I was looking at the schedules for 2013 now that the 14 team version is a go.

It looks to me like there are two ways to do this.
Right now you play either 2 or 3 in division home games with the crossover partner evening out to make it 3 and 3. Then there is a home away split against the other two cross division opponents.

1. Keep the cross division opponents with a home/away split.

2. Put the cross division opponents on the opposite split as the primary crossover.

EDIT: After looking at it, I changed my understanding of this some.

Potential VT schedule for 2013:

Home Coastal: Miami, UNC, Pitt
Away Coastal: GT, UVA, Duke


Scenario 1:
Away: BC
Home/Away split: 2 Atlantic opponents (FSU away, UMD home next scheduled)

Scenario 2:
Home: BC
Away: 2 Atlantic opponents (Maryland and FSU are next up)

OOC:
Alabama in Atlanta
Home: Western Carolina, Marshall

potential Pitt schedule for 2013:

Home Coastal: Miami, UNC, UVA
Away Coastal: VT, Duke, GT

Scenario 1:
Away: Cuse
Home/Away split: 2 Atlantic opponents

Scenario 2:
Home: Cuse
Away: 2 Atlantic opponents

OOC:
Home: Villanova, Notre Dame
Away: Navy

GT has a problem in that UGA, VT, and Clemson are all on the same home/away rotation. GT would definitely prefer option 1.

FSU has their rivals more evenly spaced with Miami/Florida opposite each other and Clemson/Florida on the same rotation. Option 1 would not change anything while Option 2 would switch Miami. Probably prefer option 1.

Clemson has FSU/USC on opposite years. They would probably not care if GT was switched.

UNC has NCSU and VT on the same rotation. They would support option 2 to get them on an opposite rotation.

After looking it over, I think that they will go with option 1 to help GT out.

Syracuse potential schedule for 2013:

Home Atlantic: Clemson, BC, Wake
Away Atlantic: FSU, Maryland, NCSU

Most likely scenario:
Home: Pitt
Home/Away split: 2 Coastal opponents

OOC:
Penn State in NJ
Away: Northwestern
TBD

Wasn't there an announcement stating which schools were going to have 4 conf home games vs 5 home games? Was it something like the Atlantic will have 5 home games on odd years while the Coastal has 5 home games on even years?

This one goes with the cross division split

http://www.seventhfloorblog.com/2012/7/1...-schedules

(07-19-2012 05:24 PM)miko33 Wrote:  Wasn't there an announcement stating which schools were going to have 4 conf home games vs 5 home games? Was it something like the Atlantic will have 5 home games on odd years while the Coastal has 5 home games on even years?

Atlantic has 5 home games even years and Coastal odd.

(07-19-2012 05:30 PM)ej6687 Wrote:  

(07-19-2012 05:24 PM)miko33 Wrote:  Wasn't there an announcement stating which schools were going to have 4 conf home games vs 5 home games? Was it something like the Atlantic will have 5 home games on odd years while the Coastal has 5 home games on even years?

Atlantic has 5 home games even years and Coastal odd.

Just read your link. I think it's reverse of what you just typed. Thanks for the link!

Quote:Before we get started, lets go over some ground rules the ACC has established in scheduling. John Swofford has already come out stating the ACC will expand to 9 conference games once Pittsburgh and Syracuse both officially join. Syracuse is joining the Atlantic, Pittsburgh will roll into the Coastal with Miami. Each team will play all six divisional opponents, one cross-divisional rival, and two other cross divisional games. In odd numbered years, the Atlantic division will get 5 home games; in even numbered years the home field advantage will go to the Coastal division. Ok, everybody got all that? Too bad, we're moving on!

(07-19-2012 05:24 PM)miko33 Wrote:  Wasn't there an announcement stating which schools were going to have 4 conf home games vs 5 home games? Was it something like the Atlantic will have 5 home games on odd years while the Coastal has 5 home games on even years?

Yes.

Right now the teams either have 2 or 3 in division home games with the permanent crossover making up the difference for a 3/3. Then you split home/away with two other opponents from the other division.

My best guess is that they'll use the extra game to plug Pitt and Cuse into the schedule to create 3/3 in division home/away split.

Then if they chose to keep the cross division home/away split like they have now, some teams will have to play at home two years in a row against their primary rival. Assuming they go to a schedule that has the primary rival being the difference between 4/5 home games they'll need to line it up by division with the Atlantic getting home games against their rivals on odd years. Some teams will have to play back to back regardless of how they decide this part. In the most likely scenario you would have VT/BC playing at BC two years, GT/Clemson playing at Clemson two years, and Duke/WF playing at WF two years.

This has the benefit of fixing GT's scheduling problems I mentioned above.

(07-19-2012 05:34 PM)miko33 Wrote:  

(07-19-2012 05:30 PM)ej6687 Wrote:  

(07-19-2012 05:24 PM)miko33 Wrote:  Wasn't there an announcement stating which schools were going to have 4 conf home games vs 5 home games? Was it something like the Atlantic will have 5 home games on odd years while the Coastal has 5 home games on even years?

Atlantic has 5 home games even years and Coastal odd.

Just read your link. I think it's reverse of what you just typed. Thanks for the link!

Quote:Before we get started, lets go over some ground rules the ACC has established in scheduling. John Swofford has already come out stating the ACC will expand to 9 conference games once Pittsburgh and Syracuse both officially join. Syracuse is joining the Atlantic, Pittsburgh will roll into the Coastal with Miami. Each team will play all six divisional opponents, one cross-divisional rival, and two other cross divisional games. In odd numbered years, the Atlantic division will get 5 home games; in even numbered years the home field advantage will go to the Coastal division. Ok, everybody got all that? Too bad, we're moving on!

That's odd. With UNC and Duke in the Coastal, you'd think the Coastal would start out with 5 games. Probably has to do with the balancing of the schedule for teams that play SEC schools at the end of the year.

(07-19-2012 05:39 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(07-19-2012 05:34 PM)miko33 Wrote:  

(07-19-2012 05:30 PM)ej6687 Wrote:  

(07-19-2012 05:24 PM)miko33 Wrote:  Wasn't there an announcement stating which schools were going to have 4 conf home games vs 5 home games? Was it something like the Atlantic will have 5 home games on odd years while the Coastal has 5 home games on even years?

Atlantic has 5 home games even years and Coastal odd.

Just read your link. I think it's reverse of what you just typed. Thanks for the link!

Quote:Before we get started, lets go over some ground rules the ACC has established in scheduling. John Swofford has already come out stating the ACC will expand to 9 conference games once Pittsburgh and Syracuse both officially join. Syracuse is joining the Atlantic, Pittsburgh will roll into the Coastal with Miami. Each team will play all six divisional opponents, one cross-divisional rival, and two other cross divisional games. In odd numbered years, the Atlantic division will get 5 home games; in even numbered years the home field advantage will go to the Coastal division. Ok, everybody got all that? Too bad, we're moving on!

That's odd. With UNC and Duke in the Coastal, you'd think the Coastal would start out with 5 games. Probably has to do with the balancing of the schedule for teams that play SEC schools at the end of the year.

GT/UGA is on a different home/away sched than Clem/USC and FSU/UF. So it works out better to line it up to fit with those games acting as the 5th home game when they only have 4 ACC games.

VT's across division rotation has been:

FSU
Maryland
NCSU
Wake
Clemson

I'm going to predict that Syracuse does not get added to our rotation until at least after Maryland. The reason being that FSU isn't happy about their home schedule so they won't want to give up a home game with VT next year and the Maryland series has already had a neutral site game scheduled in Baltimore for the return trip there.

(07-19-2012 05:47 PM)4x4hokies Wrote:  VT's across division rotation has been:

FSU
Maryland
NCSU
Wake
Clemson

I'm going to predict that Syracuse does not get added to our rotation until at least after Maryland. The reason being that FSU isn't happy about their home schedule so they won't want to give up a home game with VT next year and the Maryland series has already had a neutral site game scheduled in Baltimore for the return trip there.

Nicely researched, Hokie! This makes sense and I hope the ACC is smart enough to figure this out too.

Some of you are scheduling wizards! I'm a real dummy when it comes to this!