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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 1047919, member: 1145"] Yes, the SEC wants it too. It's the only way to make LSU happy, among others. It will allow Missouri to play more against the schools nearest it. It will get everyone who is not an annual rival of UF or TAMU into FL or TX quicker. The first time I wrote an article for Southern Pigskin advocating this type NCAA rules change noting how it would be good for the SEC, 100% of the feedback from SEC fans was negative, along the lines of the notion being stupid and worthless. Eventually even dullard SEC coaches and fans catch on. And that leads to the matter of the 3 annual rivals for each ACC school. The last time I did this was on the Louisville Scout board. Below is what I came up with: All signs indicate that we are keeping an 8 game conference schedule. If we each have 3 annual rivals, we will play the other 10 teams in the conference 2 times every 4 years. We will see every team at least twice every 4 years. That seems to me to be close to ideal. None of us have more than 3 teams we [B]must [/B]play each year. Each of us now plays annual games against 2 or 3 schools that our fans would not mind seeing less often, and each of us have fans who would greatly prefer to play a team or two or three more often than the old NCAA rules allow. Below is my list of 3 annual rivals for each full member of ACC football. It starts with the [B]MUST PLAY [/B]games, based on history (like The South's Oldest Rivalry and GT-Dook) and the need to maximize TV interests and deal with SEC rivalries (which is the reason I have FSU playing GT annually), and then taking account of Thanksgiving weekend season ending games. All teams should play every Thanksgiving weekend so no one ever plays in the Championship after a bye week. We have 4 teams that will end the season versus SEC in-state rivals (FSU, GT, Clemson, and Louisville). UVA and VT must end the season. So must the 4 NC schools, though it might be interesting to have that rotate, so that in some years UNC closes with Dook while MooU closes with Wake, and in other years UNC closes with MooU while Dook closes with Wake. That leaves 4 teams who need an annual season ending game: Miami, Pitt, Syracuse, and BC. BC and Cuse, as border state schools, probably should close the season, which would leave Miami closing with Pitt. With all that in mind, here is my list: BC - Syracuse, Pitt, Wake Syracuse - BC, Pitt, Louisville Pitt - BC, Syracuse, Miami Louisville - VT, Syracuse, UVA UVA - UNC, VT, Louisville VT - UVA, Louisville, Miami UNC - UVA, Dook, MooU Dook - UNC, Wake, GT MooU - UNC, Wake, Clemson Wake - Dook, MooU, BC Clemson - GT, FSU, MooU GT - Clemson, FSU, Dook FSU - Miami, Clemson, GT Miami - FSU, Pitt, VT The one change to the above I now think makes it ideal is to have Miami play Syracuse annually instead of Pitt, which means Louisville would play Pitt annually rather than Cuse. The reason is that when Miami is really good, the Canes do extremely well in NYC TV ratings. The ACC needs to maximize that by having Miami and Cuse play annually. For season enders - that would mean Miami closes with Cuse and Pitt closes with BC. [/QUOTE]

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