Report: ACC Insiders Wouldn't Be 'Shocked' If FSU Serves Formal Notice for 2025 Move

Florida State is reportedly ready to leave the ACC as the college athletics landscape continues to change with realignment.

While a university source told Sports Illustrated's Pat Forde no deal is close for Florida State to leave the conference, multiple ACC sources said that "they would not be shocked if the Seminoles serve formal notice of a 2025 move in a matter of days or weeks."

Earlier this month, Florida State President Richard McCullough said that the Seminoles would "very seriously consider leaving the ACC unless there was a radical change to the revenue distribution," according to ESPN's Andrea Adelson.

The ACC currently distributes the revenue it receives from its media rights deal equally among all members, and the conference's current deal with ESPN runs through 2036 with little room for renegotiation.

Under the conference's current deal, Florida State and Boston College are receiving the same amount of money despite vastly different investments in their respective athletic departments and viewership of their football programs.

With realignment and significant television contracts in conferences like the Big Ten and SEC, the ACC is about $30 million behind per year in TV revenue distribution, per Adelson.

If Florida State opts to leave the ACC, it is targeting 2025 to do so, as The Athletic's Nicole Auerbach reported that any team in the conference wanting to leave had until Aug. 15 to give its notice for a departure after the 2023-24 season.

The Florida State football program was once one of the nation's powerhouses, but it has unraveled in recent years, posting just one winning campaign in the last five seasons, which came in 2022 when the Seminoles went 10-3 in Mike Norvell's third season at the helm.

Florida State athletic director Michael Alford said in February that if the program wants to compete nationally, "something has to change moving forward," according to Auerbach.

That change could mean switching conferences, which seems like it may be on the horizon.