ACC plays which other conference the most?

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Well it's pretty darn even & pretty wide spread. There's a 3 conference tie that the ACC plays the most games against. The ACC has 7 gms versus the Big East, Conference USA & the Mid-America. Yep, that's correct, the MAC. Our Conference has 6 gms apiece with the SEC & Sun-Belt. There's 3 gms against Independents, 2 Notre Dame & 1 Navy. 2 gms vs Mountain West & 1 Western Athletic.
The ACC plays Div 1aa teams 9 times, with 9 teams having 1 home gm with an aa team. The 3 teams that don't play a div 1aa gm are Clemson, Florida St & Virginia.
The ACC plays no single team more than twice & there's 6 of those teams the conference really likes. There's 2 gms each vs Notre Dame, Southern Mississippi, East Carolina, Troy, Florida International & Western Michigan.

Big East---7gms
ConUSA---7gms
Mid Am----7gm
SEC-------6gms
SunBelt---6gms
Indies----3gms
MtnWest--2gms
WestAth--1gm
Div 1aa---9gms

Here's the complete ACC schedule;

http://stats.ajc.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=ajc&page=cfoot/conf/acc/confsched.aspx?season=2006,sc=AF,conf=Atlantic%20Coast
 
Should be the SEC by a land slide.

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FHstinger said:
Should be the SEC by a land slide.
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That's not in our control - the SEC schools are such chicken schedulers they could never be that big a part of the ACC's non-conference schedule.

Take a look at their non-conference schedules this year (pathetic):

Florida
Sept. 2 Southern Miss
Sept. 9 UCF
Nov. 18 Western Carolina
Nov. 25 at Florida State

Georgia
Sept. 2 Western Kentucky
Sept. 16 UAB
Sept. 23 Colorado
Nov. 25 Georgia Tech

Kentucky
Sept. 2 at Louisville
Sept. 9 Texas State
Sept. 30 Central Michigan
Nov. 18 UL Monroe

South Carolina
Sept. 16 Wofford
Sept. 23 Florida Atlantic
Nov. 18 MTSU
Nov. 25 at Clemson

Tennessee
Sept. 2 California
Sept. 9 Air Force
Sept. 23 Marshall
Sept. 30 at Memphis

Vanderbilt
Sept. 2 at Michigan
Sept. 23 Tennessee State
Sept. 30 Kent State
Oct. 28 at Duke

Alabama
Sept. 2 Hawaii
Sept. 16 UL Monroe
Oct. 7 Duke
Oct. 28 FIU

Arkansas
Sept. 2 USC
Sept. 9 Utah State
Oct. 14 SE Missouri State
Oct. 28 UL Monroe (at Little Rock)

Auburn
Sept. 2 Washington State
Sept. 23 Buffalo
Oct. 21 Tulane
Nov. 4 Arkansas State

LSU
Sept. 2 UL Lafayette
Sept. 9 Arizona
Sept. 23 Tulane
Oct. 21 Fresno State

Ole Miss
Sept. 2 Memphis
Sept. 9 at Missouri
Sept. 23 Wake Forest
Nov. 4 Northwestern State

Mississippi State
Sept. 16 Tulane
Sept. 23 at UAB
Oct. 7 West Virginia
Oct. 14 Jacksonville State

I count 12 legit non-conference opponents, 3 of which are mandated in-state rivalries.
 
I know we've given UGAy crap about their scheduling but they have a respectable OOC schedule this year, possibly the toughest in the SEC.
 
Gotta agree with CB here. Far be if for me to stick up for the mutts or anything, but while Colorado is down right now they were most definitely up when this was scheduled, combine that with us and a respectable if low teir UAB.

Tennessee isn't too bad either. Auburn and Bama are pretty weak though.

I'd be pretty happy with UF/Tenn/Mutts scheduling, nothing to be ashamed of there compared to the way things used to be, two respectable and 2 acceptables is going to be the way we all schedule from here on out.
 
Colorado and Southern Miss I counted in my "legit" total.

Keep in mind that the SEC weenies will not be making return trips to these opponents' fields either - that's another aspect that makes their schedules easier, very few non-conference road games.
 
So now we know the sec is loading up on Duke and Wake to offset possible losses to CU, FSU & GT. If this happens, how long b4 the sec is bragging about going .500 or better against the ACC?
 
Georgia's schedule is tough but they get both the real and fake '90 national champs at home, and should be favored in both games.

I like Tennessee's schedule. Depending on how good their non-BCS opponents are and how good Tech and Colorado are, UT could still have the toughest overall non-conference schedule in the SEC.

California will probably have a great team this year, Air Force and Marshall were both poor last year but are traditionally two of the best non-BCS programs, and playing at Memphis is definitely not a cakewalk by any stretch.

If you discount mandated rivalry games then Tennessee scheduled the toughest of any team in the SEC, and they traditionally have done so. If they played a patsy rather than ND last year they'd have been bowl eligible and probably their disastrous season would have been 7-5 rather than 5-6.
 
mm42 said:
Colorado and Southern Miss I counted in my "legit" total.

Keep in mind that the SEC weenies will not be making return trips to these opponents' fields either - that's another aspect that makes their schedules easier, very few non-conference road games.
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Wow, long time no see, MM!

Calling them "weenies" doesn't change the fact that the six biggest SEC programs don't give return games to non-BCS opponents because they simply don't have to.

We wouldn't be playing at UConn or MTSU either if we didn't have to play there to get them to come to Atlanta twice each. What would be our financial or other interest in doing so?
 
GoldenTornado said:
Wow, long time no see, MM!
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Likewise!

Calling them "weenies" doesn't change the fact that the six biggest SEC programs don't give return games to non-BCS opponents because they simply don't have to.
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Finances and schedule difficulty are two separate issues. Would we be just as greedy as SEC schools if we could? I don't doubt it. Certainly, it would make our schedules easier if we were.

I think this financial bullying is bad for college football. I would propose an NCAA rule that all games must be scheduled one-for-one home-and-away. I suspect SEC schools (and ACC schools) would drastically reduce their affinity for 3rd-tier opponents in this context.
 
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