Orange or Cotton

would have provided us the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious opportunity to play another ACC team. Good Lord!

Shouldn't Jack be able to negotiate a deal that would include us for bowl consideration among ACC candidates rather than as an ACC Opponent only? After all, we went 4-0 against them.

Instead of ACC v. SEC/B10/ ND make it ACC or ND v. the field...Rick

Your last paragraph says it all. *

Why would the ACC agree to that? *

Why would we agree to play 4-5 ACC games a year?

Quid pro quo

You know that answer. *

That's way too logical! And it's not just Jack.

I remember when they first announced that Orange Bowl tie-in, I had to read it twice because I fully expected it to be exactly how you proposed and it made no goddamned sense that they would build in the potential for rematches of teams we play every 3 years as a feature, not a bug.

I'm not saying that ND deserves it because unless we're ranked #12 we certainly don't, but just looking at it solely from the perspective of the ACC and the Orange Bowl, this would have been the perfect year to bail themselves out of a lopsided and uninteresting matchup by replacing the 2nd place ACC team with ND.