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[QUOTE="Lou_C, post: 636364, member: 3201"]
Ah, but that's the point.  We need pod scheduling badly for that very reason.  There is no justification for Syracuse to go a decade without playing VT or Miami, but they will play NCSU every year and Miami will play Duke every year.
 
The ACC's scheduling problem is that schools have 7 mandated games every year, and that's WAY too many.  NO school in this conference has 7 games worth protecting.
 
Pods solve that, whether by being independent divisions and the conference having semifinals, or by rotating pods to form new division every year.
 
The main thing is that in pods of five let's say (in this scenario) Syracuse might have Louisville, WVU, BC and Pitt as pod-mates.  They play them every year.  Then you have five games (four in a 16-team scenario) against another pod every year.
 
So if you do the home and home scheduling with conferences do now, you'd face VT and Miami etc twice every six years, once at home.  That's not great, but much better than now, and the same as the ACC and SEC were doing at 12.
 
If you drop the home and home in consecutive years, you would still only host them once every six years, but SU and VT would play every third year.  That is MUCH MUCH better than twice every 12 years or whatever it's going to be now.  And while for you guys it's VT and Miami, for FSU it's GT, for Wake it's UNC, etc.  We've all got a couple schools that we never play.
 
That makes ACC football way more appealing, with more frequent premier matchups, better geographical ties and the opportunity to build or rekindle rivalries..
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