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[QUOTE="irishredhomebrew, post: 1785782, member: 1244"]
A nine game conference schedule would be balanced with the South Carolina game's home and away schedule so that Clemson would have 5 home and 5 away games cemented in the schedule every year. That leaves 2 games to be scheduled each year. For Clemson to maintain 7 home games each year, those games would end up being bought home games against FCS teams because we could not do a return trip with a FBS team.

It would mean, for Clemson, the end of any exciting OOC games in the regular schedule under a 12 game schedule. We have seen this before when the 9 game schedule was voted in last time. Clemson immediately cancelled teh Ole Miss games because of it.

Keep in mind that Clemson does not have a basketball program that sells out every game to fall back on to make up revenue from lost home games. For Clemson, the football team really is the bread winner for its AD.

Finally, if a 9 game conference schedule is being pushed to create more exciting matchups, the opposite will occur with respect to FL ST, Clemson, GT, and Louisville. It will kill any OOC high-stakes scheduling.
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