Right now with a 12-team league and 16 game conference round-robin schedule each team has 2 partners and then 3 rotating groups of 3 teams.  Each year a team plays it's 2 partners home-away, and then there are the rotating groups of 3 teams home-away, 3 teams only home and 3 teams only away.

When the conference expands to 14-teams next year things may look very different.  I think keeping a conference round-robin is a MUST!  At the same time I don't want 20 conference games.  There is a way to keep the format already in place and only increase the conference schedule to 18 games...

Each team will now have 3 partners (keep existing rivalries and now can expand to accommodate new ones)... then five groups of 2 teams that will rotate each year.  One group will be played home-away, two groups (4 teams) just home and two groups just away.  And these groups of 2 will rotate each year.

Here is a table of the current 2 partner system that has been used for 4 years and MY idea of the best 3rd partner for each team if the ACC adopted this system (Bolded)

For this I tried to be non-bias and think what the conference and teams would want...  So I put the Carolina schools together, gave BC a northern neighbor and promoted a boarder rivalry between Maryland and Pittsburgh (even though I would rather have Maryland and Syracuse)

How do you like this schedule and my predicted 3rd annual home-away partner for each school?