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STANFORD COACH TROY TAYLOR was at breakfast at the team hotel in Hawai’i, hours before the kickoff to the 2023 season, when he learned the ACC had officially voted to accept the Cardinal, Cal and SMU as new league members.
Though Stanford had a game to play that night, Taylor’s mind raced ahead to the new reality they suddenly had to confront. Chief among his thoughts: lengthy road trips to the East Coast. Taylor turned to senior associate athletic director Matt Doyle, their longtime football operations director, and said,
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