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EPISODE · Jul 22, 2026 · 23 MIN

How will ACC football tiebreakers ensure best teams reach title game?

from The C.L. Brown Show · host Courier Journal / USA TODAY Network

This episode of The C.L. Brown Show features Michael Strickland, the ACC's senior vice president for football, who joined to discuss the upcoming season. Strickland explains how the new nine-game schedule was the impetus for changing the league's old tiebreaker rules to determine who makes the ACC championship game. (It could be dubiously termed the "Duke rule" after a five-way tie for second place last season ended with a five-loss Blue Devils squad making the title game and then winning it.) Strickland also delves into how the ACC will rely on metrics to break future ties in the standings in order to identify the "most deserving team," and how College Football Playoff expansion talks could potentially impact the ACC title game — or phase it out altogether. Hear about that and more on this week's episode of The C.L. Brown Show.

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