Power Conference Exclusive Schedule

As part of the Autonomy discussion for the P5, there has been the talk of potentially making a fourth Division, I would assume the P5 would remain Division I in this case. ESPN polled the current P5 head coaches to see what their thoughts were on playing a schedule exclusively of P5 teams and it received a surprising level of support from a majority of the 65 coaches asked. 46% said they would be in favor of it, 18 % were undecided and 35 % were against it.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11320309/majority-power-f...

The only conference that was against the idea: The ACC, with their coaches going 6 against - 4 for - 4 undecided. The Big Ten was a wash and the other three P5 conferences wanted to go all P5 scheduling. I would be interested to see the reasoning from the ACC head coaches on why they would be opposed to going to this type of schedule, especially since it raises the competition level.

The only two ACC coaches mentioned specifically in the article was Al Golden, who was in favor of the all P5 schedule to help with selecting the top teams and Larry Fedora, who was against it because he felt it would be bad for college football overall because the next five conferences would not survive financially without playing some of the P5 teams.
Notre Dame's Brian Kelly was against it because it would mean ND could no longer play Navy, which isn't acceptable to him.

I wanted to see what your thoughts were on going to a pure P5 schedule. I personally would be in favor of it as it would make for more entertaining football and I think would get people better engaged with the program to constantly have high profile teams coming in year in and year out.

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