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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4736337, member: 27"]
Good work Chris.  I think it is more likely that the new members permanent rivals will have direct flights to San Francisco and Dallas.

Boston College, Miami, Georgia Tech, Duke, NC State, UNC and Pittsburgh all have direct flights from nearby airports to SF.

They would seem to me to be the best candidates from a travel cost and efficiency perspective.

Syracuse, Louisville and Virginia Tech might be the worst choices.

Hoping we finally get Miami if a fourth rival is added.  Would take Virginia as a fallback.

Scheduling for football is a bear with an odd number of teams.  As mentioned before, it means one team is without a conference game all season.  Teams have to schedule OOC games all through the year, or take byes at senseless times.  It is a bad setup you want to avoid.

That is why I wondered if the ACC might add one more team to get to 18 for football (and 19 for basketball).

Then you could retain the 2 rival set up (the three newbies get each other).  And go 2-5-5-5 (i.e. a different group of 5 conference opponents to fill out the conference schedule each year)

If you want to retain an 8 game conference season, this looks to me like it might be the best option.  Teams would be guaranteed to play all the other teams in the conference at least once every 3 years.
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