{"id":1892408,"date":"2026-07-15T10:07:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892408"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:34:47","slug":"acc-alters-tiebreaking-procedure-for-its-football-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892408","title":{"rendered":"ACC alters tiebreaking procedure for its football championship game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Duke, rather than eventual College Football Playoff finalist Miami, advanced to the ACC title game, the league moved to revise how it breaks ties to better ensure the two most deserving teams reach the championship. Commissioner Jim Phillips announced the new policy Wednesday on the first day of ACC Kickoff in Charlotte. It takes effect with this season as the conference shifts to a nine\u2011game league schedule, emphasizes head\u2011to\u2011head results while also accounting for the fact that not every program will play the same number of conference games during the transition.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/07\/15\/acc-alters-tiebreaking-procedure-for-its-football-championship-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACC alters tiebreaking procedure for its football championship game<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/07\/15\/acc-alters-tiebreaking-procedure-for-its-football-championship-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Duke, rather than eventual College Football Playoff finalist Miami, advanced to the ACC title game, the league moved to revise how it breaks ties to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-1-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892409,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892408\/revisions\/1892409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}