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For football, yes. All other sports, no. Travel is extensive. As long as there is no threat of super conferences (a big if), the ACC is the best over all fit, even if most teams suck right now. It is the best academic P4 conference - Cal, Stan, NC, Va, Duke, Wake, BC. Rivalries with Clem, FSU, Mia, Cal, Stan, SMU make for national attention. The Big 12 has nothing. The private schools - TCU and Baylor - are not elite, just expensive. The public schools are high schools with ash trays. No thanks. Living in Austin and having a daughter just go through the college process (A&M), I can attest to the institutional weakness of these schools. No reason to associate with them. In the ACC, a conference championship is always achievable. ND’s formal presence should stabilize the conference and Clem/FSU stay. These teams will get better and the ACC has longer term potential than the Big 12. Its only independence, the ACC or Big Ten. Sorry to bear truth.