Miami, Notre Dame and Syracuse have a few extra factors working in their favor as they navigate their 2022-23 schedules.
Keep in mind that, while the league mandates the location and timing of regular-season ACC games, coaches have considerable influence on who, where and when they undertake nonconference competition prior to the turn of the year. (For those of you with a bent toward journalism, why is a more complex factor and how is a matter of the moment.)
Given those parameters, under-appreciated Irish coach Mike Brey again loaded up on home games, leading ACC squads with 20, half of them outside the league.