ACC Scheduling...Change is Drawing Closer

[Memnon]

ACC delays vote on future football scheduling model - Daily Press

 

[Jeeperaf]

ACC delays vote on future football scheduling model - Daily Press

Nothing like kicking the can down the road. As big bad Henry K has said, "Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately."

Since the 2019 season is the implementation deadline, the closer they get with no decision just breaks more glass...

 

[nwFL Griz]

I'd prefer the 9 over the 8+2, simply because it does more to offset the ridiculousness that is the cross-divisional scheduling.


Sick of teams like VT having an advantage just due to the fact that their cross-divisional opponent is a cupcake.

How does going to 9 games change that?

It adds another cross division game, increasing the chance that someone beside us will have to play FSU and Clemson (insert whatever really good Atlantic team is in any given year) in the same year.

 

[SevenNSeven]

I'd prefer the 9 over the 8+2, simply because it does more to offset the ridiculousness that is the cross-divisional scheduling.


Sick of teams like VT having an advantage just due to the fact that their cross-divisional opponent is a cupcake.

How does going to 9 games change that?

It adds another cross division game, increasing the chance that someone beside us will have to play FSU and Clemson (insert whatever really good Atlantic team is in any given year) in the same year.

This.


Really, the only 'fair' way to do it is to weight the inter-divisional games and only use the cross divisional games as a tiebreaker. However, since the odds of them doing that are low, 9 divisional games increases the odds that a team like UNC or VT will catch a Clemson, Louisville, or FSU more often.


The 9 game conference schedule makes the path to the ACC title game slightly more 'fair', IMO.

 

[DC Dog Nuts]

My opinion on scheduling:

Anyone, anytime, anywhere

That's not how Bama or literally every other elite program does it. Playing more than 1 marquee OOC game is dumb. Even dumber if they move to a 9 game ACC sched.

The Bama model is: 1 good team + 3 easy wins for OOC.

"Anyone, anywhere, anytime" is a relic and is just dumb in modern cfb

You have to adjust fire for the type of conference you are in. No way any of the schools in the SEC West should ever schedule more than one OOC game that is considered tough. People dump on FL but forget they have FSU OOC every year and have LSU as their cross over game.