Path to ACC Championship

We scraped out a win against UNC, let's hope we play cleaner against Miami. I still think we have a chance to go bowling this year, but this winning the coastal talk is silly.
 
I’ve been looking at this in detail since Pitt beat UVA this weekend and I believe I have Tech’s path nailed down to the outcome of 7 essential games. Someone please correct me if you see any issues. Here are the 7 outcomes required:

1. GT over Miami (gives Miami a minimum of 4 losses and eliminates them)
2. GT over UVA (puts us at 5-3 which will likely be the minimum record to win Coastal)
3. Clemson over Duke (gives Duke min. of 4 losses)
4. VT over Pitt (gives Pitt their 2nd loss)
5. Miami over VT (gives VT their 3rd loss and more important to be Miami than UVA - see #7)
6. Miami over Pitt (gives Pitt their 3rd loss)
7. Either (7a) WF over Pitt (giving Pitt loss #4) OR
(7b) VT over UVA (this would put GT, VT and Pitt in a 3 way tie assuming outcomes of other 6 games)

In the case that Pitt beats Wake, and we need 7b, it would go to the 3 way tiebreaker:
1. All 3 teams would be 1-1 head to head
2. GT and VT would be 4-2 in Coastal, but Pitt would be 3-3, eliminating Pitt
3. GT beats VT based on head to head
 
GTNUKE said:
I’ve been looking at this in detail since Pitt beat UVA this weekend and I believe I have Tech’s path nailed down to the outcome of 7 essential games. Someone please correct me if you see any issues. Here are the 7 outcomes required:

1. GT over Miami (gives Miami a minimum of 4 losses and eliminates them)
2. GT over UVA (puts us at 5-3 which will likely be the minimum record to win Coastal)
3. Clemson over Duke (gives Duke min. of 4 losses)
4. VT over Pitt (gives Pitt their 2nd loss)
5. Miami over VT (gives VT their 3rd loss and more important to be Miami than UVA - see #7)
6. Miami over Pitt (gives Pitt their 3rd loss)
7. Either (7a) WF over Pitt (giving Pitt loss #4) OR
(7b) VT over UVA (this would put GT, VT and Pitt in a 3 way tie assuming outcomes of other 6 games)

In the case that Pitt beats Wake, and we need 7b, it would go to the 3 way tiebreaker:
1. All 3 teams would be 1-1 head to head
2. GT and VT would be 4-2 in Coastal, but Pitt would be 3-3, eliminating Pitt
3. GT beats VT based on head to head
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I thought it would go to division record after the elimination of uva and vpi.
 
GTNUKE said:
I’ve been looking at this in detail since Pitt beat UVA this weekend and I believe I have Tech’s path nailed down to the outcome of 7 essential games. Someone please correct me if you see any issues. Here are the 7 outcomes required:

1. GT over Miami (gives Miami a minimum of 4 losses and eliminates them)
2. GT over UVA (puts us at 5-3 which will likely be the minimum record to win Coastal)
3. Clemson over Duke (gives Duke min. of 4 losses)
4. VT over Pitt (gives Pitt their 2nd loss)
5. Miami over VT (gives VT their 3rd loss and more important to be Miami than UVA - see #7)
6. Miami over Pitt (gives Pitt their 3rd loss)
7. Either (7a) WF over Pitt (giving Pitt loss #4) OR
(7b) VT over UVA (this would put GT, VT and Pitt in a 3 way tie assuming outcomes of other 6 games)

In the case that Pitt beats Wake, and we need 7b, it would go to the 3 way tiebreaker:
1. All 3 teams would be 1-1 head to head
2. GT and VT would be 4-2 in Coastal, but Pitt would be 3-3, eliminating Pitt
3. GT beats VT based on head to head
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In summary: root for GT and VT this week.
 
WF QB is now out for the season. Little hope that they beat Pitt.
 
What I find funny is all this talk about who is going to go lose to Climpsun in the ACCCG. I mean I realize we are all nerds and love solving problems like this. If X team wins here this changes the path at Y and Z still leading to endstate Alpha. I love figuring this stuff out to, but look at what we are looking at here. If we win out, we will be at 7 wins (8 if we beat the mutts, but realistically 7). Then we have a 7-5 vs 12-0. There is no auto bowl for ACCCG runner up, that I know of, and we are tied with a bunch of other teams who have bigger fan bases than us an will get chosen to the better bowls.

Tactically, I want GT to make it and win the ACC, just to look Climpsun in the eye and say, "you can have this when you pry it from my cold dead hand, have fun in the playoff (if you make it) but just know, you weren't better than school half your size" or insert your favorite Major Payne quote here:

Strategically, we want Climpsun to at least make it to the National Champ Game for 2 reasons:
1.) Money: the Playoffs are like extra money on the table if you make it there you get a piece of it. If you get 2 teams you get more. This is how I believe the SEC rose to power during the BCS, they consistantly got 2 teams into a BCS bowl more than any other conference instead of the automatic 1. That added an extra $1M or so per school over like 7-8 years. When you look at our budgets, an extra $1M would come in real handy.
2.) Noteriety: In order to beat the whole "S-E-C" thing you have to be seen as a conference that can put someone on that stage. It gets the recruits attention when you can say the ACC never not been in the playoff. Unlike the B12.
 
ramblnwrek said:
What I find funny is all this talk about who is going to go lose to Climpsun in the ACCCG. I mean I realize we are all nerds and love solving problems like this. If X team wins here this changes the path at Y and Z still leading to endstate Alpha. I love figuring this stuff out to, but look at what we are looking at here. If we win out, we will be at 7 wins (8 if we beat the mutts, but realistically 7). Then we have a 7-5 vs 12-0. There is no auto bowl for ACCCG runner up, that I know of, and we are tied with a bunch of other teams who have bigger fan bases than us an will get chosen to the better bowls.

Tactically, I want GT to make it and win the ACC, just to look Climpsun in the eye and say, "you can have this when you pry it from my cold dead hand, have fun in the playoff (if you make it) but just know, you weren't better than school half your size" or insert your favorite Major Payne quote here:

Strategically, we want Climpsun to at least make it to the National Champ Game for 2 reasons:
1.) Money: the Playoffs are like extra money on the table if you make it there you get a piece of it. If you get 2 teams you get more. This is how I believe the SEC rose to power during the BCS, they consistantly got 2 teams into a BCS bowl more than any other conference instead of the automatic 1. That added an extra $1M or so per school over like 7-8 years. When you look at our budgets, an extra $1M would come in real handy.
2.) Noteriety: In order to beat the whole "S-E-C" thing you have to be seen as a conference that can put someone on that stage. It gets the recruits attention when you can say the ACC never not been in the playoff. Unlike the B12.
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Talk about overthinking things.

Go Jackets.
 
ramblnwrek said:
What I find funny is all this talk about who is going to go lose to Climpsun in the ACCCG. I mean I realize we are all nerds and love solving problems like this. If X team wins here this changes the path at Y and Z still leading to endstate Alpha. I love figuring this stuff out to, but look at what we are looking at here. If we win out, we will be at 7 wins (8 if we beat the mutts, but realistically 7). Then we have a 7-5 vs 12-0. There is no auto bowl for ACCCG runner up, that I know of, and we are tied with a bunch of other teams who have bigger fan bases than us an will get chosen to the better bowls.

Tactically, I want GT to make it and win the ACC, just to look Climpsun in the eye and say, "you can have this when you pry it from my cold dead hand, have fun in the playoff (if you make it) but just know, you weren't better than school half your size" or insert your favorite Major Payne quote here:

Strategically, we want Climpsun to at least make it to the National Champ Game for 2 reasons:
1.) Money: the Playoffs are like extra money on the table if you make it there you get a piece of it. If you get 2 teams you get more. This is how I believe the SEC rose to power during the BCS, they consistantly got 2 teams into a BCS bowl more than any other conference instead of the automatic 1. That added an extra $1M or so per school over like 7-8 years. When you look at our budgets, an extra $1M would come in real handy.
2.) Noteriety: In order to beat the whole "S-E-C" thing you have to be seen as a conference that can put someone on that stage. It gets the recruits attention when you can say the ACC never not been in the playoff. Unlike the B12.
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Or - hear me out - GT beats UGA, Clemson, then wins a bowl game. I'm pulling for that.
 
AE 87 said:
I thought it would go to division record after the elimination of uva and vpi.
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According to the ACC webpage, once a 3 or more team tie has eliminated a team, it goes back to the beginning with just the 2 (or more) teams.

IOW, if VT and UVA were eliminated on the same tiebreaker, it would go back to head to head for GT-Pitt.
 
GTNUKE said:
According to the ACC webpage, once a 3 or more team tie has eliminated a team, it goes back to the beginning with just the 2 (or more) teams.

IOW, if VT and UVA were eliminated on the same tiebreaker, it would go back to head to head for GT-Pitt.
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We really need Pitt to loose to UVA & VT so we aren't stuck in a head to head with Pitt. Records could look like this:
GT : 2-1
VT: 1-2
UVA: 2-1
Pitt: 1-2

Then we win the head to head with UVA. If Pitt doesn't loose to UVA & VT I'm not sure we can make it.
 
gtg970g said:
We really need Pitt to loose to UVA & VT so we aren't stuck in a head to head with Pitt. Records could look like this:
GT : 2-1
VT: 1-2
UVA: 2-1
Pitt: 1-2

Then we win the head to head with UVA. If Pitt doesn't loose to UVA & VT I'm not sure we can make it.
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Pitt already beat UVA... This has been covered extensively in another thread, if you really want to get your head around it.
 
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