More than a week after the first reports surfaced about a proposed alliance between the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12, a formal announcement is expected later Tuesday, according to reports from The Athletic and CBS Sports.

The agreement between the 3 conferences will focus on NCAA governance and college football scheduling, but the leagues also plan to get on the same page regarding future College Football Playoff expansion, Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports reported. It will also include non-conference football scheduling.

Part of the reason these conferences came together is because they agree on how academics intersect with athletics and other holistic experiences of earning a college degree. Realignment among the conferences is not part of their discussions.

“Some of things we’ve been doing to ourselves, that just needs to stop,” said one high-profile official from a school within the would-be alliance to CBS Sports. “Some of this shit, we’re talking about expanding to 12 [teams]. For two teams that [go all the way], that’s 17 games. We’re going to talk about ‘these kids aren’t professionals’ and we don’t pay them? I firmly believe in the academic value of what we’re doing, but at a certain point, it looks like professionals. … I firmly believe in the academic piece that we’re providing.”