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The Atlantic Coast Conference has announced that it will be changing to a nine game regular season football schedule when Syracuse and Pittsburgh are integrated into the league. The scheduling was approved by the ACC's Faculty Athletic representatives and Athletic Directors. The announcement was made after the ACC Winter meetings concluded.
"We have engaged in discussions on the various options for integrating Pitt and Syracuse since early fall, "said ACC Commissioner John Swofford. "It's a tremendous tribute to the leadership at our schools that we will be able to seamlessly add Pitt and Syracuse at the appropriate time when they become full playing members."
The Atlantic and Coastal divisions will remain the same with Syracuse joining the Atlantic and Pitt joining the Coastal. The current primary crossover partners will remain consistent with Syracuse and Pitt becoming primary crossover partners with each other.
When Pitt and Syracuse join the ACC, the league will play a nine-game conference schedule. The format will consist of each team playing all six in its division each year, plus its primary crossover partner each year and two rotating opponents from the opposite division.
This six-year cycle allows each team to play each divisional opponent and its primary crossover partner six times (three home and three away) while also playing each rotating crossover opponent two times (one home and one away).
It will be interesting to see how teams like Georgia Tech adjust their non-conference schedules to accomodate playing an additional conference game.
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