Athletics directors, football coaches, basketball coaches and administrators will gather for the ACC's Spring Meetings at Amelia Island the next few days to discuss a wide range of topics.

Here's a look at some topics on the agenda and a few that the Osceola staff will be watching in the coming days:

Expanded CFP, future of league title games

The meetings are an opportunity for football coaches to sit in a room and talk on topics of interest with scheduling, recruiting or rules. The American Football Coaches' Association is expected to make a presentation to the ACC coaches just a few weeks after the group advocated for an elimination of the conference championship games as well as the second bye week. AFCA officials would also like to see the season end by mid-January.

There's likely little short-term interest in cutting conference championship games, which bring in significant revenue, until there's an expanded College Football Playoff format. ACC commissioner Jim Phillips has pushed for more than 12 teams in the CFP and doesn't want to see teams in the championship games penalized for a loss.

The ACC has also pushed to make Week Zero games the start of college football season, a measure that will take effect across the FBS in 2027. Syracuse and Wake Forest will play at Toronto to kick off next season, while ACC teams have played in Ireland (FSU-GT in 2024 and UNC-TCU in 2026) and there will also be a game in Brazil in August between NC State and Virginia.

FSU isn't playing in an international game in 2026, hosting New Mexico State instead in a Week Zero game in Tallahassee. But FSU will get to open camp a week early and can use the time to prepare for the ACC opener against SMU on Labor Day. Moving forward, it's fair to expect FSU to play more Week Zero games.

ACC coaches reflect on field of 76

A year ago, the ACC basketball coaches discussed why they went from 20 league games to 18. It was designed to encourage tougher non-conference scheduling in an effort for more ACC teams to earn at-large bids into the NCAA Tournament. The ACC had just four teams in the NCAA Tournament in 2025, but that number jumped to eight in 2026.

With the men's and women's basketball tournaments expanding to 76 teams in March 2027, the door is open for more and more at-large teams. FSU coaches Luke Loucks and Brooke Wyckoff have begun to work on non-conference scheduling but they will also hear in the coming days from NCAA Senior Vice President of Basketball Dan Gavitt at Amelia Island. Executives from ESPN will also offer their input on ratings.

An expanded men’s field should help the Seminoles, who went 18-15 in Loucks’ first season. Loucks readily embraces a tough non-conference schedule, and it can be argued that’s what helped prepare the Seminoles for a rigorous ACC schedule.

FSU went 10-3 in its last 13 ACC games and with a roster full of transfers and freshmen who could have an early impact, the team will be targeting a return to the NCAA Tournament in 2027.

Five-year eligibility clocks

Coaches will no doubt be discussing and planning ahead for an NCAA vote on May 22 on "five for five" eligibility, which would allow an athlete to compete for five full seasons with no medical redshirts or four-game redshirt rules in football. The measure will not grandfather players in who have expired their eligibility in 2025-26.

But moving forward, coaches will be able to play a freshman without penalty. That could be critical in player development. When asked by the Osceola, FSU baseball coach Link Jarrett gave a detailed answer about what the rule could mean for an outfielder like Charlie Buckles (who has not played in 2026).

"If I had Charlie Buckles go up there and bat one time this season, he's used his year," Jarrett said. "So a football player can play in 33 percent of the games. In baseball you're talking is that 18, 20 games? ...

"If the five years gives you some consistency and we stop up all the nonsense, then I'm for it. Anything that provides some stability and ends the rat race of trying to figure out the rules, and have the waivers and the lawsuits, and compliance make endless attempts for players to be eligible and track documentation. I am all for it, because it's overwhelming in terms of the amount of changes and questions and interpretations and compliance and emails and surveys that we're doing right now to essentially still find ourselves with no real guardrails on what's going on."

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