Golly, the ACC has great non-conference games!

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This may be the best season for watching the ACC play meaningful national battles! Most every team has a game or 2 of major inter-League importance.

How about Va Tech punching it with Alabama, Nebraska & E. Carolina??? :wow::wow::wow:
Florida St's boxing tilts with Brigham Young, South Florida & Florida??? :eek::eek::eek:
Miami mixing it up with Oklahoma & South Fla??:eekhair::eekhair:

Here's a nice list of importance ranking::biggthumpup:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/184157-best-non-conference-games-of-the-acc-in-2009
 
there's a couple of teams that dropped the ball pretty badly on ooc games as well.

But ya there's gonna be a bunch of interesting matchups
 
Do you expect any of the ones you mentioned not to end up as ACC embarrassments?
 
Rodzilla said:
Do you expect any of the ones you mentioned not to end up as ACC embarrassments?
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I will assume that any team beaten by a Pac 10 team last year (BYU to Arizona) can be beaten by Florida St.
 
GTLiebs said:
I will assume that any team beaten by a Pac 10 team last year (BYU to Arizona) can be beaten by Florida St.
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Precisely. The ACC will be expected to win some of those games, so those are a no-win situation. The rest will be embarrassments (Vt/Bama, FSU/Florida, Miami/OU).
 
Rodzilla said:
Do you expect any of the ones you mentioned not to end up as ACC embarrassments?
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Wait, you expect Nebraska and ECU to blow out VT? Or BYU and South Florida to blow out FSU? Or Sou Fla to blow out Miami? I'll give you OU-Miami and probably AL-VT, but otherwise you're way too pessimistic.
 
ncjacket said:
Wait, you expect Nebraska and ECU to blow out VT? Or BYU and South Florida to blow out FSU? Or Sou Fla to blow out Miami? I'll give you OU-Miami and probably AL-VT, but otherwise you're way too pessimistic.
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Read my previous post, I consider those games to be no-win situations. The ACC is expected to win those games handily, so it's really a no-win imo.
 
Rodzilla said:
Read my previous post, I consider those games to be no-win situations. The ACC is expected to win those games handily, so it's really a no-win imo.
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So it's no win, so they should cancel? I don't get your point I guess. The ACC has a decent OOC schedule and they need to win some games, right? So it's no different from any other year except maybe for more chances?
 
ncjacket said:
Wait, you expect Nebraska and ECU to blow out VT? Or BYU and South Florida to blow out FSU? Or Sou Fla to blow out Miami? I'll give you OU-Miami and probably AL-VT, but otherwise you're way too pessimistic.
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I have no love for VT at all but I will be pulling for them against Bama. Hopefully they won't embarass themselves and the ACC like Clemmons did last year.:ugh:
 
ncjacket said:
So it's no win, so they should cancel? I don't get your point I guess. The ACC has a decent OOC schedule and they need to win some games, right? So it's no different from any other year except maybe for more chances?
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No, they should be a W, and a W is always better than an L. However, in the eye of public opinion, I consider them to be no-win situations. People will be saying those are games the ACC should win, hands-down, so they're practically already written off as Ws.
 
Well in terms of VT-Bama and OU-Miami, if they don't get creamed then we get a bit of respect out of it. Also there is TCU-Clemson, where the ACC might not be favored to win but could.

And lets not forget the other ACC out of conference game between two schools in the state of Georgia.
 
Rodzilla said:
No, they should be a W, and a W is always better than an L. However, in the eye of public opinion, I consider them to be no-win situations. People will be saying those are games the ACC should win, hands-down, so they're practically already written off as Ws.
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Actually with the way people look at the ACC I think most will expect the league to lose more than they win. If we're over .500 and at least hang close in the big ones I think it will really change the way the conference is looked at.
 
ncjacket said:
Actually with the way people look at the ACC I think most will expect the league to lose more than they win. If we're over .500 and at least hang close in the big ones I think it will really change the way the conference is looked at.
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Honestly as long as no one gets blown out (with the exception of OU v Miami) we'll do fine. What we need to do is have a good bowl season. Pac 10 went 5-0 last season in bowls and people believe that negates a extraordinarily bad lower half of a conference as well as no big OOC wins by anyone cept USC.
 
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