ACC keeping 8-game conference football schedule

The ACC has decided to stick with an eight-game conference slate after initially deciding on nine league games

Notre Dame Joins ACC: Irish Create Major Scheduling Concerns For Georgia Tech And Others

Now that the dust has settled on the new of Notre Dame's sort-of addition to the ACC in football, fans and administrators at school like Georgia Tech are left asking one very important question: What about the schedule?

The ACC had previously announced it would expand to a 9-game regular season schedule before the Notre Dame news broke. With the Irish playing at least five ACC opponents a year, it's still unclear if those games will count as conference wins or losses. Plus, with nine conference games and Notre Dame on rotation, schools with permanent annual SEC rivalries -- Georgia Tech (Georgia), Florida State (Florida) and Clemson (South Carolina) could face an absolutely monstrous schedule each year that they play the Irish.

The AJC posits that this exact problem may force the conference to keep the eight-game format:

It will likely get discussed at league meetings in October and will be the decision of the athletic directors. Coach Paul Johnson was behind an eight-game schedule, as were most ACC coaches, even before the Notre Dame decision.

In addition to their standing series with Georgia, Tech also has pending series with Vanderbilt, Alabama, Ole Miss, South Carolina and Auburn. Clemson recently announced the cancellation of a two-game series with Ole Miss, citing scheduling uncertainty.

Also a concern that's as yet unadressed - if Notre Dame rotates each team on an even slate every five years, it still creates a gap, as there's only 15 opponents. However, Boston College and soon-to-be ACC member Pittsburgh are already regular Notre Dame opponents.

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Notre Dame Joins ACC: Earliest Georgia Tech Would Play Notre Dame In Football Is 2016

With Wednesday's announcement that the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are joining the ACC in all sports besides football -- outside of playing five ACC football opponents a year -- every school in the conference is wondering when they will play the Irish. The expectation is that Notre Dame will begin playing against ACC opponents in 2014, playing each school in the conference once every three years, with home and road games alternating.

Right now, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have three non-conference games lined up in both 2014 and 2015, Ken Sugiura of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. As a result, with the ACC going to a nine-game conference schedule in 2013, the earliest Georgia Tech could play Notre Dame is in 2016. However, contracts can be adjusted if need be to get the Irish on the schedule earlier.

For more on Notre Dame's move to the ACC, visit One Foot Down, and visit From the Rumble Seat for news on Georgia Tech. For even more news, notes and analysis from around the country, head over to SB Nation's college football news hub.

Notre Dame Joins ACC: Brian Gregory Excited About Irish

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball coach Brian Gregory is excited at the prospect of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish joining the ACC. He's also excited at how this will help the conference in exposure in other markets.

Notre Dame is a tremendous addition to the ACC, a school of long-standing tradition of athletics, and it matches us perfectly in terms of academic prestige in this conference. This also gets us into another major market - the Chicago market - and the ACC brand will continue to spread.

Especially after the additions of the Pittsburgh Panthers and the Syracuse Orange to the conference, Gregory is thrilled at how deep this makes the basketball part of the conference.

This solidifies us as the best and deepest basketball conference in the country with the success that Mike Brey has been able to establish with Notre Dame basketball. They add another power program to our league. He is one of the best and most well-respected coaches in terms of how he runs his program.

The Yellow Jackets are coming off a season where they went 11-20 overall with an ACC record of 4-12.

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Notre Dame Joins ACC: Conference Raises Exit Fee

The ACC has increased their exit fee from the conference to $50 million after the Notre Dame Fighting Irish decided to join the conference. According to the press release, this is a three-fold increase from the previous exit fee. The fee increase was voted on by the university's Council of Presidents,

The conference had previously obtained the Pittsburgh Panthers and the Syracuse Orange from the Big East. The Florida St. Seminoles had also been rumored to be jumping to the Big 12, but that failed to materialize over the summer.

The ACC and Notre Dame had been in talks around the time of the conference obtaining Pittsburgh and Syracuse about a postseason partnership based around the Orange Bowl. Time will tell if Notre Dame joins the conference fully

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Notre Dame Joins ACC: Georgia Tech's Paul Johnson Knows Irish Well From Navy Days

The big news of the day in college football - Notre Dame's sort-of commitment to the ACC in football - didn't seem to impress Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson all that much. Johnson admitted during the ACC teleconfernce he hadn't thought much about the potential impact, but the former Navy head man did admit that the Irish were always a huge game for the service academies (quote courtesy of the AJC):

"I think at Navy it was a little different because we played them every year. It was always a big game. Anytime you went into South Bend to play, it was a special deal and then we played our home games in different pro venues. We played them in FedEx (Field) or we played them in New York or different places. It was always a great challenge for our guys."

The Jackets and Irish have faced off before, as recently as a two-game home-and-home agreement in 2006-'07. Notre Dame leads the all-time series 27-6-1, but most of those games were played while both schools were independents. Tech joined the ACC in 1982.

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Notre Dame Joins ACC, In All Sports Besides Football, Hockey

Notre Dame and the ACC announced Wednesday the school will join the conference in all sports except football and hockey.