The Realignment Scorecard

I think he is right #1 and #5.  The rest are debatable.

Regarding the ACC:

" And, hey, depth is a secondary issue when the league can ride Florida State to a national championship"

I disagree.....depth is THE issue in the ACC and hoping for FSU to carry the national title banner every year won't work.  It wouldn't work for any conference.

For the ACC, the issue is especially concerning because the 1/2 teams that have a chance for the national title are limited resource wise.

The ACC must have depth to survive.

The Realignment Scorecard

The 2014 Landscape

"1. SEC

East: Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
West: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Texas A&M
The league's seven-year national title streak was snapped, but everything else is stable. The SEC is still the best conference in America, and it's keeping its eight-game conference schedule -- only requiring one game against power conference teams per season, which isn't much of a change. Texas A&M and Missouri have both proven to be valuable assets already, expanding the league's reach into Texas, giving it a Heisman Trophy winner and producing back-to-back Cotton Bowl winners. The perception of the league's strength of schedule can often be out of whack -- see Alabama last year -- but whether you measure conferences by depth or strength at the top, the SEC is still king. And with the nearing launch of the SEC Network, it's only going to occupy an even more powerful place in the landscape.

2. Pac-12

North: California, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington, Washington State
South: Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, USC, UCLA, Utah
The SEC is the sport's most powerful conference, but the Pac-12 might be the most interesting. The league has spent the past several years acquiring an intriguing roster of coaches, from the Air Raid of Mike Leach and Sonny Dykes to the spread running of Rich Rodriguez and Mark Helfrich to the power football of David Shaw to the wizardy of Chris Petersen, among others. Neither Colorado nor Utah did much for the league's chances of winning a national title and the idea of a Pac-16 superconference led by Texas didn't pan out, but everyone else seems to be getting better, creating depth to go along with the blend of coaching characters and diversity of schemes.

3. Big 12

Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, TCU, Texas Tech, West Virginia
The Big 12 survived that period of uncertainty in which rumors ran rampant about its potential demise, and while its losses are hardly minor -- Nebraska, Missouri, Texas A&M and a conference championship game ... and, well, Colorado -- it maintains a fairly steady place in the national hierarchy. With a 10-team lineup that includes Kansas and Iowa State, it has little chance of matching the SEC's depth, but in any given season the teams at the top could be just as good, especially if Charlie Strong turns Texas around.

4. Big Ten

East: Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers
West: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin
The Big Ten successfully added television sets, so there's that. After adding the prestige that comes with Nebraska in a football move, the conference balanced it out with a TV move, expanding its reach further into the D.C./Baltimore and New York/New Jersey markets by adding Maryland and Rutgers for this season. Even if nobody cares about Rutgers in the New York area, there are still plenty of Big Ten Network subscriber fees to be had in New Jersey. The on-field product has had its problems over the last decade, but that doesn't mean the product isn't still incredibly popular and lucrative.

5. ACC

Atlantic: Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Louisville, N.C. State, Syracuse, Wake Forest
Coastal: Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Virginia, Virginia Tech
The ACC made a couple middling football (but great basketball) moves by adding Syracuse and Pitt, then got a football upgrade when Louisville replaced Maryland. Throw in Notre Dame's weird half association to create a few more high-profile games every year, and the ACC occupies satisfactory territory, even if it's at the bottom of the five power conferences. And, hey, depth is a secondary issue when the league can ride Florida State to a national championship."