December 17, 2025 • 12 mins
The ACC announces a nine-game conference schedule that doesn’t even apply to all of its teams, creating uneven standings, future tiebreaker chaos, and more questions than answers. Gary breaks down why the league’s decision makes no logical sense, how Notre Dame scheduling complicates everything, and why this move could make conference races even messier.
The discussion then shifts to Georgia Tech roster fallout as quarterback Aaron Philo enters the transfer portal, staff members follow Buster Faulkner to Florida, and the realities of portal tampering continue to expose how little enforcement actually exists.
The episode wraps with Lane Kiffin once again making headlines for all the wrong reasons — from late-night texts to beat writers to bizarre public behavior that raises the question: does Kiffin actually want to be unlikable?
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The episode wraps with Lane Kiffin once again making headlines for all the wrong reasons — from late-night texts to beat writers to bizarre public behavior that raises the question: does Kiffin actually want to be unlikable?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Does Lane Kiffn just want to be unlikable? Maybe that's
what's going on, and the ACC decided on something that
makes absolutely no sense and they're acting on it.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's football. I've been watching it for forty years. Are
you kidding me? You're listening to Winning Cures Everything? Game day, baby,
Wake up or get out. Here's your host, my confident
young man, a defirm appley, Gary Siegers. Welcome in Winning
(00:39):
Cures Everything. It's a college football podcast. I'm your host,
Gary Siegers.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You all should know that by now at Gary WCEE
on all the different socials, wherever.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You might be.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I hope that you are having a good Wednesday, because
I'm gonna put this one out on Wednesday morning and
it's the audio only version of the show. We have
moved podcast hosts now with Spreaker, and we're gonna see
how this thing goes. So far, so good. Finally after
six years, found something that I kind of liked a
(01:10):
little more than who we were with. So you know,
we're gonna try it out. We're gonna see you guys,
let me know what you think of it. It shouldn't
change anything for you guys. The RSS feed and everything
should be the exact same, So hopefully it's all good.
If you haven't already subscribed to the podcast, tell your
friends about the show, all that good stuff, and leave
a nice five star written review. We are getting closer
(01:32):
to one hundred reviews, and I would certainly appreciate that
because I'm wanting to do more audio stuff because I
have more time to do audio than I do video,
and as we move into the off season, there's gonna
be a lot more stuff to talk about. The news
cycle in college football is just bananas. Only going to
hit on a couple of topics today, so let's go
ahead and get into that. We'll save the Kivin stuff
(01:54):
for later. But the first thing that came out today,
the ACC released that one they are going to change
their tiebreaker and they are going to announce it before
the twenty twenty six season. So what exactly they're going
to change it to. I have no idea, But if
they had put Miami in the ACC championship game against Virginia,
(02:17):
then we might not have had this kind of a
mess where Notre Dame got left out and James Madison got.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Right, there's all these different things that could happen because
of that. The second thing that they put out they
said that twelve teams. Remember this is a seventeen team conference.
The SEC moved to a nine game conference schedule. Once
the SEC did that, the ACC just immediately followed suit
and said, yeah, we're gonna do that too, because the
(02:48):
ACC would have been the only power conference not playing
nine conference games. And I don't feel like they put
a whole lot of foresight into it, because immediately the
media came out and said, hold up, Hoss, that ain't
gonna work. You have seventeen members, it's not equal. It
(03:09):
doesn't work. So the ACC came out today and said
that they will have twelve teams that will play nine
ACC games next year, and five teams are going to
play eight ACC games due to contractual obligations and scheduling balance.
So it goes through and I've got to double check this,
(03:34):
but this is the way that it's set up. Cal Duke, Louisville, Miami,
NC State, Pitt SMU, Stanford, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake
Forest are all going to play nine games. The teams
with an eight game ACC schedule include Boston College, Clemson,
(03:55):
Florida State, Georgia Tech, and North Carolina. Now my initial
thought was, okay, well, these have to be the teams
that are scheduled to play Notre Dame. What they are
trying to do is make sure that everybody is playing
ten powerful opponents next year. That is their goal. So
(04:19):
even if you've only got eight conference games, you still
have to come up with.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Two more P four games.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Now that could be Notre Dame, that could be your
in state opponent, like Georgia Tech place Georgia every year,
Clemson place South Carolina every year. You know all that
kind of stuff, right, Why would you implement a scheduling
change that does not work with your current schedule. I
don't know exactly how that makes sense or why the
(04:50):
ACC would agree to it, but that is exactly what
has happened with the ACC, and I don't know how
they're going to do this going forward. Is it every
year you're gonna have one or three teams or whatever
the math is, that are not able to do nine games?
(05:14):
Is it that you're only gonna have eight ACC games
per season for whoever has to play Notre Dame. I
need to know how this is gonna work because it
does not make.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Any kind of sense.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Why would you have a conference schedule that doesn't give
everybody the equal number of conference games and your tiebreaker
is going to have to be.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
More so than just like because.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
If you've got somebody that goes seven to one and
then you've got somebody else that goes eight and one,
well obviously the seven and one is gonna or the
eight and one is going to be better. But you're
not looking at strength to schedule. You're not looking at
it's Everything is a disaster when you do that. So
(06:03):
moving to nine games didn't exactly make a lot of sense,
and it really didn't make a lot of sense for
the SEC when you really think about it. But regardless,
it is what it is. Everybody wants bigger matchups, better games,
and all you're doing is giving more losses to half
of your conference. So if you didn't have to do it,
(06:24):
I don't know why you would. But either way, in
moving to a ninth conference game, my thought process was
that the SEC was always going to get what they wanted,
which was a sixteen team.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
College football playoff.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
But we'll figure that out in late January somewhere around there.
Staying in the ACC Georgia Tech's backup quarterback Aaron Filo
has entered the transfer portal. Brent Key came out and
talked about it a little bit, and he basically said,
and I don't know if he's going to play in
the ball game. I don't know what his status is
(07:03):
going to be. And from all indications, he might be
one of those players that is heading to Florida with
Buster Faulkner, who is their new offensive coordinator. He's leaving
Georgia Tech and head it over there. And from what
I gathered, there are multiple staffers that are also joining
him at Florida. So we're going to see what Georgia
Tech looks like next year with I don't think Haines
(07:25):
King has any eligibility left, but we'll see. So who knows.
But DJ Lagway gone. That's one thing that we will
have to discuss at some point. Again, the transfer portal
is not open January tewod is the date that you
can put your name in the portal or that schools
can start contacting you. And yet we all know what's
(07:46):
going on, like we all know that these things are
getting done well before the scheduled date. And you know
it is what it is like. There are no tampering rules. Really,
there's nothing like that that's really going to dissuade anybody
from stopping doing this. And if you don't do it,
you're gonna be behind the eight ball. So you got
(08:08):
to get in with somebody. You got to talk to
somebody and make sure that you are good to go.
Let's talk Lane Kiffen for just a minute. Like I said,
this is gonna be a shorter podcast today. But Spirit
Ben on Twitter, Ben, that's over at the old miss Spirit.
He's the one that that effectively said that Lane Kiffen
(08:32):
was a hoe. And what he did not specifically call
Lane Kiffin a hoe, he said that Lane Kiffen was
very similar to the Ludicrous song you can't turn a
hoe into a housewife.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I get it. I understand what he was going for there.
But Kiffen.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Like got in his face after the Mississippi State game
and then proceeded to text him a picture of him
in LSU gear and it was a cartoon picture of
him wearing a hoe hat in LSU colors. And then
(09:20):
on top of that, now because of Trinidad Chambliss coming
out yesterday and saying effectively like I don't know what
my future is gonna be. I'm not committing here. We're
gonna wait until the season's over and then I'll make
a decision. Lane Keiffn text had been at four to
sixteen am and asked him if he thought that trend
(09:46):
was a hoe for answering the question basically the same
way that he did. I why would you continue to
be worried about something that a recruiting or beat writer
(10:08):
put out on the internet. I just don't understand. You
have already left and gone to.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
LSU. I mean he was just in.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
He was in Oxford what over the weekend I think
it was, And I'm sure that you're still having to
move things and all this kind of stuff. I'm sure
you're still doing all that. But he went to yoga
and was spotted around town doing his thing. Why on
earth you would ever want to put yourself in that position?
(10:42):
I have no idea but to text somebody, how crazy
is that the Lane Kiffin is up at four sixteen
in the morning on like a random Tuesday. I mean,
what are we doing? Like I understand wanting to get
to the football facility and all that kind of stuff,
but like gracious, I don't understand it. I don't get
(11:04):
it alas maybe I never will. All right, we're gonna
talk more later on as the season progresses, as the
playoff progresses. We have got college football playoff games this weekend,
and I am excited about it. Hopefully you are as well.
You can get all of the stat sheets and whatnot
over at Buy Me a Coffee dot com slash Winning Cures,
and of course you want to see breakdowns on all
(11:26):
the different games, all that kind of stuff, you can
do that over on the YouTube channel. Now, I'm gonna
have all of the long form stuff right here, but
there will be clips and whatnot on the YouTube channel,
YouTube dot com Slash Winning Cures everything. Go ahead and
check it out over there. But that said, we're gonna
go ahead and get out of here. I really appreciate
you guys for listening. Subscribe to the show, like I said,
(11:48):
leave a nice five star review, and tell your friends
about the show. Share it out all that good stuff,
so it should be a good good time. With that said,
take care of yourself, take care of each other. I'd
bless college football and hopefully all of your tickets cash
this week Thanks for listening to Winning Cures Everything, Subscribe,
leave a review or comment, Follow at Gary WCE on
(12:12):
X and check out the web store
Does Lane Kiffn just want to be unlikable? Maybe that's
what's going on, and the ACC decided on something that
makes absolutely no sense and they're acting on it.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's football. I've been watching it for forty years. Are
you kidding me? You're listening to Winning Cures Everything? Game day, baby,
Wake up or get out. Here's your host, my confident
young man, a defirm appley, Gary Siegers. Welcome in Winning
(00:39):
Cures Everything. It's a college football podcast. I'm your host,
Gary Siegers.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You all should know that by now at Gary WCEE
on all the different socials, wherever.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You might be.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I hope that you are having a good Wednesday, because
I'm gonna put this one out on Wednesday morning and
it's the audio only version of the show. We have
moved podcast hosts now with Spreaker, and we're gonna see
how this thing goes. So far, so good. Finally after
six years, found something that I kind of liked a
(01:10):
little more than who we were with. So you know,
we're gonna try it out. We're gonna see you guys,
let me know what you think of it. It shouldn't
change anything for you guys. The RSS feed and everything
should be the exact same, So hopefully it's all good.
If you haven't already subscribed to the podcast, tell your
friends about the show, all that good stuff, and leave
a nice five star written review. We are getting closer
(01:32):
to one hundred reviews, and I would certainly appreciate that
because I'm wanting to do more audio stuff because I
have more time to do audio than I do video,
and as we move into the off season, there's gonna
be a lot more stuff to talk about. The news
cycle in college football is just bananas. Only going to
hit on a couple of topics today, so let's go
ahead and get into that. We'll save the Kivin stuff
(01:54):
for later. But the first thing that came out today,
the ACC released that one they are going to change
their tiebreaker and they are going to announce it before
the twenty twenty six season. So what exactly they're going
to change it to. I have no idea, But if
they had put Miami in the ACC championship game against Virginia,
(02:17):
then we might not have had this kind of a
mess where Notre Dame got left out and James Madison got.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Right, there's all these different things that could happen because
of that. The second thing that they put out they
said that twelve teams. Remember this is a seventeen team conference.
The SEC moved to a nine game conference schedule. Once
the SEC did that, the ACC just immediately followed suit
and said, yeah, we're gonna do that too, because the
(02:48):
ACC would have been the only power conference not playing
nine conference games. And I don't feel like they put
a whole lot of foresight into it, because immediately the
media came out and said, hold up, Hoss, that ain't
gonna work. You have seventeen members, it's not equal. It
(03:09):
doesn't work. So the ACC came out today and said
that they will have twelve teams that will play nine
ACC games next year, and five teams are going to
play eight ACC games due to contractual obligations and scheduling balance.
So it goes through and I've got to double check this,
(03:34):
but this is the way that it's set up. Cal Duke, Louisville, Miami,
NC State, Pitt SMU, Stanford, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake
Forest are all going to play nine games. The teams
with an eight game ACC schedule include Boston College, Clemson,
(03:55):
Florida State, Georgia Tech, and North Carolina. Now my initial
thought was, okay, well, these have to be the teams
that are scheduled to play Notre Dame. What they are
trying to do is make sure that everybody is playing
ten powerful opponents next year. That is their goal. So
(04:19):
even if you've only got eight conference games, you still
have to come up with.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Two more P four games.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Now that could be Notre Dame, that could be your
in state opponent, like Georgia Tech place Georgia every year,
Clemson place South Carolina every year. You know all that
kind of stuff, right, Why would you implement a scheduling
change that does not work with your current schedule. I
don't know exactly how that makes sense or why the
(04:50):
ACC would agree to it, but that is exactly what
has happened with the ACC, and I don't know how
they're going to do this going forward. Is it every
year you're gonna have one or three teams or whatever
the math is, that are not able to do nine games?
(05:14):
Is it that you're only gonna have eight ACC games
per season for whoever has to play Notre Dame. I
need to know how this is gonna work because it
does not make.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Any kind of sense.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Why would you have a conference schedule that doesn't give
everybody the equal number of conference games and your tiebreaker
is going to have to be.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
More so than just like because.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
If you've got somebody that goes seven to one and
then you've got somebody else that goes eight and one,
well obviously the seven and one is gonna or the
eight and one is going to be better. But you're
not looking at strength to schedule. You're not looking at
it's Everything is a disaster when you do that. So
(06:03):
moving to nine games didn't exactly make a lot of sense,
and it really didn't make a lot of sense for
the SEC when you really think about it. But regardless,
it is what it is. Everybody wants bigger matchups, better games,
and all you're doing is giving more losses to half
of your conference. So if you didn't have to do it,
(06:24):
I don't know why you would. But either way, in
moving to a ninth conference game, my thought process was
that the SEC was always going to get what they wanted,
which was a sixteen team.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
College football playoff.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
But we'll figure that out in late January somewhere around there.
Staying in the ACC Georgia Tech's backup quarterback Aaron Filo
has entered the transfer portal. Brent Key came out and
talked about it a little bit, and he basically said,
and I don't know if he's going to play in
the ball game. I don't know what his status is
(07:03):
going to be. And from all indications, he might be
one of those players that is heading to Florida with
Buster Faulkner, who is their new offensive coordinator. He's leaving
Georgia Tech and head it over there. And from what
I gathered, there are multiple staffers that are also joining
him at Florida. So we're going to see what Georgia
Tech looks like next year with I don't think Haines
(07:25):
King has any eligibility left, but we'll see. So who knows.
But DJ Lagway gone. That's one thing that we will
have to discuss at some point. Again, the transfer portal
is not open January tewod is the date that you
can put your name in the portal or that schools
can start contacting you. And yet we all know what's
(07:46):
going on, like we all know that these things are
getting done well before the scheduled date. And you know
it is what it is like. There are no tampering rules. Really,
there's nothing like that that's really going to dissuade anybody
from stopping doing this. And if you don't do it,
you're gonna be behind the eight ball. So you got
(08:08):
to get in with somebody. You got to talk to
somebody and make sure that you are good to go.
Let's talk Lane Kiffen for just a minute. Like I said,
this is gonna be a shorter podcast today. But Spirit
Ben on Twitter, Ben, that's over at the old miss Spirit.
He's the one that that effectively said that Lane Kiffen
(08:32):
was a hoe. And what he did not specifically call
Lane Kiffin a hoe, he said that Lane Kiffen was
very similar to the Ludicrous song you can't turn a
hoe into a housewife.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I get it. I understand what he was going for there.
But Kiffen.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Like got in his face after the Mississippi State game
and then proceeded to text him a picture of him
in LSU gear and it was a cartoon picture of
him wearing a hoe hat in LSU colors. And then
(09:20):
on top of that, now because of Trinidad Chambliss coming
out yesterday and saying effectively like I don't know what
my future is gonna be. I'm not committing here. We're
gonna wait until the season's over and then I'll make
a decision. Lane Keiffn text had been at four to
sixteen am and asked him if he thought that trend
(09:46):
was a hoe for answering the question basically the same
way that he did. I why would you continue to
be worried about something that a recruiting or beat writer
(10:08):
put out on the internet. I just don't understand. You
have already left and gone to.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
LSU. I mean he was just in.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
He was in Oxford what over the weekend I think
it was, And I'm sure that you're still having to
move things and all this kind of stuff. I'm sure
you're still doing all that. But he went to yoga
and was spotted around town doing his thing. Why on
earth you would ever want to put yourself in that position?
(10:42):
I have no idea but to text somebody, how crazy
is that the Lane Kiffin is up at four sixteen
in the morning on like a random Tuesday. I mean,
what are we doing? Like I understand wanting to get
to the football facility and all that kind of stuff,
but like gracious, I don't understand it. I don't get
(11:04):
it alas maybe I never will. All right, we're gonna
talk more later on as the season progresses, as the
playoff progresses. We have got college football playoff games this weekend,
and I am excited about it. Hopefully you are as well.
You can get all of the stat sheets and whatnot
over at Buy Me a Coffee dot com slash Winning Cures,
and of course you want to see breakdowns on all
(11:26):
the different games, all that kind of stuff, you can
do that over on the YouTube channel. Now, I'm gonna
have all of the long form stuff right here, but
there will be clips and whatnot on the YouTube channel,
YouTube dot com Slash Winning Cures everything. Go ahead and
check it out over there. But that said, we're gonna
go ahead and get out of here. I really appreciate
you guys for listening. Subscribe to the show, like I said,
(11:48):
leave a nice five star review, and tell your friends
about the show. Share it out all that good stuff,
so it should be a good good time. With that said,
take care of yourself, take care of each other. I'd
bless college football and hopefully all of your tickets cash
this week Thanks for listening to Winning Cures Everything, Subscribe,
leave a review or comment, Follow at Gary WCE on
(12:12):
X and check out the web store
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