In early January, FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver brought up the idea of how to improve college football scheduling. Specifically, improving it to remove the need for conference championship games, increase rivalry games and of course, remove the awful divisions we’re annually subjected to. This should be a very welcome sight for Syracuse Orange fans in particular, who must suffer through a gauntlet of an ACC Atlantic schedule we could very much do without.
So what would these “power pairings” Silver describes look like for the ACC? (he only breaks them down for the Big Ten) Some advance rules, as Silver spells them out:
- Teams play rivalry games in weeks 2, 4 and 7.