While Cal and Stanford are on their way to the Atlantic Coast Conference, the ACC might not be on their way to Cal and Stanford.
Reports are surfacing that a scheduling component of the western schools being added to the conference is that their Olympic Sports (i.e. Softball) would travel to Dallas to compete to reduce travel costs for all programs. While new ACC add Southern Methodist would supply facilities for the endeavor, the proposal lacks a softball specific solution as SMU does not offer the sport. Such a proposal could in fact eliminate conference home games for the Bears and Cardinal.