The Atlantic Coast Conference will meet again in October to make a decision on whether to move to a nine-game ACC schedule or go with the 8-to-2 model, meaning ACC teams will play eight conference games and two non-conference games against Power 5 teams.

The Clemson Insider caught up with Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney on Tuesday to get his thoughts on a possible nine-game league schedule.

“I am an eight-plus-two guy. That is what I have been since I got the job. That is pretty much what we have been as a program,” Swinney said following Tuesday’s practice. “We are going to play South Carolina every year and then I love to be able to go play another Big Boy, if you will, and measure up.”

Here is what Swinney had to say about the nine-game schedule.

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“It has been one of the best parts about the last seven years and allowing us to grow our program. We have had a measuring stick and said lets just see where we are. Let’s go play some of these teams. And then we have held our own,” Swinney said. “We have won some and lost some, but we have held our own. That has helped us develop the mindset that you have to be a consistently winning program. I am on record as an eight-plus-two guy. I think it is a good format and then we have played a mid-major and a team from this state. It has been a great format for us.”

But it is a format that could be gone by 2019. ESPN is asking the league to change its current schedule structure to one of the two above proposals to combat with the cable network’s launch of the ACC Network in 2019.

“The nine-plus-one is not something that I would say the majority of us are for. We have a lot of us that have a rival game that is outside of this conference. Then you throw in Notre Dame. If you didn’t have Notre Dame then it is probably not as big of a deal. When you have Notre Dame in the occasion and you are playing ten out of twelve. You have to pay attention to what is going on around the country, too,” Swinney said. “You want to make sure that you give you conference the best chance.

“That is my individual thoughts. At the end of the day whatever they decide you aren’t going to hear anything from me. Let’s just go play.”