ACC's plan once Pittsburgh, Syracuse join bumps conference schedule up to 9 games in football

Hurricanes fans can say good-bye to a fourth non-conference game once former Big East partners Syracuse and Pittsburgh join the ACC. ACC Commissioner John Swofford announced Friday the future scheduling formats once the league expands to 14 teams and instead of playing eight conference games in football, every team will now play nine. The format will consist of each team playing all six teams in its division each year, plus its primary crossover partner (in UM's case Florida State) each year and two rotating opponents from the opposite division. Pittsburgh, which will join UM in the Coastal Division, will be Syracuse's cross over opponent. Here's how the divisions will look in football: > Atlantic: Clemson, Florida State, Wake Forest, N.C. State, Boston College, Maryland and Syracuse. > Coastal: Miami, Virginia Tech, Virginia, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Duke and Pittsburgh. > When it comes to hoops, the ACC has already employed an 18-game conference sc...