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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 899481, member: 1145"]
Many of the games would be easy. The stating place is with games that are truly old. You need to protect all of those, if possible. One that can't be is UNC-Wake, first played in 1888 and now at 105 games. It lost annual status when we expanded to 12 teams.

Next is to preserve as annual any games that are, or easily can be, nationally significant.

Third is to emphasize border state games and regional/sub-regional games.

Here are games I think are [B]MUSTS 
[/B]
BC - Syracuse, Pitt
Syracuse - BC, Pitt
Pitt - Syracuse, BC

Those are all chosen to maximize interest in ACC football north of the Mason-Dixon line by having the 3 schools all play one another annually in a mini-round robin.

Louisville - 
UVA - UNC, VT
VT - UVA, Miami
UNC - UVA, Dook, MooU
Dook - UNC, Wake
MooU - UNC, Wake
Wake - UNC, Dook
Clemson - GT, FSU
GT - Clemson
FSU - Miami, Clemson
Miami - FSU, VT

Games that I think are [I]Near Musts
[/I]
Dook - GT
MooU - Clemson
Clemson - MooU
GT - Dook, FSU
FSU - GT

The only one of those games that is not now annual is FSU-GT. Because GT is the closest school to FSU, I think that game should be annual if we can eliminate divisions.

Everything else is a matter of preferences and negotiations. True balance is impossible.
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