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mrcaniac

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The difficult part of the season will be the first couple weeks of the season.

Usually there are no conference games on the first weekend of the season, but teams play games from Thursday to Monday night (Labor Day weekend), so ESPN will usually only have to fit in 11-12 of the 14 ACC teams' games played that weekend onto ABC,ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNNews, Raycom, CSN/FSS, and the new ACCNetwork. Also, several of the teams will be the "away" team in games, so those games will be on Fox/FS1/FS2/CBS/CBSSN/BeIn/ASN. ESPN will have to get creative, but they should be able to get every game on one of those broadcast/cable outlets. There will probably be a tripleheader on the ACCNetwork in order to get them all on.

The 2nd and 3rd weekends are the tight ones. Usually no Thursday/Friday games, and all the games are on Saturday. Also, most are out of conference home games, so they fall on the ESPN/ACC contract.

Starting with the 4th week of the season until the ACC Championship game, this is when all the games will be available without a doubt. ACC teams play on a majority of the Thursday/Friday games, and the ACC goes into full conference games dropping the number of ACC games on Saturdays to 4-8 games. Once those get distributed across all the platforms, the ACCNetwork will probably only have a game or 2 on.

Where the ACCNetwork will be making its mark will be on replays. If the game was broadcast under the ESPN/ACC contract or the ACC team was the visiting team to a team with an ESPN/ABC contract, then that game will be replayed on the ACCNetwork.


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Link: ACC 2017 Football Schedule


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