GOING FULL OFFSEASON CRAZY!
Summary Post!!!
Option #1: Championship Game Deregulation, 4-Team ACC Playoffs, and Notre Dame + Penn St as Full Members. 1a) Assuming Proper Divisions: each division winner gets a semi-final spot.-
ACC North: ND, BC, Syracuse, Penn St
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ACC Central: UVa, VT, Pitt, Louisville
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ACC South One: Clemson, GT, NCST, UNC
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ACC South Two: FSU, Maimi, Wake, Duke
1b) Assuming Pod Schedule: top 4 overall teams selected for semi-finals regardless of pod.- ACC North: ND, BC, Syracuse, Penn St
- ACC Central: UVa, VT, Pitt, Louisville
- ACC Carolina: Wake, Duke, NCST, UNC
- ACC South: FSU, Miami, GT, Clemson
Option #2: Championship Game Deregulation, 4-Team ACC Playoffs, and Notre Dame + Texas as Full Members. 2a) Assuming Proper Divisions: each division winner gets a semi-final spot.-
ACC Private: ND, BC, Syracuse, Texas
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ACC Central: UVa, VT, Pitt, Louisville
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ACC South One: Clemson, GT, NCST, UNC
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ACC South Two: FSU, Miami, Wake, Duke
2b) Assuming Pod Schedule: top 4 overall teams selected for semi-finals regardless of pod.- ACC Outsiders: ND, BC, Syracuse, Pitt
- ACC Non-Tobacco-Road-Traditional-ACC: UVa, VT, GT, Clemson
- ACC Proper: Wake, Duke, NCST, UNC
- ACC Baby Rapists: FSU, Miami, Texas, Louisville
Option #3: Championship Game Deregulation, 4-Team ACC Playoffs, and Notre Dame + Cincinnati as Full Members. 3a) Assuming Proper Divisions: each division winner assured a semi-final spot.- ACC Big East: ND, BC, Syracuse, Miami
- ACC Central: UVa, VT, Pitt, Cincinnati
- ACC South One B: Clemson, GT, NCST, UNC
- ACC South Two B: FSU, Louisville, Wake, Duke
3b) Assuming Pod Scheduling: top 4 overall teams selected for semi-finals regardless of pod.- ACC Big East: ND, BC, Syracuse, Miami
- ACC Central: UVa, VT, Pitt, Cincinnati
- ACC Carolina: Wake, Duke, NCST, UNC
- ACC South: FSU, Louisville, GT, Clemson
Personal preference:1. Option 1b - Penn St and Pods: Great rivals for BC and generally the entire conference. If BC does well, w/ Penn St and ND, we'd get in the semi-finals most likely. Top spot because I think it's best for the conference to prioritize regular season rivalry games over division parity for the semi-finals. Rivalries are good for TV matchups, good for attendance at games, good for the soul of the league.
2. Option 1a - Penn St and Divisions: Generally not as good for the ACC, don't like the Southern Divisions, but great schedule for BC and guaranteed a semi-final spot if we win a winnable division. Very unlikely given how much this screws all the N. Carolina schools in terms of competitiveness and rivalries.
3. Option 2b - Texas and Pods: Decent BC rivals, conference looks really awesome on the whole, but we'd be labelled the weak division...and BC would likely get passed over for a semi-final spot most years.
4. Option 3a - Cincinnati and Divisions: Great BC rivals, only one weaker division (Central), BC could win the Big East division and play in semi-final regularly.
5. Option 3b - Cincinnati and Pods: Great BC rivals, but the conference looks like it has 1great division and 2 middling divisions and 1 bad division (Carolina).
6. Option 2b - Texas and Divisions: Totally selfish, but I think this is death for BC. Texas, ND and Syracuse would be great on the schedule, but we'd almost never make the semi-finals. Maybe there's a better arrangement of teams for the "Texas and Divisions" option, but I don't see it. And Swofford would absolutely drool over this option! Most years' semi-finals would be ND/Texas vs. FSU/Clemson and VT/Louisville vs. Miami/GT or some other combination of those 8 teams. That's a sexy semi-final slate of games.