And perhaps most importantly for any school looking to make a break from the ACC, a university will retain its future media rights when leaving the conference. The media rights and the exit fees for leaving the ACC were a main point of contention at Clemson and FSU.

The ACC announced Tuesday that it had resolved its legal disputes with Clemson and Florida State, the football powerhouses that threatened the conference’s future viability with legal threats over the terms of their possible departures.