(05-07-2020 07:46 AM)orangefan Wrote:  For most schools in the ACC, based on their scheduling practices, it appears to be more financially advantageous to play a home and home with a G5 school than to pay for a buy game. I have no problem with this generally, but prefer any straight up home and homes be with stronger G5 opponents like Army or members of the AAC or MWC.

Exactly. Those upper level schools in the G5 have the brand strength to not really harm you in scheduling. Heck, we are all die-hards and geeks on the message board-- the casual sports fan in most markets have no clue what conference UCF, Boise or Houston is. They just know they see them on TV. As a Cincinnati fan I have had many casual fans from different parts of the the country tell me they assumed UC was still in the Big East. Don't get me wrong, they realize we are not Alabama or Texas, but they had no idea we are considered a "lesser" program in the college football world than many of the schools in the ACC and some other P5 conferences.