BC has won a National Championship in Major College Football, albeit of course it was a long time ago ( and we need not get into who has won National Championships in Football, and who hasn't as its essentially an irrelevant sidebar to the thread topic anyway ).
Here's the essential "narrative", as I see it, anyway : College Football decisions are essentially made on one thing and one thing alone : Money. If schools can be shown that making a decision re. sports, especially football, will make them money, they will vote to enrich themselves, period. It doesn't matter what another school wants or doesn't want as a member school. Show them the money possibilities, and they'll vote yes every time for themselves. The reverse is also true. Show a school that another league school is a money drain and they will not only not invite them, they will kick to the curb any school that is already a league member.. Remember the BE ? They had an academic bottom feeder as West Virginia in its league. But they made money. Money for the BE. Temple, on the other hand was a school that was not making money. So these " academic " school Presidents that tell us ad nauseum how important it is to be " Academic " decided to kick Temple to the curb... bounced them clear out of the BE. The fact that Temple is a fine school academically is irrelevant. What mattered was the money to these school presidents. Period. So... if its determined that Uconn will make money for the ACC, or any other P5 league for that matter, it doesn't matter what the preferred wishes are of any other school. These schools will beat a path to your door if they believe that an alignment with you will make them money. Now, I do not pretend to know what goes on behind closed doors in these meetings when it comes to who to invite and not to invite, but it seems to me that these schools are currently not yet convinced that adding Uconn football to their league will make these other schools money with that invite. Why they have currently concluded this is unclear to me, and open to any number of reasons. But fundamentally, these schools are about making money for their schools sports teams. Show them the money.. or future money opportunities.. convince them of that, and the dollars will trump revenge, spite, hesitation, loyalty, fidelity, collegiality, " defer to the wishes of another school ", and yada yada, etc every time. Thats the essential " narrative " on how league expansions are determined anyway in my view. Its the money. Its always about the money .. and only the money...when the school presidents get together to make future decisions about their leagues they are in, moving forward.