Glad to see the classic SMU/Stanford rivalry is being protected, I really would’ve missed that game 
Future Big 12 FB Opponents/Schedule Announced
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ACC just released how they were doing it:
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"The approved format will continue to have each member institution play eight conference games per season, with all 17 teams playing each other at least twice over the next seven seasons – once at home and once on the road. The current 14 conference teams will play a total of three times each in California over the seven years and none will travel west to California in back-to-back seasons.
The new scheduling model protects 16 annual matchups. Of the 16 matchups, 11 are retained from the current 3-5-5 schedule model, two are restored rivalries from the divisional format in Miami-Virginia Tech and NC State-Wake Forest and the three new schools fill the remaining three. The annual protected matchups are Boston College-Syracuse, Boston College-Pitt, Syracuse-Pitt, North Carolina-Virginia, North Carolina-Duke, North Carolina-NC State, NC State-Wake Forest, NC State-Duke, Duke-Wake Forest, Virginia Tech-Virginia, Florida State-Clemson, Miami-Florida State, Miami-Virginia Tech, Stanford-Cal, Stanford-SMU, and Cal-SMU."
ACC Announces Future Conference Football Schedule Model
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference announced today its future football schedule model for the next seven years, 2024 through 2030. With the addition of the ACC’s three new member institutions next summer – University of California (Cal), Southern Methodist University...theacc.com
Surprised that they’re able to get away with 8 conference games in the middle of their TV contract. The number of conference games are usually tied to that.
The ACC also currently only plays an 8 game conference schedule, right? And according to this will continue to do so for the next seven years, even with the newly added teams, right?
I don't care if it's 8 games or 9 games, but all of the major conferences should play the same number of conference games!
this sport has completely lost the plotThis very much reminds me of every time they decide to come in and change our systems (or bring on new ones) at my work. Inevitably (every time) the people making these upgrades have no idea what the point of the work is, how it’s done, etc…and the new system or update makes things worse than before. It takes longer to do the work, I have to work harder to deliver as good of an outcome, and I dislike my job just a little more.
It had to be 8 games or 10 because you can’t do 9 games with an odd number of teams. Going to 10 games would have been just asking for reduced bowl revenue, so it had to be 8.
I actually think they did a decent job with it. Looks like none of the current ACC teams have to travel to more than one of the newbies per year, and the new additions play home and away in alternate years so they “only” have to make three trips to the Eastern time zone.
Not sure there's anyone remotely viable at the moment.
Big 12 seems done adding football teams unless the ACC breaks up, which is probably a decade off.
Maybe gonzaga but i cant see uconn. If uconn comes its for football and that money. Otherwise theyre better off in the big east
I just assume if you're taking the Zags you're bringing in another to keep it even at 18.
I like the idea of not manufacturing a protects rivalry. We do not have anybody so just schedule.
Only - BYU/Utah, Arizona/state, KU/KSU
THATS ALL I SEE. Do not fabricate rivals.
Agreed. Protected rivalries is just another way to further unbalance schedules. If your rival is a powerhouse, is it fair that you have to play them every year where someone else gets a cream puff rival? If we don’t need divisions, we don’t need rivals.
Too many CCG matchups are going to be decided by unbalanced schedules already. Let’s not make it worse.
ACC just released how they were doing it:
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"The approved format will continue to have each member institution play eight conference games per season, with all 17 teams playing each other at least twice over the next seven seasons – once at home and once on the road. The current 14 conference teams will play a total of three times each in California over the seven years and none will travel west to California in back-to-back seasons.
The new scheduling model protects 16 annual matchups. Of the 16 matchups, 11 are retained from the current 3-5-5 schedule model, two are restored rivalries from the divisional format in Miami-Virginia Tech and NC State-Wake Forest and the three new schools fill the remaining three. The annual protected matchups are Boston College-Syracuse, Boston College-Pitt, Syracuse-Pitt, North Carolina-Virginia, North Carolina-Duke, North Carolina-NC State, NC State-Wake Forest, NC State-Duke, Duke-Wake Forest, Virginia Tech-Virginia, Florida State-Clemson, Miami-Florida State, Miami-Virginia Tech, Stanford-Cal, Stanford-SMU, and Cal-SMU."
ACC Announces Future Conference Football Schedule Model
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference announced today its future football schedule model for the next seven years, 2024 through 2030. With the addition of the ACC’s three new member institutions next summer – University of California (Cal), Southern Methodist University...
That link includes year-by-year itemization of competition too. Wow.
Florida State at 6-0 in the ACC has only 2 conference games left. They play Pittsburgh on Saturday and Miami next Saturday. They finish the season with 2 nonconference games. The ACC will be wrapped up while the other conferences are playing meaningful games.
I still think the smart thing is to organize it into regional protected rivalries:
ISU\KSU\Colorado\KU- old big 12 north region
Utah\UA\ASU\BYU- mountain region
Tech\TCU\Baylor\OSU- South region
Houston\UCF\WVU\Cincy- East region
i agree, I'd love to see that. Maybe we will to be "different" but haven't seen it anywhere else really with other conferences.