RE: Ranking the ACC's Out of Conference schedules.
How come no one ranks the actual conference schedule? Is it to avoid showing the advantage that most coastal teams have?
Using the ACC writers rankings I noticed that NC State is picked 4th in the Atlantic and with enough votes to be 6th overall, yet NC State will play the ACC's 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, and 14 - namely Clemson, FSU, VT, Louisville, UNC, BC, Syracuse and Wake.
Chris I notice that VT is picked 2nd in the Coastal and with enough votes to be 4th overall, yet you will play only one ACC team with more votes - GT. You get 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 13 - GT, NC State, Miami, Duke, UNC, Pitt, BC, Syracuse, and UVa.
I applaud you series with Ohio State. We had one with them about a decade ago. I guess when you don't have to play Clemson and FSU every year you can be bolder with OOC schedule. Had Oklahoma State not canceled on us for last year and this year, then at the same time the ACC signal that we didn't need to replace the game due to moving to a 9 game conference slate, State would have a game with Oklahoma State and I guess the rest of the conference would be satisfied with us playing 5 programs with markedly more talent.
WF, BC, Syracuse, NC State, and Louisville have to play the two best programs in the conference every year. Louisville's permanent cross over is UVa, Wake Forest's is Duke, Syracuse's in Pitt, ours is UNC.
Since we are rebuilding after TOB ran the program into the ground why do we need another game like the one we had with Tennessee in 2012? We got nothing out of that. As for last year, when we scheduled USF they were a top 20 team and we played them a number of years ago as such. How could we know that they would go in the toilet by 2014?
(This post was last modified: 07-26-2015 12:55 AM by lumberpack4.)
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Ranking the ACC's Out of Conference schedules.
