ACC ADs will hold a conference call Friday in which outgoing Georgia Tech AD Mike Bobinski anticipates discussing a "nine-game conference schedule" in football, and the "impetus for the discussion is the desire to provide inventory for the ACC Network" when it is scheduled to launch in '19, according to Ken Sugiura of the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION. Bobinski, who today was announced as the next Purdue AD, recently "brought up an intriguing alternative" -- keeping an eight-game conference schedule, but "requiring that teams play two non-conference games against power-conference teams." ACC teams will be required to "play one such game" beginning next season. The conference last month agreed to "expand its basketball conference schedule from 18 games to 20," starting in the '19-20 season (ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, 8/7). Five ACC schools -- Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Pitt -- are scheduled to play two other teams from Power Five conferences in '16, while two more ACC teams play a Power Five game and Notre Dame as part of the Fighting Irish's annual five-game ACC schedule (THE DAILY).
