After an ongoing squabble on deciding on a possible new scheduling format for the ACC, the athletic directors voted to keep things the same.
Breaking news hit the college football world specifically the Atlantic Coast Conference. No, Louisville’s all-everything quarterback Lamar Jackson didn’t walk away with the Heisman Trophy two months too soon. But there is news worth noting on the conference. Athletic directors voted to continue playing an eight-game league schedule with at least one power-five nonconference games.
Prior to coming to a decision today, the athletic directors of the Atlantic Coast Conference met this week to discuss the likelihood of adding a game to its eight-game conference schedule.
#BREAKING: #ACC ADs vote to continue playing an eight-game league schedule with at least one Power Five nonconference game. #ACCFootball pic.twitter.com/XAU2d7EIP4
— ACC Football (@ACCFootball) October 5, 2016
Of course, the talk centered on the schedule switch was motivated by M-O-N-E-Y. Not too long ago, ESPN molded a deal with the ACC to create a network for the conference by 2019. In trying to attract more high-profile games across the conference. Fans would like to see more quarrels like last Saturday’s barnburner between Louisville and Clemson instead of watching boring games such as Florida State versus Charleston Southern.
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Having said that, the ACC and the SEC are the only power five conferences that play eight conference games instead of nine. With having one less game it allows teams to play a lesser opponent. Scheduling one more conference game would afford the opportunity for teams in the conference to face other national powerhouses in other conferences.
While we are constantly brainwashed about how tough the SEC schedules are, they rarely face a formidable out of conference foe. To some, the SEC is arguably the best conference in college football, the ACC may have wanted to take a page out of their book to ascend into the hierarchy of college football conferences like them.
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So far the reaction to stick with the same schedule are uneven. Despite the difference in opinions, playing the same schedule hasn’t hurt the ACC. They’ve had a representative in the first two College Football Playoffs, and they are well on their way having a representative for the third year in a row. Having said that, it may have been a key reason why they kept things the same.
Change is inevitable, and with the decision today, it shows the conference isn’t ready to adjust like their other counterparts in college football, which is fine.