Teel: Which ACC football rivalries should be preserved in 7-year schedule rotation?
As the ACC prepares to expand in 2024, football scheduling will be central when league officials convene their fall meetings next week
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Teel: Which ACC football rivalries should be preserved in 7-year schedule rotation?
As the ACC prepares to expand in 2024, football scheduling will be central when league officials convene their fall meetings next weekrichmond.com
Good. Not all schools will have a protected rival and they shouldn't. These should be the only ones:
FSU/Miami
UVa/VT
Stan/Cal
Stan/SMU (by default)
Cal/SMU (by default)
UNC/NC St
UNC/UVa (oldest rivalry in the south)
Pitt/Syr does not need protected.
Pitt-Cuse has never done much for me. But I like the possibility that we’ll continue to play BC/VT/CUSE ever year just for some Big East nostalgia.
The only rivalries that need to be protected are:
Pitt vs Syracuse
Pitt vs Boston College
Pitt vs Virginia
Pitt vs Georgia Tech
Pitt vs Duke
Pitt vs Wake
Pitt vs Cal
Pitt vs Stanford
Pitt vs SMU
After that, throw 'em all into a hat for all I care.
Pitt vs Syracuse
Pitt vs Boston College
Pitt vs Virginia
Pitt vs Georgia Tech
Pitt vs Duke
Pitt vs Wake
Pitt vs Cal
Pitt vs Stanford
Pitt vs SMU
After that, throw 'em all into a hat for all I care.
I'd like to play those 3 every year just because I think we can usually beat them
I’ll admit Syracuse isn’t the most exciting opponent but we’ve played them for 68 straight years. Makes sense to keep them as a yearly opponent.
You can get bourbon at any state store. You can get Dinosaur Barbecue only in Syracuse or Brooklyn.
I would take Louisville, it's restaurants, breweries, bars, nightlife 1000000 times over Syracuse NY
Yea. I have said before the ACC should break into a Football Division and an Academic Division
Academic Division
Pitt
BC
Cal
Stan
UVa
GT
Wake
Duke
Syr
Football Division
Lou
Clem
VT
UNC
SMU
FSU
NC St
Miami
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I will bite, SMU vs anyone should be protected? Explain why I should care about either of those games.
We were talking bourbon vs Dinosaur. Not Syracuse Chamber of Commerce or Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce vs Louisville Chamber of Commerce.
Went there last year, and wasn’t impressed. I don’t need to ever go back to Louisville
If you read the link in the first post of the thread, basically because that is what will make the schedule work the way that they want it to work.
Academic Division for the teams that refuse to really try to win and in fact are embarrassed to be good at football
The “We’re Giving Our Football Donations to Volleyball” Division 😄Academic Division for the teams that refuse to really try to win and in fact are embarrassed to be good at football
If that's what they need to do to make the schedule work, so what?
I mean would you be more interested if instead of SMU playing Stanford and Boston College playing Georgia Tech that SMU played Georgia Tech and Boston College played Stanford?
Nope I watch Pitt and the other good match up. I however enjoy rivalry week. Glad both the Civil War and Apple Cup games are continuing
Right because part of the "deal" was that the ACC teams only want a Cali trip 3 times in a 7 year period. So this means SMU has to play Cal and Stanford every year
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