Happy Thursday, everyone. Yesterday the ACC approved an 11 game scheduling model with 10 conference games and one additional game to be held in the home state of the ACC school, seemingly designed to preserve the in-state rivalry games. Alas, the SEC is reportedly leaning toward a conference-only slate. As Nicole Auerbach notes, this puts the SEC in something of a precarious position.
My next question: Will the ACC's formal unveiling of the plus-one model force the SEC to do the same? Can the SEC *really* be the one to cancel those in-state rivalries?