HD's Spring PR

Four of the top five are in our division, and we play the other one. Great.
 
beej67 said:
Four of the top five are in our division, and we play the other one. Great.
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Hah, yeah that is pretty bad. I'd almost say we have the hardest schedule in the ACC next year. The only thing that stops me is the fact that VT plays Alabama and Miami plays Oklahoma. And unfortunately for them they both play us :biggthumpup:
 
UNDEFEATED BABY!!! Paul Johnson don't take kindly to people crapping on him and his team. HD just took a big ol' poop on us by ranking us 3rd. CPJ and his posse know they are the BEST, baby, the BEST!!!

Okay, maybe that's over-doing it but I do think we, even with the tough schedule, will win the ACC next year.
 
Va Tech will be much better than last year. IMO, UNC will be a bit of a wild card, but regardless we've got a really good shot at winning playing in the ACCCG. We have to beat Va Tech though.
 
the Steelers had one of the toughest schedules in the league and won the Super Bowl. lets emulate them.

with CFB being so much more subjective with polls and computers, playing as many good teams as possible is a good thing if we want to do great things...
 
BuzzCzar said:
the Steelers had one of the toughest schedules in the league and won the Super Bowl. lets emulate them.

with CFB being so much more subjective with polls and computers, playing as many good teams as possible is a good thing if we want to do great things...
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If the Steelers were playing in the BCS, they wouldn't have even been in the Super Bowl. In college football, the easier schedule the better, precisely because of the subjectivity. No one really looks at strength of schedule...they look at your record and what conference you're in.
 
gth816f said:
If the Steelers were playing in the BCS, they wouldn't have even been in the Super Bowl. In college football, the easier schedule the better, precisely because of the subjectivity. No one really looks at strength of schedule...they look at your record and what conference you're in.
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Bingo!
 
gth816f said:
If the Steelers were playing in the BCS, they wouldn't have even been in the Super Bowl. In college football, the easier schedule the better, precisely because of the subjectivity. No one really looks at strength of schedule...they look at your record and what conference you're in.
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Whatever, the Big East is the easiest route to the BCS championship game.
 
gth816f said:
If the Steelers were playing in the BCS, they wouldn't have even been in the Super Bowl. In college football, the easier schedule the better, precisely because of the subjectivity. No one really looks at strength of schedule...they look at your record and what conference you're in.
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yeah, like when an undefeated team didnt make it b/c they didnt have enough quality wins?

your comments are true about being ranked high, but if you want to be in the title game, you have to play some games

see LSU, see Utah, see Oregon ... example abound. if there are only 2 teams with equal losses, your plan works, if you want to be guaranteed to be in the final game, then you have to be in a conference AND have to have some quality wins
 
BuzzCzar said:
yeah, like when an undefeated team didnt make it b/c they didnt have enough quality wins?

your comments are true about being ranked high, but if you want to be in the title game, you have to play some games

see LSU, see Utah, see Oregon ... example abound. if there are only 2 teams with equal losses, your plan works, if you want to be guaranteed to be in the final game, then you have to be in a conference AND have to have some quality wins
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When did LSU not go to the title game because of lack of quality wins? Utah didn't go because they don't play in a BCS conference. Don't fool yourself, they didn't have many great wins but they would have been in the title game if they played in a BCS conference.

Oregon was ranked #2 by both polls and would have been in the title game, but the computers ranked them lower...the BCS formula has since changed and you will never see that again. If that could happen nowadays, you would have seen Texas in the title game instead of Florida. Instead, Texas and its quality wins got to go play Ohio State while Florida and their SEC affiliation went to the title game.

All you have to do to go to the title game now is play in a BCS conference and win all of your games. Barring that, you'd better play in the SEC or Big X.
 
gth816f said:
All you have to do to go to the title game now is play in a BCS conference and win all of your games. Barring that, you'd better play in the SEC or Big X.
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Wow, that was the most succinct summation of why the BCS is borked I've ever read. :ugh:
 
If all of the ACC teams were bad and we went undefeated with OOC against a D1-AA, Georgia, and any other random team, we'd be in the title game. Therefore the tougher the rest of the ACC is, the more it hurts us in a sense.
 
Rodzilla said:
If all of the ACC teams were bad and we went undefeated with OOC against a D1-AA, Georgia, and any other random team, we'd be in the title game. Therefore the tougher the rest of the ACC is, the more it hurts us in a sense.
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And also hence why making a ridiculously hard schedule is a bad idea.
 
Wreck02 said:
A purely cupcake schedule doesn't prepare you for adversity very well, though.

You need balance.
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Yes, but I said a ridiculously hard schedule is absurd. We have balance and plenty of it. The ACC boasts a healthy difficult schedule. Add in UGA. Add in one or more SEC teams just about every year OR a Notre Dame.

In today's game to the MNC we are sitting just fine and in fact if you look at Ohio State, it suggests that we play too difficult a schedule annually. Don't add anything.
 
JWE37 said:
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/acc/0-3-673/Pre-spring-ACC-power-rankings.html
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Talk about your regurgitation of mundane information. There are forty members of this board that could have written a more interesting article. Where is the insight? Where is the news? Oh well, the doldrums of the off season get to us all. I thought it was a well known fact that we had all eleven back on offense. She said we lost two senior starters--Gardner and ?????
The ACC always seems tougher when being described in the preseason. Are the Big Three of VPI, FSU, and Miami coming back to reign supreme?
 
-If you go undefeated and are in a BCS conference, you will go to the MNC game ~95% of the time (sorry Auburn).
-If you have 1 loss and were preseason Top 5, you will go to the MNC ~80% of the time (sorry USC).
-If you have 1 loss and were NOT preseason Top 5, then you better have played a tough schedule to have any chance at all (Texas played a tough schedule and still didn't make it).
-If you are a non BCS school, you have to go undefeated, beat 2 Top 15 teams, and hope that there are not (2) 1 loss teams from BCS conferences that were preseason Top 5.

Bottom line is that the schedule strength really only matters if you have 1 loss. If GT goes undefeated or has 2 losses then it really doesn't matter. If we were preseason Top 5, I would hope to have an easy schedule. Since we are going to be preseason Top 10-20, then I think a hard schedule is the only way we have a chance if we only have 1 loss.
WE NEED A PLAYOFF!
 
1. Virginia Tech -- The ACC and Orange Bowl champs return 16 starters, and there are high expectations for an offensive backfield that will contain shifty quarterback Tyrod Taylor, and tailbacks Darren Evans and Ryan Williams. If the defense maintains its tradition without Victor "Macho" Harris, the Hokies could be a top 10 team.
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Is it just me or is there a typo in the description of VTs QB?
 
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