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Message: [QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 4145999, member: 3609"] We'd already be using the 3-5-5 schedule for quite a while but Swofford got taken for a ride when it came time to vote. The change that allowed the Big XII to keep their championship game came to vote first. Swofford and the ACC voted in favor, figuring that the rest would go along with 3-5-5. Only they didn't vote in favor it which came as a surprise to Swofford. It's possible he was lied to by other schools/conference HQs. If the 3-5-5 vote had come up first, he could have had us vote against the Big XII in retaliation or at least threated to do so to get the Big XII teams to go along. All of this happened because the B1G and the SEC were hoping that the ACC would implode and they'd get to pick over the pieces. Once the ACC Network happened, that idea went bust, making the SEC and the B1G more amenable to allowing 3-5-5. [/QUOTE]