ACC mulls adding Cal, Stanford

Atlantic Coast Conference presidents and chancellors held a conference call Tuesday but took no action on West Coast expansion with California and Stanford, a person with knowledge of the situation told the Associated Press.

Another source told the AP that the ACC’s conversations also include the possibility of adding Southern Methodist, the Dallas school currently in the American Athletic Conference.

The Pac-12 is down to four schools committed to the conference beyond the upcoming school year. This will be the last season in the Pac-12 for USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington, which are all headed for the Big Ten in 2024. Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah will join the Big 12 next year.

Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey said on the SEC Network's “Paul Finebaum Show” that if the Pac-12 were to fold, decreasing the number of Bowl Subdivision conferences from 10 to nine, that would probably reopen discussions about the format for the expanded 12-team playoff that goes into effect in 2024.

Georgia has fired football recruiting staffer Victoria “Tori” Bowles, who survived a January crash that killed player Devin Willock and another recruiting staffer, less than a month after she filed a lawsuit against the university’s athletic association. The school stated she was dismissed because she refused to cooperate with an internal investigation into the crash.

Her attorneys claim she is being retaliated against for filing the lawsuit, which also names former Georgia player and first-round NFL draft pick