Paul Finebaum addresses whether the ACC or Big 12 is in a better spot right now

Paul Finebaum claimed the Big 12 is in a better spot than the ACC as it currently stands in college football and expansion.

With realignment all the rage, Finebaum pointed towards the Big 12’s recent moves despite losing Oklahoma and Texas. The ACC meanwhile, it looks like teams are trying to leave.

Finebaum joined McElroy and Cubelic and put the Big 12 over the ACC going into the fall.

“I believe it’s the Big 12 because the Big 12 is ascending, Greg,” Finebaum said. “The Big 12 looks like it made a very good move with the four schools that they got. I mean, we may have looked at it on the day it happened and go ‘Well that’s not exactly Southern Cal and UCLA and Oklahoma and Texas, but they’re all quality in their own way. So the Big 12 still seems to be desirous. I mean, you mentioned Rick George from Colorado. That might not be the end of it. Who’s trying to get in the ACC today? Nobody. Who’s trying to get out? Everybody.”

The Big 12 added BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF and those four schools begin their Big 12 stints this season. Texas and Oklahoma remained in the Big 12 for this season, but head to the SEC next fall.

Now, the ACC’s future could be murky compared to the Big 12.

“Clemson, FSU, Miami, UNC, NC State, Virginia & Virginia Tech are ‘The Magnificent 7’ ACC schools, sources told Action Network HQ,” Brett McMurphy wrote on Twitter. “These schools, Ross Dellenger reported, have met in past several months, w/lawyers examining grant-of-rights to determine just how unbreakable it is. ACC deal runs thru 2036.”

One of the largest looming topics of this year’s meetings was revenue distribution, as schools like Clemson, Florida State, and Miami were expected to push for revenue distribution models that will put more money in their pockets and less in other members of the conference.“I would put my foot down,” Finebaum said of the ACC spring meetings earlier this month.

“Because college sports, especially college football, can be cyclical and there was a long period when Florida State was a non-entity. And I think you made the point perfectly, you took to the Big 12, you especially look at the University of Texas, which we all know went out and did their own deal. Credit to them, but it helped expedite at least three, maybe four, schools from the Big 12.”