Maybe the timing is off as Florida St and Miami hadn’t yet quite risen to prominence but what if South Carolina, GT, Florida St, and Miami had decided to start a conference together in the early 70s.

You obviously need more schools than that to be a conference but they would have had plenty of options to fill out their numbers:

VT, WVU, ECU, Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis, Tulane, USM

Maybe there’s a chance the promise of an alternative league to the ACC allows South Carolina to lure Clemson into the fold.

Would those 4 core members be able to resist the SEC/ACC in the early 90s? Would this league still be around today?

What does the ACC’s future look like?