The ACC has announced a new scheduling format for football with the elimination of divisions and the implementation of a 3-5-5 opponent structure.
The new system, revealed on Tuesday, will come into effect from 2023.
In the new scheduling model, all 14 ACC schools will now have three primary opponents who they will face each year. They will play each of the other 10 schools once over a two-year span – five one year and the other five the next.
In this format, every ACC team will play all conference foes at least once at home and once on the road over a four-year cycle.
This ends years of an unbalanced schedule that resulted in some ACC schools going nearly a decade without facing another conference member. For instance, Florida State and Pittsbu…