I was meaning to the conference as a whole. The ACC Championship game used to be a hop, skip, and a jump for Clemson and many of the other southeastern teams. Now it’s only convenient for the Florida teams. If we do as good as last season Clemson fans now have to do an extra big trip, possibly adding to their costs with now air travel a hotel stays that may blow their budget for possible travel to the playoff games.
True enough, but a dirty secret of the bowl game racket is that the budgets nowadays include travel and hospitality expenses for large contingents of academic staff and administrators from the participating schools. For those so privileged, a bowl game is a free trip. Ordinary fans, of course, are not quite so lucky and have to pay their own way.