Football teams in the ACC will continue to play an eight-game conference schedule after athletic directors voted Wednesday to continue with the format.
The league announced the move through its Twitter account.
There's been growing sentiment that the league may make the shift to a nine-game schedule with one of the remaining three non-conference matchups set against a team from an autonomous conference but instead ADs decided to stand pat.
The ACC and SEC are the only Power 5 conferences that still play an eight game conference schedule. The Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12 all have moved to a nine-game conference with each adding the caveat that one non-conference game must be against a Power 5 foe.
The eight-versus-nine debate has been going on for some time.
Florida State's Jimbo Fisher was asked about a possible change back in August and the Seminoles coach balked at the idea.
"I hope we don't," Fisher said.
"Why doesn't every conference do this? You don't think we need a commissioner and a set of rules to make things even? We're the only sport in America that doesn't have the same rules for everybody that plays. I've never figured that out."
When it was pointed out that some conferences like the Pac-12 play a nine-game conference schedule already, Fisher responded by saying, "I'm for doing it uniformly across the board. Why can't we uniformly play the same number of games, play the same conference championships, play the same number of (teams from) Power 5s?
