Penn State can't sell the Philly DMA (the BTN has failed to raise enough there) so I imagine Temple wouldn't either.
To sell Philadelphia, you have to have basketball. The Eagles is all the city needs for football. For College Sports, Philadelphia focuses on basketball. The city has sponsored several major events of the NCAA Men's basketball tournament including the final four over the years. I don't see much basketball coming from Penn State. I don't remember them winning the NCAA basketball tournament. I'm not sure I remember them being in the field of 64. In basketball, Philadelphia sponsors the Big 5 (Temple, Villanova, Pennsylvania, LaSalle, and St. Joe's). I find it similar to the Big 4 in North Carolina albeit I can only remember Villanova winning a championship where the NC Big 4 has three different schools winning one. I know most of the emphasis of Conference Realignment focuses on football, but in the East Basketball is also very important and the ACC plays it competitively. It's the primary reason UConn is a great fit too. Temple is coming out of the Atlantic 10 where they are very competitive. Upgrading to the ACC from the A10 is not as large a jump as from the Mid America Conference would be.
Of all of the Philadelphia Big 5 only Temple has FBS football. I'm assuming Villanova has nixed the idea. Work would be necessary to provide further emphasis here to grow the Temple football program and to overcome poor performance in the 80s and 90s. I see a recent renovation of the football complex taking place. The building of an indoor practice facility. The bowl victory at the New Mexico Bowl. Discussion from the Temple President about an on Campus Stadium. This is all having been in the Mid America Conference. What can they do in the American Athletic?
I don't view the work Temple must do in football as any more challenging than the work involved with Cincinnati, who is also located in a professional town. Cincinnati has Ohio State in the area much like Temple would have Penn State. Because of the size of the market, for Cincinnati to overcome the popularity of Ohio State could possibly be more difficult than for Temple to overcome Penn State. Ohio State is competitive in basketball losing any advantage in basketball. Both schools would get the anticipated ACC Network on the air in their respective markets. I just think Temple has a bigger one to work with.
This is probably all a moot point because many of the current ACC members will always view Temple as the Temple of the 90s in the Big East Conference and are not open to consider Temple. I see Temple as great market presence opportunity for the ACC. They see Temple as a bad football team in the 90s that no one supported including the school prompting expulsion from the Big East. Villanova was blocking Temple basketball the whole time, so the Big East never had the experience of Temple basketball. It was in the Atlantic 10. I am interested in how the school will do now that they have everything in the same place.