Solution for ACC Scheduling

May 12, 2014, 11:00 PM

I think there is a pretty easy fix to the ACC’s scheduling dilemma. The ACC can’t go to 9 conference games because of out of conference rivalries with GT, FSU, Wake, and Clemson; as well as teams keeping FCS teams on their schedule that allows them to have extra home games for local businesses. One rotating game isn’t enough, and that has been the biggest complaint from fans that it is too long of a gap for their team to play all the teams from the other division. The solution is to drop cross division permanent rivals and go to playing all six teams in a schools division with rotating two teams from the other division. This would break up some long standing annual rivalries like Florida State-Miami, Clemson- Georgia Tech, UNC-NC State, and Pitt-Syracuse. The other ones, most fans would probably be OK sacrificing in order to play more teams from the other division more often. In order to keep the important rivalries we simply realign divisions while still discontinuing the cross division rivalry system.

This gives us Division 1) Louisville, Virginia, UNC, NC State, Virginia Tech, Duke, Wake Forest

and Division 2) Clemson, Florida State, Miami, Georgia Tech, Boston College, Syracuse, Pittsburg.

This keeps all of the important and traditional rivalries that would have otherwise been lost from discontinuing the cross division rivalry system. UNC, Duke, NC State and Wake forest get to play each other every year. VT and Virginia get to play each other every year. Clemson and FSU and FSU and Miami can play each other every year. Newer additions and former Big East teams BC, Syracuse and Pitt can all remain playing each other every year.

The only criticism I could foresee would be that fans and programs might not see this as the best split between divisions for the best possible championship game. But it does have VT, Louisville and UNC which all have the potential to be very good against Clemson and FSU (who are in the same division now anyway so this wouldn’t change) and Miami and Georgia Tech who have been in the race lately as well.

I think this is without a doubt the ACC’s best option. It lets every team play all other six teams in its division. It keeps the traditional division champion to play in the title game format. It keeps the games that fans really want to see reoccurring on an annual basis. (for us specifically Clemson vs FSU and GT) It keeps the ACC schedule at only 8 games (without the years a team plays ND) to allow for many teams to keep their out of conference ACC-SEC rivalry games. It also maintains the amount of FCS games that are always at home to keep a team having 7 home games for their program that is important to athletic departments, season ticket holders, and the local economies of the universities.

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Why don't we just get ND to fully commit then go into a tri-divisional setup? That is if the NCAA will let us tweak the conference championship regulations.

Div 1
FSU
MIAMI
LOUISVILLE
DUKE
UVA

Div 2
VT
CLEM
NCSU
SU
WF

Div 3
ND
UNC
BC
GT
PITT

In this set-up, you would play everyone in your division, 1 permanent cross divisional opponent from each of the other divisions and rotate between the other divisional opponents.

For example, Clemson would play VT, NCSU, SU, and WF within their division each year, FSU and GT would be the permanent cross divisional rivals each year, and then they would rotate between the other teams so that they would get to play each team at least once in a 4 year span. For the conference championship, the top two divisional champions would play.

Solution for ACC Scheduling

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