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[QUOTE="billybud, post: 2103431, member: 3850"]
From the 2015 ACC spring meeting:

[B]The easy answer is to add another conference game. But athletic directors voted last year to stay at eight, continuing the scheduling conundrum. With eight games in place, two ideas have been discussed more than the others: eliminating divisions and eliminating permanent crossover opponents.

There is no traction to get rid of the division format. So scratch that.

Eliminating permanent crossover opponents is a bit trickier. Some of the most traditional rivalry games in the ACC happen between teams in separate divisions. Getting rid of Miami-Florida State, and NC State-North Carolina are nonstarters.

But Swofford did say one scheduling model they have looked at would try to keep all traditional rivalry games within the same division, allowing for the elimination of the permanent crossover opponent. To do that, divisions would have to be reshuffled.

There is no traction for that yet, either.

Swofford said...
"Different people will make different assumptions about people that have to play each other every year."

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