ACC ANNOUNCES FALL SPORTS PLANS: WHAT ARE THEY AND WHAT DO THEY MEAN FOR PITT? Alex Lehmbeck Sports Editor
College sports are back. Well, sort of. Maybe. After a summer of ambiguity, the Atlantic Coast Conference released an updated schedule in late July for ensuing fall sports seasons, creating a separate plan for football and the rest of the fall sports. Football Three weeks after the Big Ten announced it would move to a conferenceonly season, the ACC made similar changes. Each ACC team will play 10 conference opponents and one non-conference team, with each non-conference game taking place in the ACC team’s home state. Temporarily scrapping the tradi-
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Temporarily scrapping the traditional Atlantic and Coastal divisions, the ACC football teams will act as a singular division, with each school assigned five home games and five away games. Sarah Cutshall Visual Editor
August 19, 2020
tional Atlantic and Coastal divisions, the ACC has completely upended the previous conference football schedule. The teams will act as a singular division, with each school assigned five home games and five away games. For the first time in 132 years, Notre Dame has agreed to join a conference football slate. The notoriously independent program will join the ACC for the 2020 season, and become eligible to earn a spot in the ACC Championship game. The school already competes in the ACC in every sport except football and hockey, the latter of which participates in the Big 10. In accordance with the new plan, every team would play its first game the week of Sept. 7. The two teams with the See ACC on page 29
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