Clemson and Notre Dame both had last weekend off heading into Saturday's ACC Championship Game, but commissioner John Swofford told ESPN's Andrea Adelson that a complaint about the scheduling from SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey "rings pretty hollow."
On Saturday, Sankey criticized scheduling in the Big Ten and Pac-12, where teams won't play eight games this season, and the Dec. 12 cancellations in the ACC, noting that Florida will have played for eight consecutive weeks at the end of the championship game.
Per Adelson, Clemson did not want to travel to Florida last weekend, so the ACC decided it wouldn't make Notre Dame play and would instead determine the title game participants based on a nine-game schedule.