Throughout the offseason and into this year, there was plenty of chatter about whether the ACC would move from its current eight-game conference schedule in football to a nine-game schedule.

Speculation came to an end–at least for now–on Wednesday when the league announced on Twitter that it would maintain the eight-game schedule.

The decision also keeps the league’s mandate that each of its teams schedules at least one non-conference game against a school from one of the other Power Five leagues (Big Ten, Big 12, PAC-12, SEC).

There had been some talk initially of keeping the eight-game slate, but mandating two non-conference games against Power Five schools.

Since the ACC expanded to its current 14 teams, many have argued that the scheduling is unbalanced.

As it stands, each team plays the other six in its division every year–while also playing a designated rival (NC State in UNC’s case) from the other division on an annual basis.

The eighth conference game rotates each year between the other six teams in the opposite division.

This is how UNC–playing in the Coastal Division–went six years in between matchups against Florida State, which plays in the Atlantic.

Of course, money always plays into these kinds of decisions. Because of that, this issue is likely to brought up again in the near future. For now, though, the ACC is just fine keeping things just how they are.

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