The move to 20 games means more ACC games but it also means that teams are less willing to play challenging non-conference opponents. The margin of error is less.
As it turns out, ACC fans aren’t alone in having to adjust to lesser schedules. Kentucky fans aren’t very happy either.
One fan wrote the Herald-Leader to complain that the non-conference home schedule is a “valueless product.”
Kentucky is hosting Eastern Kentucky, Evansville, Utah Valley, Mount St. Mary’s, Lamar, UAB and Fairleigh Dickinson which is not exactly Murderer’s Row.
Then again Duke gets Colorado State, Central Arkansas, Georgia State, Stephen F.