ACC ADs approve 9/10 schedule model

[HRE Otto IV]

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maybe if they go to 9 conference games they can also fix us having bc and pitt at home or away in the same year.

if they add a team and go 1 perm then it would split it somewhat.

I had mentioned earlier some schools have more than 1 but they can play those also OOC.

For example

UNC-Duke is a perm
Year 1- NC State is an ACC game and UVA OOC
Year 2- the opposite.

That allows UNC to have 3 yearly games and play everyone else once home and once away over 4 years.

 

[Hoo's That]

A true conference would have 9 teams, so everyone played everyone every year (and you'd have a full double round robin in basketball). There would be no arguments about who had the tougher non-conference schedule and no need for a conference championship game. Take each conference champion and put them in a playoff.

I know none of this will ever happen again.

You had me agreeing with you up to there. There i$ a ma$$ive $torehou$e of rea$on$ why conference$ $tage champion$hip game$.

 

[orangefog]

You had me agreeing with you up to there. There i$ a ma$$ive $torehou$e of rea$on$ why conference$ $tage champion$hip game$.

Oh yeah? Name one!

 

[Hoo's That]

Oh yeah? Name one!

Well, uh ...

 

[orangefog]

Well, uh ...

See? I didn't think you could!

 

[sufandu]

You had me agreeing with you up to there. There i$ a ma$$ive $torehou$e of rea$on$ why conference$ $tage champion$hip game$.

I don't care about those reasons. None of this will happen the way I want it to, so I don't have to take them into consideration.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[OrangeXtreme]

As expected, the ACC is moving to nine conference games. According to a source, this will be fully implemented in 2027 with 16 league teams playing a 9+1 model, and one playing an 8+2.

 

[cusefan88]

I wonder who gets the 8+2? Gotta be an NC School right?

If that is the case will Cuse get BC or Pitt annually.

 

[upperdeck]

so does this help teams find FCS easier as a few less of those games get played or do teams to 9-1-2 fcs?

 

[HRE Otto IV]

I wonder who gets the 8+2? Gotta be an NC School right?

If that is the case will Cuse get BC or Pitt annually.

I would think it is Clemson given SC and ND games.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

As expected, the ACC is moving to nine conference games. According to a source, this will be fully implemented in 2027 with 16 league teams playing a 9+1 model, and one playing an 8+2.

Or in 2027 there is an 18th team.

 

[cusefan88]

Or in 2027 there is an 18th team.

Is USF makes the playoff that wouldn't be the worst addition.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

2026: ND
2027: at PSU
2028: PSU
2029: ND ?

 

[sutomcat]

2026: ND
2027: at PSU
2028: PSU
2029: ND ?

The home and home against a B1G team is probably being played in 2029 and 2030.

My guess is we lose the ND games after 2026.

If it is against Rutgers, we would play here in 2029 and at RU in 2030.

Hopefully at MetLife in 2030 as SHI reportedly has fleas. RU has space on their schedules for this to happen.

 

[WoadBlue]

This is all so stupid, every conference sticking their heads in the intraconference sand. There should be more interconference games, not fewer, and some of them should be mid-season.

Yes there be. But the BT and SEC want to keep all their value and then grow it at the expense of the ACC and Big 12. That means not only will bit play 9 league games but they will expand the number of By vs. SEC OOC games mist of them early in then year. They will then argue that their SOs is so far above that of ACC and Big 12, that the playoffs basically should be the top teams from those two leagues with maybe another 4 teams in total added on. BT and SEC intend to act so that they control 90% or ore of the total value of D1 CFB.

Either the ACC acts aggressively to mark itself as the clear #3 league in football value and potential, or the ACC will lose major value programs and become permanently below the Big 12.

 

[WoadBlue]

As HRE Otto IV indicated above: "ACC cannot play 9 without expanding."

So either they expand or go with 8+2.
ND games will take care of one of the +2 for several schools... especially Clempsun.

I suspect that they'll go with 8+2.

To become the clear and permanent #3 conference, the ACC must cull dead weight and expand beyond 17 members for football. If the ACC does not do that, the SEC and BT both are likely to add from the ACC and leave it well beneath the value of the Big 12. That will cause a massive stampede by the remaining ACC members to get into the Big 12.

This is an existential crisis for the ACC.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[Chip]

So one of UNH, Toledo or UConn gets a pink slip for next year?

Or did I miss in there that FCS goes away forever (hopefully).

 

[djorange1989]

So one of UNH, Toledo or UConn gets a pink slip for next year?

Or did I miss in there that FCS goes away forever (hopefully).

Sounds like 2027 is when it will start so those teams are good for next year

 

[FloridaCuse]

So one of UNH, Toledo or UConn gets a pink slip for next year?

Or did I miss in there that FCS goes away forever (hopefully).

Possibly not start this until '27.

 

[Archbold44]

So one of UNH, Toledo or UConn gets a pink slip for next year?

Or did I miss in there that FCS goes away forever (hopefully).

2027

 

[Chip]

Ok, I read something earlier that said 2026, but that was probably just speculation. But OX says above 2027, that was the part I missed.

Hope we get the 5 home conference games in 2027. Or if we're the 8+2, we need that 2nd one to be at home.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

Hopefully ADJW uses this to split BC-Pitt home and away.

Also ideally everyone would go to 2+7 (well expect for one team who gets stuck with 2+6). Then we can split every year:

Miami or FSU
GA Tech or Clemson
UNC or NC State
Duke or Wake
UVA or VA Tech
Louisville or SMU
Cal or Stanford

Which would actually be a real rotation.

 

[SaltineWarrior]

Hopefully ADJW uses this to split BC-Pitt home and away.

Also ideally everyone would go to 2+7 (well expect for one team who gets stuck with 2+6). Then we can split every year:

Miami or FSU
GA Tech or Clemson
UNC or NC State
Duke or Wake
UVA or VA Tech
Louisville or SMU
Cal or Stanford

Which would actually be a real rotation.

It would be logical, which would mean it won't happen. To be fair, I think it would be hard to do anything logical for all teams given the league has 17. Now add in ND to offset some some of these issues, then maybe...