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Aberdeen full-back Graeme Shinnie has described his first Scotland call-up as a very proud moment. The 24-year-old was selected for the national side for the first time this week by Gordon Strachan for the final European Championship qualifiers against Poland and Gibraltar.Shinnie captained Inverness Caledonian Thistle to their first ever Scottish Cup triumph last season before a summer move to Pittodrie where he has played a key part in Aberdeens fine start to the season. Graeme Shinnie captained Inverness to Scottish Cup glory last season. Its a very proud moment in my career, Shinnie told Sky Sports News HQ.It is something that Ive been looking to work on and looking to get because there has been a lot of talk about it over the last year. It has been something for me to kind of push myself to try and get and now that Ive got it I need to go down there and try implement myself in the squad.Shinnie has also described the prospect of taking on players such as Polands Robert Lewandowski as a surreal experience. Graeme Shinnie has been in fine form for Aberdeen this season The Bayern Munich striker is in a rich vein of form having scored 10 goals in three games and will be the biggest threat to the Scots at Hampden on October 8.Gordon Strachans side then travel to face Gibraltar three days later. Scotland boss Gordon Strachan has named his squad to face Poland and Gibraltar. Somebody asked me this the other day actually and it is a bit surreal for me talking about a player of his calibre, potentially playing against him, Shinnie said.I guess in football that is what youve got to do. 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The ACCs athletic directors did not reach a decision Friday concerning the leagues future conference-scheduling requirements, a source told ESPN.The ADs held a conference call Friday morning to discuss whether to remain at eight conference games but play two non-ACC Power 5 teams or go to nine league games with one non-ACC Power 5 school.ACC teams currently play eight league games. Notre Dame?is also required to play an average of five ACC teams annually.A new scheduling format is required by 2019 because the ACC Network will be launching that year. ESPNs new deal with the ACC requires the ACC to either expand the league schedule to nine games and play at least one nonconference Power 5 opponent or remain at eight ACC games and play at least two nonconference Power 5 opponents.The nine conference games plan would affect?Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech?and Louisville?the most. The four ACC schools have annual rivalries against SEC opponents (Clemson-South Carolina, FSU-Florida, Georgia Tech-Georgia and Louisville-Kentucky), meaning that in the season when they had Notre Dame on their schedule, 11 of their 12 games would already be determined, so they could only add one nonleague game.ddddddddddddThe Big 12, Pac-12 and Big Ten, starting this year, all have nine conference games. The SEC has eight league games.Last month, ESPN spoke to the ACCs coaches, and only Miamis?Mark Richt favored a nine-game league schedule, while Syracuse?coach Dino Babers said he preferred eight, but he wasnt against nine games.Because of their SEC rivalry games, Clemsons Dabo Swinney, Florida States Jimbo Fisher and Georgia Techs Paul Johnson were predictably the most vocally opposed to nine conference games.I like the [nonconference] flexibility to go play Georgia, Texas?and Notre Dame, Swinney said. Thats one of the ways we built our program. 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