would likely gain the majority of those playoff slots. I think the Alliance could try to rival ESPN’s stronghold when it comes to playoff TV rights.  There’s no secret SEC and ESPN are in bed with one another, and have been for years.

The Alliance helps to potentially stabilize things for the ACC, but that means FSU will continue to be in the conference that lags behind the SEC and B1G monetarily.

In a sense, the Alliance doesn’t change anything for the Noles right now aside from some potential basketball games against west coast teams since the ACC and B1G play one another every year.

FSU could potentially play some west coast teams or B1G teams in the future, but those games would be years away since football schedules are made years in advance.

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