The emerging Alliance between the B1G, ACC, and Pac-12 has stirred plenty of debate in the college football world. Although we don’t know the specifics yet, the landscape is bound to be altered in a significant way at the Power 5 level.

However, one Group of Five conference commissioner is frustrated about the exclusivity from the power brokers. AAC commissioner Mike Aresco believes his conference should be involved in the discussions regarding the Alliance.

Via The Athletic’s Chris Vannini:

“The Alliance, there’s not much I want to say about it because I don’t know what it is at this point,” Aresco told The Athletic on Wednesday. “It’s hard to tell what it is. But I can say this: This is exactly the kind of thing where we’re not involved in that, and we should (be), in my view. This is what has been wrong with the governance for quite some time, that a conference like ours is not involved in that kind of thing.

“Whether we would have been part of it or not, I have no idea. I’m not sure what they’re doing, necessarily, I don’t know. No one does, right? They don’t even know what’s involved in it yet. You don’t know what positions they’re going to take. You don’t know what they’ll do with scheduling. … There are question marks about it, and I’m not prepared to analyze it, because I don’t know what it involves.”

Everything is still in flux with the Alliance. It’s not shocking though that the conference that coined the term “Power 6” wants a seat at the table.

AAC programs UCF (2018) and Cincinnati (2020) have been the highest ranked G5 teams in the College Football Playoff era, both ending their seasons at No. 8.

Aresco’s comments come shortly after Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby weighed in on the Alliance, with Texas and Oklahoma set to eventually depart for the SEC.