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Message: [QUOTE="irishredhomebrew, post: 1786390, member: 1244"] I can only speak for myself, but I completely disagree. 5 home and 5 away every year predetermined. In a 12 game schedule, you have 2 games left to schedule. If you do home and aways with only P5 programs, then it balances to 6 home games a year (again, under the notion that a respected program will demand a home and away series). If you schedule one p5 home and away (on top of the annual SC rivalry), and have the other as a "buy" home game, then you arrive at a 2 year rotation of 7 home one year, 6 home the following year. The only way for 7 per year is by paying teams to come to Death Valley for the needed 2 games every year. Even by buying the home games, the 7th game will be lost every nth year that we go to South Bend for Notre Dame. Finally, Clemson has already cancelled games in the past when the 9 conference game plan passed before Notre Dame joined. We are not in hypotheticals, there is precedent to verify the point: [I]CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) -- Clemson has cancelled football future, home-and-home football series with Mississippi and Oklahoma State. School spokesman Tim Bourret said Thursday the Tigers would not play the Rebels in 2015 and 2016, or against the Cowboys in 2019 and 2020. [B] Clemson athletic director Terry Don Phillips cited the Atlantic Coast Conference's move to a nine-game schedule and the need for the Tigers to play seven home games as reasons for cutting the series.[/B] Phillips said the school was able to hang on to the renewal of its series with Georgia. The Tigers and Bulldogs are scheduled to open the season at Clemson in 2013 and in Athens, Ga., in 2014.[/I] Source: [URL="http://abcnews4.com/archive/clemson-football-cancels-series-with-ole-miss-and-oklahoma-st"]Clemson football cancels series with Ole Miss and Oklahoma St[/URL] Clemson will not schedule H&H series under the 9 game plan. Even against FCS teams, ticket sales will still exceed 75,000. It is all about the gate money. [/QUOTE]

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