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The Navy series could be dropped as well. by Piertravlr

If I were the AD, and assuming full ACC membership is required, the only traditional series I would preserve would be the USC rivalry.

Assuming the PTB and NBC require 7 home games when possible (which is very likely), the non-ACC schedule would allow for only 3 non-ACC home and away series since a "buy" game would be needed to increase the number of home games. I would reserve one for USC, and keep the other two free.

8 ACC games (4 home and 4 away)

1 buy game (home)

USC rivalry

2 home and away series (1 home game)

Under that scenario, each season would have either 6 or 7 home games, depending on where the USC game is played.

The schedule could become really crappy (e.g., Clemson's schedule above) if the Admin required a number of "2 home games and 1 away game" relationships to increase the number of seasons with 7 home games. This would really decrease the quality of the home opponents even further. Mandating 7 home games a season would require 2 buy games, which would even be worse (again, see Clemson schedule above).