>>Syracuse University can cancel its football series with Connecticut if the ACC amends its scheduling format.
That provision, buried in the recently signed contract between the two schools, could apply when the current ACC scheduling agreement expires after the 2024 season. It can also be triggered with a move to nine conference games or changes to the ACC’s football membership, according to a copy of the contract obtained by syracuse.com/The Post-Standard.
Syracuse and Connecticut recently announced a four-game series, with games to be played at UConn in 2022 and 2027 and at Syracuse in the 2025 and 2026 seasons.
The contract gives SU the flexibility to back out of the deal without financial penalty if, for example, College Football Playoff expansion sets off seismic changes to the sport’s landscape or the ACC decides to shake up its mundane schedule.
Without such changes, it would cost the school $1 million to cancel the series unless the decision was mutually agreed upon.
UConn will pay Syracuse $250,000 for the 2022 game in East Hartford, Conn. SU will then pay UConn the same amount for its return trip to the Carrier Dome in 2025, the contract reads. The compensation increases to $300,000 for the 2026 and 2027 games. Those figures are slightly less than the $350,000 payment contracted by both schools during their previous two-game series in 2016 and 2018.<<
