It’s exciting simply to finally have a football schedule to talk about—I can’t help but feel a little amped out of sheer reflex—but I was surprised to see how audacious it is in scope. While we knew a schedule with fewer games was certain, I also expected ACC officials to more practically build these slates with travel in mind.
Instead, the ACC built the schedule like a beta test in an otherwise normal year, with no consideration whatsoever for clustering schools regionally. It is an optimistic choice, to be kind, and one made as though there aren’t hordes of anti-mask dipshits burning the country down from the inside one trip to Applebee’s at a time.