ACC 9 Game Schedule

[Sarge25]

Any idea on when that will come back up for a vote? I hope it passes and makes it impossible for Pitt or Penn State to schedule each other. Games that lead to naming a champion are much more important than winning some mythical rivalry so you can win bragging right.

Another point I love about this "fan hatred" is all of the tailgating that Pitt and Penn State fans did together at Heinz Field. Gimme a break with all this fake hatred.

 

[kma0043]

You want a 9 game ACC schedule so we can play Wake Forest or whoever from the Atlantic? No thanks. Give me PSU, WV or ND. Those are match ups that'll draw interest and draw butts to Heinz. Not to mention catch the eyes of potential recruits.

 

[DiehardPanther]

You want a 9 game ACC schedule so we can play Wake Forest or whoever from the Atlantic? No thanks. Give me PSU, WV or ND. Those are match ups that'll draw interest and draw butts to Heinz. Not to mention catch the eyes of potential recruits.

ND is already booked for about the next 15 years. We are not going to play them every year. Not happening. PS will not be playing us on a yearly basis. That leaves WV. You could still play them with 9 ACC games.

 

[Sarge25]

You want a 9 game ACC schedule so we can play Wake Forest or whoever from the Atlantic? No thanks. Give me PSU, WV or ND. Those are match ups that'll draw interest and draw butts to Heinz. Not to mention catch the eyes of potential recruits.

I want to play fsu, clemson and Louisville WAY more than I want to play PSU, WVU or ND. When Pitt is playing WF, MD, BC or NS St and the outcome is an ACC championship...ya, the excitement will be high and the crowd will be good.

 

[kma0043]

I think we still get ND once per 3 years. On a different note I'd like to see the ACC broken up into more of a north/south alignment. Be a little old Big East flavor with Pitt, BC, VT, Louisville, Cuse in the same division.

 

[Sarge25]

This is my ideal ACC.

North:
Boston College
Pitt
Syracuse
Virginia

West:
Louisville
Notre Dame
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest

Central:
Clemson
Duke
North Carolina
NC State

South:
Florida State
Georgia Tech
Miami
South Florida

Play an 11 game schedule where you play your own division (3), then you play 2 other divisions (8). You then take the 4 division winners and play a 2 game playoff at neutral sites. The winner of the playoff goes on to rep the ACC in the NC Playoffs.

This allows you more exposure to all the ACC teams except for only 1 year. Keeps your max games at 13. Makes EVERY game important. Makes the conference a TON of TV and Neutral Site money when you make cities bid for the playoff games.

You can say FU to PSU and FU to WVU. I would also add in a scrimage against a local lower level school if they both agreed.

 

[ThePanthers]

They voted not to do it last year and it is off the table.

 

[DC_Area_Panther]

They voted not to do it last year and it is off the table.

Wonderful! I hate conference schedule expansion. As a fan I want to see more intercontrence and intersectional games. I would rather the NCAA mandated those and not allow this trend to an overemphasis on in-conference play continue. Make everyone play at least two OOC power 5 conference opponents every year!

 

[Sarge25]

They voted not to do it last year and it is off the table.

It's not off the table....it's going to be revisited when they feel they can get more money from ESPN (researched last night). ACC and SEC are the only dummies not doing it. The ACC will be the last to make the change and continue to cost each school TV money they desperately need.

 

[Swervin27]

ND is already booked for about the next 15 years. We are not going to play them every year. Not happening. PS will not be playing us on a yearly basis. That leaves WV. You could still play them with 9 ACC games.

I would welcome a 9 game ACC schedule with an ongoing home and home with the eers. leaves us 2 games with non P5 schools, including one fcs game.. In honesty, it would probably be easier schedule than what we face now. Basically you are taking away one of these P5 OOC games and replacing it with a team from the Atlantic. Well scratch that, cause we'd catch Clemson, fsu and l'ville more often than not.

You'd have to get rid of that ND rotation though, that would be too difficult to schedule around.

 

[Swervin27]

I think we still get ND once per 3 years. On a different note I'd like to see the ACC broken up into more of a north/south alignment. Be a little old Big East flavor with Pitt, BC, VT, Louisville, Cuse in the same division.

9 game conference schedule would probably eliminate that ND rotation, you'd think. Couldn't imagine trying to schedule that 10th P5 OOC home and home with ND as well, would be very difficult..

 

[Pitt69]

This is my ideal ACC.

North:
Boston College
Pitt
Syracuse
Virginia

West:
Louisville
Notre Dame
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest

Central:
Clemson
Duke
North Carolina
NC State

South:
Florida State
Georgia Tech
Miami
South Florida

Play an 11 game schedule where you play your own division (3), then you play 2 other divisions (8). You then take the 4 division winners and play a 2 game playoff at neutral sites. The winner of the playoff goes on to rep the ACC in the NC Playoffs.

This allows you more exposure to all the ACC teams except for only 1 year. Keeps your max games at 13. Makes EVERY game important. Makes the conference a TON of TV and Neutral Site money when you make cities bid for the playoff games.

You can say FU to PSU and FU to WVU. I would also add in a scrimage against a local lower level school if they both agreed.

From the Cheap Seats; flip flop ND and VA and I like it.

 

[Slick Manager of Champs]

This is my ideal ACC.

North:
Boston College
Pitt
Syracuse
Virginia

West:
Louisville
Notre Dame
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest

Central:
Clemson
Duke
North Carolina
NC State

South:
Florida State
Georgia Tech
Miami
South Florida

Play an 11 game schedule where you play your own division (3), then you play 2 other divisions (8). You then take the 4 division winners and play a 2 game playoff at neutral sites. The winner of the playoff goes on to rep the ACC in the NC Playoffs.

This allows you more exposure to all the ACC teams except for only 1 year. Keeps your max games at 13. Makes EVERY game important. Makes the conference a TON of TV and Neutral Site money when you make cities bid for the playoff games.

You can say FU to PSU and FU to WVU. I would also add in a scrimage against a local lower level school if they both agreed.

Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled to be playing the nits, but it just reminds me how screwed up these conferences are. It would be so much better if we were playing in November with the eastern conference championship on the line. Pitt-PSU would be bigger than Michigan-O$U.

I like that Clemson-SC & UGA-Georgia Tech still play on the final weekend. But it would be better if it had a role in determining a conference championship.

It stinks that Nebraska-Oklahoma, Texas-Texas A&M, and Pitt-PSU/WVU are all in separate conferences. Maybe there will be a cosmic shift to make a course correction in the future, but doubt I see it in the next 20 years.

 

[ThePanthers]

It's not off the table....it's going to be revisited when they feel they can get more money from ESPN (researched last night). ACC and SEC are the only dummies not doing it. The ACC will be the last to make the change and continue to cost each school TV money they desperately need.

It's off the table. Your articles are dated. They voted last spring and are moving on. Trust me. Search David Teel artcles, etc.

 

[GreatBear71]

It is off the table because of FSU and Clemson. If we had a 9 game ACC schedule, the years FSU and Clemson play ND would make 11 power 5 games as they play Florida and South Carolina every year That is not fair if the Pa 12, Big 12, and Big 10 only play 1 power ooc game for a total of 10 power games

 

[ThePanthers]

It is off the table because of FSU and Clemson. If we had a 9 game ACC schedule, the years FSU and Clemson play ND would make 11 power 5 games as they play Florida and South Carolina every year That is not fair if the Pa 12, Big 12, and Big 10 only play 1 power ooc game for a total of 10 power games

Lousiville and GT as well. It as voted down I believe in the spring. They were offered additional money to go to 9 for the ACC Network, but it wasn't enough to move the needle. It's well documented.

 

[Sarge25]

Lousiville and GT as well. It as voted down I believe in the spring. They were offered additional money to go to 9 for the ACC Network, but it wasn't enough to move the needle. It's well documented.

Link please that show that the money was above $500k per team. That's all I was able to find.

 

[ThePanthers]

Link please that show that the money was above $500k per team. That's all I was able to find.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...e-keep-eight-game-football-schedule/91623140/

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...-elects-keep-current-football-schedule-format

http://www.dailypress.com/sports/teel-blog/dp-teel-time-acc-adopts-status-quo-post.html

 

[topdecktiger]

This is my ideal ACC.

North:
Boston College
Pitt
Syracuse
Virginia

West:
Louisville
Notre Dame
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest

Central:
Clemson
Duke
North Carolina
NC State

South:
Florida State
Georgia Tech
Miami
South Florida

Play an 11 game schedule where you play your own division (3), then you play 2 other divisions (8). You then take the 4 division winners and play a 2 game playoff at neutral sites. The winner of the playoff goes on to rep the ACC in the NC Playoffs.

This allows you more exposure to all the ACC teams except for only 1 year. Keeps your max games at 13. Makes EVERY game important. Makes the conference a TON of TV and Neutral Site money when you make cities bid for the playoff games.

You can say FU to PSU and FU to WVU. I would also add in a scrimage against a local lower level school if they both agreed.

You can kiss the playoffs goodbye if you don't have the ACC playing any OOC games.

 

[Sarge25]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...e-keep-eight-game-football-schedule/91623140/

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...-elects-keep-current-football-schedule-format

http://www.dailypress.com/sports/teel-blog/dp-teel-time-acc-adopts-status-quo-post.html

All articles I already read. None of them stating espn or acctv offered more money before the vote as an attempt to change their mind, the dollar amount was still at $500k per school, which is what it always was. I guess every school that voted to keep 8+2 makes 500k playing a home game against a shit school? I doubt Pitt does. Trust me, it's not off the table, this is a 2 year ploy to get more money thrown at them and then a miracle will happen and it will be passed.

 

[topdecktiger]

All articles I already read. None of them stating espn or acctv offered more money before the vote as an attempt to change their mind, the dollar amount was still at $500k per school, which is what it always was. I guess every school that voted to keep 8+2 makes 500k playing a home game against a shit school? I doubt Pitt does. Trust me, it's not off the table, this is a 2 year ploy to get more money thrown at them and then a miracle will happen and it will be passed.

ESPN didn't offer more to begin with. The deal was, ESPN was going to require 9 games as part of the deal for the network. Since the ACC didn't want to do that, the agreement was to dock $500k from the payout. So there's no extra money to be had. The 9th game wasn't, or won't be, a haggling point.

 

[ThePanthers]

ESPN didn't offer more to begin with. The deal was, ESPN was going to require 9 games as part of the deal for the network. Since the ACC didn't want to do that, the agreement was to dock $500k from the payout. So there's no extra money to be had. The 9th game wasn't, or won't be, a haggling point.

This.