... that the new California teams will play roughly 1/2 their ACC schedule at home and 1/2 on the road. With any luck, they play each other every year (whether those are officially conference games or not). It would reason that the rest of the conference will make a softball trip to the West Coast at least once every other year (if they were to play both teams while they were out there (which doesn't fit into a typical Fri/Sat/Sun 3-game series). It could be that teams east of the Mississippi are out there every year... playing one or the other in some alternating fashion. What's not to love about 1 trip to Cali? Imagine Cal and Stanford though. Roughly 1/3 of their schedule with home ACC games, 1/3 as non-conf games, and 1/3 somewhere east of Chicago (South Bend being our previous westernmost ACC town). That's a lot of airline miles. All just guesswork, but how far off could it be from this? BTW, even if the PAC-xx swallows another conference, do we all agree that we're now living in the world of the Power 4?