Clemson University is joining Florida State University in its legal battle to leave the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The school broke the news Tuesday afternoon when it filed a 28-page complaint against the league in Pickens County, South Carolina.
FSU and Clemson have both inked media rights deals with the ACC for the next 12 years, but according to the lawsuit, both schools feel as if the league owes them more money for their televised games on ESPN.
Other programs have cashed in on lucrative media deals, especially schools in the Southeastern and Big 10 conference. FSU has attempted to leave the conference, argues the cost of the departure—estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars—is unreasonable and unworkable.
Meanwhile, Clemson's legal filing comes the same week a judge in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina is scheduled to take up FSU’s motion to dismiss the ACC’s filed lawsuit to try to keep the school from leaving the conference.