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Message: [QUOTE="adbern7, post: 927401, member: 3954"] The dealbreaker on a 9-game conference sked is the strong ACC football schools wanting 7 home games/year. They need that for ticket gate sales and alumni support. With an 8-game conference season, they get 4 ACC home games, and of the 4 OOC games any given season, two are at home vs. non BCS schools (the weak schools need to go on the road, they can't demand home-and-homes), one is at home vs. an OOC BCS school, and one is on the road/neutral vs. an OOC BCS school for a total of 12 games. If you go to 9 ACC games, then every other year FSU/Clemson will have to choose between dropping an easy win+ticket sales of a weak opponent or dropping a solid BCS OOC opponent and hurting SOS/visibility. Throw in a year when you have a road game @ND, at you could be looking at only 5 ACC home games + 1 weak home game. Calculations like above, not "generating the best matchups" is what's going to drive any changes in divisions or scheduling. [/QUOTE]