Report: ACC presidents schedule call regarding Cal, Stanford, SMU in expansion

The ACC presidents reportedly scheduled a call for Monday to discuss adding Cal, Stanford and SMU, according to Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger.

The presidents could even vote. This comes on the heels of ESPN’s Pete Thamel reporting there was momentum for the ACC to add the three schools this week.

Doing so would put the Pac-12 down to two schools for next season and SMU would make the jump to the Power Five.

“ACC presidents have scheduled a call Monday night to discuss & possibly vote on adding Cal, Stanford & SMU, sources tell Yahoo Sports,” Dellenger wrote on Twitter. “In the presented model, expansion would add ~$55M annually for ACC to share via incentive pool as we reported last week.”

If there is a vote, it seems like three schools will head to the ACC and the conference will have a west coast presence, and of course, a flag in the state of Texas.

In the event the ACC lands Stanford and Cal, Oregon State and Washington State would still be left without a home.

Thamel previously said Week 1 could be a possible deadline for the ACC to make a decision on expansion. Of course, the most important factor in the decision is how the finances line up.

“Those conversations are ongoing right now,” Thamel said Friday on College Football Live. “The athletic directors from the ACC met last night. They had a phone call and they will meet again. There has been no meeting determined as of yet. But I imagine these conversations are going to spill into next week. A week from today, I feel like there’s a soft deadline of Week 1 and the season starting. We’ll have some clarity on that. There’s still some optimism, there’s still feels like there’s some momentum for this to happen.

“It comes down to money, like most things in realignment, and how that money that SMU and ‘Cal-ford,’ as they’re called — Cal and Stanford — end up getting divided up in a success pool amongst the current ACC teams.”