ACC keeps current 8-game conference schedule for football
Courtesy of the ACC
The Atlantic Coast Conference will stay with an eight-game conference schedule, the conference athletic directors decided.
The Atlantic Coast Conference athletic directors have voted to keep the conference’s current eight-game conference schedule with at least one nonconference game against a Power 5 team.
#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 (@theACCfootball) October 5, 2016
The athletic directors were considering switching to a nine-game schedule, according to The New York Times, for financial reasons and due to pressure from ESPN, which recently entered into a deal with the ACC to create a conference network and online streaming platform.
The ACC and the Southeastern Conference are the only power conferences that don’t play a nine-game conference schedule. Sticking with the eight-game format gives Syracuse and the other ACC schools more flexibility in creating their schedules — giving them the option of scheduling a weaker opponent to help bowl chances.
Published on October 5, 2016 at 6:27 pm
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