CHARLOTTE – ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips was asked about the possibility of moving to a nine-game football conference schedule at ACC Football Kickoff on Tuesday in Charlotte, N.C.
The question came after SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey announced he was in favor of shifting to nine games of conference-play at SEC Media Days last week, with hopes of pushing the Big Ten conference to vote for a 5+11 model in the College Football Playoff.
“We have discussed nine,” Phillips said in his Commissioner’s Forum at the Hilton Uptown in Charlotte. “The group has always felt that, at the end of the day, those nonconference games have really been good for the league and we have really scheduled well… If you go to nine, if the SEC ends up going to nine and maybe we end up going to nine, I think there’s a few challenges.