To guard against the potential departure of schools like Florida State, the ACC proactively added two of the four remaining Pac-12 schools left behind after the Big Ten and Big 12 poached most of the conference over the summer.
Bay Area rivals Cal and Stanford will begin play in the ACC next fall, along with SMU from the AAC.
In its legal filing against the ACC on Friday, FSU claimed that it preferred another Pac-12 program left behind by the latest round of conference realignment: Oregon State.