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-jk
I haven't posted my "Premier League" plan recently, so here goes!
Split the ACC into two divisions, Upper and Lower. Each team plays a double round robin within division (10 games) and single games across division (six games), and maybe an extra game or two across divisions (call it the Duke-UNC rule).
Leads to killer SOS in the Upper division, and lots of great TV match-ups, and the chance for a Lower division team to really stand out.
At the end of the season, the top four teams in the Upper division stay Upper and the bottom four teams in Lower stay Lower. The bottom two teams in Upper swap divisions with the top two teams in Lower.
The middle of the pack battles in both divisions would go down to the the end of the season. No one near the bottom of Lower would coast down the stretch if they had a chance to move to Upper, and the middle of the Upper would fight dropping down. Almost every game would matter in the last week of regular season; it wouldn't just be a few key match ups.
Tourney seeding could be worked out. Lord knows it couldn't be worse than the five days of the Big East.
-jk