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[QUOTE="TheCusian, post: 1795661, member: 2585"]
Teel is factually correct. Total inventory would go up. They'd control both home and away (conference opponents) instead of just home vs OOC.

Consider this (and don't get to caught up in actual opponents here, think more level of opponent.) For every FSU vs Okie State there are a bunch of Wake vs Indiana and NC State vs Troy type games the conference may or may not have access to (and that ESPN and it's viewers primarily could care less about). The ratings for FSU vs USF are probably better but not as much as a conference game would deliver.

NC State gets an extra conference game vs PITT. [I]Hmm - I'd watch that before I even think about a match up with Troy.[/I]
Wake gets an extra conference game vs Miami. [I]Sign me up.[/I]
FSU gets an extra conference game vs UVa. [I]Yeah, way more interesting than USF.
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That's the value that ESPN is seeking by an ACC with 9 games. Just how much that adds to a schools coffers to offset the 1 home game they'd lose ever other year is the relevant question.
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