ACC: 9 conference games: One vote away

[Alsacs]

Option 3 is only possible if the 3 permanent rivalry games are not always within the same division. That sounds OK to me. The league would also have to get creative about how it goes about assigning teams to divisions every year. A 14 year rotation or preseason seeding, perhaps?

Option 3 would require that atleast one of everyone's 3 protected annual rivals would be their cross-over opponent from the other division.
It could get done, but it would take a lot of work once the ACC determined who every team's 3 annual opponents would be.

 

[Toga]

Kaiser for the win.

i like the divisions, for the reason you gave with dook, bc, wake etc getting to the champ game. im also a big fan of the 3-5-5. and i dont see any reason why they cant do both.

looks to me like theres 3 options:

1. the status quo
2. no divisions 3-5-5 and basically a voted on champ game
3. divisions and 3-5-5

it doesnt have to be all nice and neat with everyone in a division having played everyone. if option 2 is picked then its an unbalanced schedule anyway, so why not do it with divisions??

obviously im looking at this as a tier 2 team who would benefit, which i think is the way the ADs and Presidents would lean. i also think they would lean towards the side that it might not be good for clemson to play fla st again. which is probably the way the coaches would lean.

although im pretty sure espn would be on the other side of this. hell, i didnt watch fla st-dook, but i wouldve gone out of my way to watch fla st-clemson.

divisions protect the collective.

now we need to make the schedule more attractive.

tiebreakers done the NFL way...

Head-to-head
Best won-lost-tied percentage in games played within the division.
Best won-lost-tied percentage in common games.
Strength of victory.
Strength of schedule.
Best combined ranking among conference teams in points scored and points allowed.
Best combined ranking among all teams in points scored and points allowed.
Best net points in common games.
Best net points in all games.
Best net touchdowns in all games.
Coin toss

 

[UNC Blue]

The most talked solution to get rid of divisions, play 3 permanent rivals each season, play 5 of the other 10 one year and the other 5 the next year works nicely. You don't have schools playing a different number of home and away games, every player who stays with an ACC program for 4 years is guaranteed to play at least once at every ACC venue and to play each ACC school at least once at their stadium.

A schedule like that would really be conducive for forming league rivalries and make the ACC feel more like a league than a loose confederation of schools. I hope the ACC goes in this direction.

The ACC has been fighting for that.