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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 5063980, member: 37"] It seems you are correct. From this ESPN article: [URL='https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40574931/acc-grant-rights-explained-clemson-florida-state-lawsuits']STUCK, STUCK, STUUCK!!![/URL] [I]Oregon, Washington and other Pac-12 schools were free to leave the conference at the end of the 2023-24 season because its deal had expired. Texas and Oklahoma just joined the SEC this summer -- two years after they agreed to join -- because both schools had to partially wait out the Big 12's grant of rights. (That agreement actually runs one more year, but the parties agreed to an early separation that costs Texas and Oklahoma a [URL='https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/35625879/oklahoma-texas-exit-big-12-conference-2023-24-season']reported [/URL]$50 million each.) What's different in the ACC is that its grant of rights runs through summer 2036, putting teams eager to depart on a far different timeline than Texas or Oklahoma faced. The reason for this is, essentially, the existence of the ACC Network. In 2016, all ACC members signed an addendum to the existing 2013 grant of rights, extending the agreement for 20 years at, according to Florida State's legal filing, the behest of ESPN, which needed a long-term agreement before investing in the launch of a new network in which it would serve as a 50-50 partner with the ACC.[/I] This article is worth the read.[I] [/I] [/QUOTE]