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My 5 minute idea to fix the ACC

TerragonSix

TerragonSix

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So, I put a little thought into how to fix the ACC.

Here's what I came up with while I'm being loaded in a dock.

4 Divisions - North, South, East, West

End of season - East v West, North v South, Winners go to the ACC championship. ACC Champion has auto CFP bid.

Min 6 conference games, every one in each division plays each other. Tiebreaker is H2H matchup.

North

Syracuse
Duke
Pitt
BC

South

Miami
FSU
Clemson
GT

East

NC
NC State
Virginia
VT

West

SMU
Stanford
Cal
Louisville


What do ya'll think?
 
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The 4 most watched teams (that should be 4 of your top 6 teams year over year) in the conference in the same division isn't going to happen.

Gotta come up with the annual matchups that don't change every year - Miami's need to be FSU, VT, and Louisville, and/or Pitt. Then, build it from there.
 
Money.

It's literally just money. There's no new strategy or re organization or anything special needed.

Schools just need to step up and start spending it.

The Big 12 was left for dead 3 years ago, and now they are firmly the 3rd best conference.

They started spending big.

It's literally a one year project. UNC got the memo. I expect Stanford, Duke, V-Tech, and now Cal with Lupoi to step up. But the Boston College's and Georgia Tech's of the world gotta start throwing their weight around too.

And the other part is marketing. The commissioner was awful, but the ACC social media team was A-1 these last few weeks. When an ACC schools beats these SEC or Big 10 teams, they gotta let the whole world know about it.
 
TerragonSix said:
So, I put a little thought into how to fix the ACC.

Here's what I came up with while I'm being loaded in a dock.

4 Divisions - North, South, East, West

End of season - East v West, North v South, Winners go to the ACC championship. ACC Champion has auto CFP bid.

Min 6 conference games, every one in each division plays each other. Tiebreaker is H2H matchup.

North

Syracuse
Duke
Pitt
BC

South

Miami
FSU
Clemson
GT

East

NC
NC State
Virginia
VT

West

SMU
Stanford
Cal
Louisville


What do ya'll think?
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I think Duke being in the north when it’s south of UVA and Tech was genius on your part. And you forgot WF you putz
 
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About like fixing the Berlin Wall.

Once the SEC and B1G began to assert their dominance with the backing of their media partners, the Pac-12 and ACC were on borrowed time
 
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TerragonSix said:
So, I put a little thought into how to fix the ACC.

Here's what I came up with while I'm being loaded in a dock.

4 Divisions - North, South, East, West

End of season - East v West, North v South, Winners go to the ACC championship. ACC Champion has auto CFP bid.

Min 6 conference games, every one in each division plays each other. Tiebreaker is H2H matchup.

North

Syracuse
Duke
Pitt
BC

South

Miami
FSU
Clemson
GT

East

NC
NC State
Virginia
VT

West

SMU
Stanford
Cal
Louisville


What do ya'll think?
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lol there are 17 teams you forgot about Wake.

If we had 16 teams we could easily have 2 8 team divisions
 
Here is my solution.

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If there’s going to be massive conferences, divisions need to be brought back for more even schedules + tiebreakers (H2H!!!).

If conf championship games go away and you’re having a mini tournament to get into the playoff (requires AQs), then a pod system could work.

The Big10 just had #1 vs #2 in their title game and it literally meant nothing (except for Indianas feelings)
 
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Canes Legacy said:
If there’s going to be massive conferences, divisions need to be brought back for more even schedules + tiebreakers (H2H!!!).

If conf championship games go away and you’re having a mini tournament to get into the playoff (requires AQs), then a pod system could work.

The Big10 just had #1 vs #2 in their title game and it literally meant nothing (except for Indianas feelings)
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Agreed, UM, OM and TAMU actually made out by NOT playing in a conference championship game.
 
Canes Legacy said:
If there’s going to be massive conferences, divisions need to be brought back for more even schedules + tiebreakers (H2H!!!).

If conf championship games go away and you’re having a mini tournament to get into the playoff (requires AQs), then a pod system could work.

The Big10 just had #1 vs #2 in their title game and it literally meant nothing (except for Indianas feelings)
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If ESPN owned the rights deal to the B1G10 then they would’ve been promoting that game a lot more #1 vs #2 only undefeated teams, playing for the conference championship would’ve been huge. Imagine if it was Bama vs Texas both undefeated they would’ve been airing specials about it like crazy.

ESPN has been corrupting college football for so long it’s pathetic

The ACC is a joke because we the teams that played in the conference championship aren’t even the best teams in our conference (because we did away with divisions and have stupid tie breakers), but it should still mean something to win your conference
 
In less than5 years, we will end up with a Premiere League model with the top 48 / 60 universities. ... no conference tie-ups for profit generating sports.
Individual universities with own private equity partnerships will eliminate GOR and such bloated conference based broadcast contracts with ESPN etc..
University Partnerships will control all streaming contracts with Prime etc to generate max ROI for equity partners
 
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