College Football: Why the ACC and SEC should combine for 2020 season

3. Geographic sense

The most logical reason for why this makes sense is simple geography.

When you’re looking at the ACC and SEC, there are a ton of programs who are within miles of one another. You could simply have a schedule where you scheduled the ACC teams of the deep south (Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Miami, and potentially even the North Carolina teams) with several of the other SEC teams like South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Mississippi and so on.

Some of the northern ACC teams, like Boston College, Louisville, Syracuse, Virginia and Virginia Tech, could play games with teams like Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Vanderbilt and maybe even Arkansas (though that is getting further out). You could even throw Notre Dame into that mix.

The overarching goal is to cut down on travel and that could be accomplished with the two conferences agreeing to play games with one another in a way that makes sense geographically.