![]() Florida State Seminolesįlorida State-Miami is the 'Noles permanent cross-division rival, so we're good there. State is the lone casualty of the divisional format, with an 82-game series played just once every six seasons. Duke-UNC is a Coastal Division game, while Wake Forest is Duke's protected cross-over. Two of Duke's three series against Carolina teams are preserved. State and Wake Forest are Atlantic Division contests, while Clemson-Georgia Tech is a protected cross-division series. Clemson TigersĮach of Clemson's three longest ACC series are still played annually. If the division and scheduling model aren't altered over the next decade, Clemson (33), Virginia Tech (32) and Wake Forest (31) will have all surpassed or drawn even with BC's two former Big East foes, which, weird. Unfortunately for the Eagles, two of the three longest series against now ACC programs in program history are now cross-division affairs - meaning that under the current setup, BC will only face Pittsburgh or Miami once every six seasons. ![]() Here are the top three longest series for each program (bold italics for series still played annually): Boston College Eagles Lucky for Greensboro, I've put together this handy table: While total games played isn't a full proof proxy for which intra-conference series to hold onto, it does give a good sense of the series most worth protecting. The question becomes which series are most worth protecting in an alternate model. If the ACC is going to make wholesale changes to the current Atlantic/Coastal Division setup - say, in favor of eliminating divisions altogether and moving to a scheduling model with both permanent and rotating scheduling partners - the conference brass is going to want to protect long-established rivalries. Same deal for the Big 12, which could use the lack of a conference championship game to its advantage. For example, the current division alignment could protect the league's second best team from incurring additional losses, making them more appealing to the CFP selection committee. My guess is conferences will feel out how the first few years of the College Football Playoff go before deciding to make tweaks to their conference championship game setup. While the power 5 conferences will likely have greater autonomy to qualify teams for their conference championship game, change, if there even is any, will be more gradual. Should the ACC's proposal go through, conferences would be free to choose a football conference winner as they see fit. ![]() Under the current structure, conferences must have at least 12 programs, an equal number of teams in each division and every team must play each opponent in its own division. Right now, the NCAA imposes restrictions on conferences that want to hold a conference championship game. Now that the conferences have the ability to play by their own set of rules, you may eventually see changes to the way in which the power 5 conferences determine a champion in football. Way back in February, the ACC pushed legislation that would give the conference "the autonomy" to determine how teams qualify for their conference championship game in football. One of the byproducts of the NCAA's decision to grant the power 5 conferences greater autonomy could be relaxed restrictions on how conferences determine its football champion.
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