The ACC and SEC should also adopt rivalry pods for basketball.
In the ACC, the 18 teams would be divided into pods as follows:
Deep South: Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Miami
Northeast: Boston College, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech
Tobacco Road: Duke, North Carolina, NC State, Wake Forest
West: California, Louisville, Notre Dame, SMU, Stanford
Teams in the five-team pods always play each other twice a year, plus the 13 other schools once for 21 conference games.
Teams in the four-team pods will play at least twice a year, with Clemson-Georgia Tech and Florida State-Miami always playing thrice a year, and the Tobacco Road pod will rotate which match-ups get a third playing each year. Teams in these pods would play the other 14 ACC schools once a year to make up their 21-game conference schedule, the second-most conference games in D1 behind only the Big Ten with 22.
The SEC's pods would be these:
Atlantic: Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina
East Central: Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
Plains: Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M
West Central: Arkansas, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss
As with what I am proposing for Big 12 basketball, each team plays their in-pod rivals twice (once hosted by each team) and everyone else once (6 at home, 6 on the road, alternating locations every year).
The conditions that caused the WAC's pod format (of which the ACC's SMU and the Big 12's BYU, TCU and Utah were all part) to fail 25 years ago no longer exist. So I think the pod format (used by the Big 12 in both football and basketball and by the ACC and SEC only in basketball) can succeed today.