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Your conference might be in a bad spot if its best selling point is the teams it faces outside of the conference. That’s exactly what ACC commissioner Jim Phillips did when opening media days Monday in Charlotte. “ACC football has the toughest non-conference schedule in the country,” Phillips said. “Twenty-seven games against Power Four opponents, including Notre Dame. Nine non-conference games against teams ranked in the final 2023 AP top 25 poll; 10 non-conference games against teams in the ESPN 2024 Way-Too-Early top 25. All of these are the most of any conference.” It’s amusing to brag abo…

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