as UNC and VT. Depending on how the other schools vote, UVA could end up being placed in a quad with either UNC or VT or neither. Likewise, it is possible the majority of schools could vote to eliminate the protected cross-division game.

I understand that UVA could end up playing either UNC or VT or even both as OOC game(s) in years they don't play as a conference game. My point was it is possible UVA, UNC, and/or VT could find themselves in the situation where their OOC schedule is already full prior to the ACC's decision to switch to a quad system. Depending on the school's financial situation at the time, any one of the schools or all of the schools may not be in the financial situation to pay the cancellation fee in order to free up a spot for UVA/UNC/VT.

If you look at the WAC's situation, then you will see the BYU-Hawai'i and UNLV-San Diego State rivalries were sacrificed as annual games due to the rotating quad system. The ACC could find itself in a similar boat with any number of the rivalries that the schools have deemed to be "important" to them. Even though the WAC had 4 schools from the state of Texas, UTEP was not placed in the same quad as TCU, SMU, and Rice. Instead, the schools voted that Tulsa should have UTEP's spot. So I would not assume that there is any guarantees that the ACC would vote to put all 4 NC schools in the same quad. The schools could vote to place 1 NC school in each pod or 2 NC schools in 2 pods or even 3 NC schools in 1 pod and 1 NC school in another pod.