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Calamitous

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I'll take a stab...


One 14 team conference (as it is today) with no divisions or pods. This all assumes a 9-game conference schedule every year. ACCCG would be the two teams with the best conference record. Every team gets 5 sticky rivals every year:

UNC = NCSU, Duke, WF, UVa and Clemson
NCSU = UNC, WF, Duke, FSU and VT
Duke = WF, UNC, NCSU, GT and UVa
WF = Duke, NCSU, UNC, Clemson and BC
Clemson = GT, FSU, UVa, WF and UNC
UVa = VT, GT, Clemson, UNC and Duke
GT = Clemson, UVa, FSU, Duke and BC
FSU = Miami, Clemson, GT, NCSU and Louisville
VT = UVa, Miami, Pittsburgh, Louisville and NCSU
Miami = FSU, VT, BC, SU and Pitt
BC = Louisville, SU, Miami, Pitt and GT
Pitt = SU, Louisville, VT, BC and Miami
SU = Pitt, BC, Louisville, Miami and WF
Louisville = BC, Pitt, SU, VT and FSU

Personally, I'd like for Tech to really have UVa, NCSU, Clemson, FSU and GT every year, but I don't think we'd be that lucky and the charter members + UVa, GT and FSU would likely get dibs on their rival games first.

SU would want Pitt, Miami, BC and GT to hit the major metropolitan areas (one of their gripes a few years ago)... and I stuck them with Wake (ha ha). They still get 3 big cities though

I think the original 5 charter members would be OK with the arrangement I have... although NCSU may not want to play us as much as we would want to play them (IDK). The next 3 in (UVa, GT and FSU) have to make slight concessions.

The last 6 in (VT, UM, BC, SU, Pitt and UL) look generally OK, although there are more concessions with this group than the previous

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Now... I don't know if you could make the remaining 8 non-rival schools schedule correctly over a 4-year cycle, but you could have home-and-home series with 4 schools for 2 years straight, and the other 4 schools in year 3 and 4. If the numbers and scheduling works out with the remaining 8 non-rivals, it's possible that every school gets to see one another 4 to 6 times per decade. In other words, Tech could see Clemson and FSU 4 times (sometimes 6 depending on the decade) per decade. A little better than what we have now.

(In response to this post by Maroon Baboon)

Posted: 06/26/2016 at 10:22PM



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What are your Top ACC Rivalries that need to be protected? -- Maroon Baboon 06/25/2016 6:15PM
  And you would be wrong... -- gman86 06/27/2016 11:24AM
  IMO, Clemson needs to play the following every year -- ren_hoek 06/27/2016 07:19AM
  List of Rivalries - as you asked -- mjfhokie 06/26/2016 10:29PM
  This is mostly correct, except for Georgia Tech -- HOO86 06/27/2016 10:55AM
  According to my count, that's 20 games. -- Maroon Baboon 06/27/2016 12:29AM
  I'll take a stab... -- Calamitous 06/26/2016 10:22PM
  Most of all Virginia and Miami ** -- BigCrumpy 06/26/2016 3:56PM
  My question was for the entire ACC, not just VT.** -- Maroon Baboon 06/26/2016 4:11PM
  Not terribly difficult without fixed divisions -- Colonel Jessup 06/26/2016 11:28AM
  Something like this -- Old Line Hokie 06/25/2016 7:25PM

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