The Atlantic Coast Conference has unveiled a new scheduling model to incorporate new members California, Stanford and SMU for next year. The model includes those schools facing each other as annual opponents while staying with a no-division format. The league announced its reworked scheduling plan Monday evening.
Stanford quarterback Justin Lamson, left, is congratulated by teammates after scoring against Washington during the second half of an NCAA college football game in Stanford, Calif., Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. California quarterback Fernando Mendoza throws a pass while pressured by Southern California linebacker Tackett Curtis during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Berkeley, Calif., Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023.
The move comes after the ACC voted in early September to add Stanford and Cal from the Pac-12, and SMU from the American Athletic Conference next year. The move pushed the league to 18 members in most sports, with Notre Dame remaining a football independent. Yet the league faced new challenges by growing out of its eastern-seaboard footprint to reach across the country — with a stop in Texas in between — and create more extensive travel demands and more headaches for preserving regional rivalries.No. 12 Notre Dame loses tight end Mitchell Evans, its top receiver, to season-ending knee injury, a plan that included the elimination of the two-division format for a single division-free chase for the two spots in the ACC championship game.
That “3-5-5” model went into effect this season, which gave each ACC football member three permanent scheduling partners to play each year. Teams would then face the other 10 teams once every two years; five one year, five the next. It meant every ACC team will play all conference opponents home and away at least once every four years.
That represented a significant departure from the previous scheduling rotation that often had cross-divisional matchups going dormant for years, such as nearby neighbors Duke and North Carolina State meeting this year in Durham for the first time since 2013.
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