And the winner is...SMU?

According to Sports Illustrated, now that the dust has settled on the great football reshuffling, the ACC to which UC-Berkeley, Stanford, and SMU moved as of next year, will make Dallas a kind of hub to reduce travel costs. SMU is located in Dallas.

With college football realignment slowing down we are now without a Power 5 conference on the West Coast, and 10 of the 12 Pac-12 teams jumping ship to a conference across the country in 2024. Four programs are joining the Big Ten, which means Nebraska is their closest new opponent while Stanford and Cal are joining the ACC are closest to Louisville. However, one advantage that the ACC has in their new additions is the fact that they also added SMU which resides in Dallas.

A central location for the new schools and the current members that the conference may take advantage of according to recent reports. According to a report by Jon Wilner, the ACC is considering Dallas as a place programs can travel to for football, which will help limit travel on both eastern members and Cal and Stanford. This also seems like a decision that could work well in non-football sports who are playing multiple times a week...

Full story at https://www.si.com/college/stanford/football/acc-expansion-making-dallas-the-neutral-site-for-stanford-and-other-new-teams.