The ACC revealed its new seven-year football scheduling model as a 17-team league with new members Cal, Stanford and SMU on Monday, featuring 16 protected matchups.
The league will continue to play eight conference games without divisions. All 17 teams will play each other at least twice over the next seven seasons -- once at home and once on the road. The 14 current ACC teams will play a total of three times each in California through 2030, and none will travel to California in back-to-back seasons.
"I was vocal to the conference office that we don't have a true rival in the ACC, so we can be more flexible with trying to put a schedule together," Louisville athletic director Josh Heird told ESPN."What are the tried and true rivals we have to keep together? Viewership drives some of these matchups. But all in all, I think everybody is pretty happy - as happy as you can be trying to accommodate 17 different wants and needs.
For example, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Florida State and Miami play each other 24 percent of their games between 2024-2030. Boston College, Pitt, Louisville and Syracuse will have 32 percent of their games against one another. The Carolina and Virginia schools also will play each other more frequently.
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