(08-02-2020 08:56 PM)Statefan Wrote:  

(08-02-2020 06:17 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Anyone want to take a stab at what each team’s 4 permanent rivals would be if the ACC, with ND as their 15th, adopted such a model?

UNC - NCSU/Duke/UVa/WF (all of these games played over 105 times)
NCSU - Duke/UNC/WF/UVa (returns Duke and UVa giving access to State of Va)
UVa - VT/UNC/NCSU/Pitt (keeps game with Pitt)
VT - BC/UVa/WF/ Miami (restores things with WF - their closest)
Duke - UNC/GT/WF/NCSU (keeps GT, adds NC State)
WF - NCSU/VT/Duke/UNC (adds UNC and VT, ratchets back Clemson)
GT - Duke/FSU/CU/Louisville (significant trades here to add FSU and Louisville)
Clemson - BC/FSU/GT/Louisville (reduces annual games in NC and Va)
FSU - Miami/GT/Clemson/Syracuse (What they want, bumping BC)
Miami - ND/FSU/VT/Louis (Convicts v. Catholics)
Louisville - Syracuse/Clemson/GT/Miami (Southern orientation for Louis)
BC - ND/Syracuse/Clemson/VT (ND plus two good Southern games)
Syracuse - Louisville/BC/Pitt/FSU (High profile FSU game, then traditional BE foes)
Pitt - ND/Syracuse/Louisville/UVa (Traditional and regional)
ND - Pitt/Miami/BC/ (These three are likely most palatable to ND on an annual basis)

In this model UNC/GT and NC State/Clemson are broken, however with a 4-5 you are going to see that old rival every other year. This allows you to concentrate regional rivalries, and in some cases allow for a longer distance relationship to continue like BC/Clemson and Syracuse/FSU. Their isolation in the far north of the ACC creates the need for them to have a southern partner so to speak.

I may have messed up but come up one short for ND. Theoretically they could play one less league game and it should not matter.

I didn't analyze it in depth, but I can see you have Louisville down as an opponent 5 times. Pitt is not listed as an opponent for Louisville though.