With a new season, it’s a new era for the ACC, and it’s the ‘money-talking.’ The ACC conference is switching to an incentive-heavy model. And it started with FSU and Clemson’s piled-up lawsuits against the conference. Since a lot of ACC’s viewership was owed to them, they wanted a bigger piece of the cash pie. But why the shift? The Tigers and the Seminoles racked up the majority of the viewership for the ACC. Their demand? To dictate revenue per view. Although initially, the ACC showed resistance, it caved in. Now? The new model splits only 40% of media-rights revenue evenly, and the remaining 60% gets rolling based on the viewership metric, and the Hokies are cashing it all as well.

Virginia Tech’s Week 1 outing was a home game against South Carolina. But it neither happened at home nor

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