New ACC scheduling model

You people seriously think a schedule that gives us a home conference slate of BC, UNC, Syracuse and Louisville is great? This is bad. I'd say this gives us an opportunity to up our non-conference scheduling but too many of our fans are whining about playing Ole Miss.

We absolutely got shafted drawing Louisville and Wake Forest, two programs we have no real history or tradition and no real interest in those games will ever be created. Gross. Indefensible really.

I don't even recognize college football fans anymore it seems
 
Wake sucks. They’re very mid-major-y with zero brand and we have no history with them. Louisville is mostly the same.

I can understand getting one of those two, there are going to have to be compromises made in this sort of situation, but getting both of them is a total slap in the face. They clearly placed us in the ‘leftovers’ bucket and there was literally zero concern. I doubt anyone in our admin was willing to fight. We would’ve gotten Clemson/FSU/Duke if anyone in the ACC GAF about us. We need to jump ship immediately to the Big Ten or SEC if they ever call.
 
A special one-hour edition of The Huddle will air on the ACC Network on tonight at 7 pm eastern to discuss the new scheduling format. The show will be hosted by Drew Carter and feature analysis from Eric Mac Lain, EJ Manuel and Mark Richt.

The new model addresses one of the major complaints about the two-division format after the ACC expanded to 14 teams, that teams played inter-divisional opponents (besides the permanent crossover partner) twice over a 12-year span. It also takes care of another bug with that model, that the conference championship game did not always pit the teams with the two best records. In the new model the two teams with the best conference records will play for the conference title.
 
We got a traditional rivalry, who happens to be a bull in a china shop. We got the next closest conference opponent geographically. We got someone else in our weight class.

Please tell me our delusions of grandeur aren't so out of whack that we think a program like Tech sees itself being able to punch its way out of a yearly lineup of Clemson, FSU, UGA, and ND (when they're on rotation).
 
There's no good way to do scheduling in a 14.5 team conference that considers Louisville to be an academically decent school located on the Atlantic Coast. Conference expansion has been killing CFB for years and this is just a continuation of it.

Within that context, I think this is mostly fine for us. I'm glad we kept Clemson. I would have preferred Duke over Wake Forest, but lets be honest, nobody is circling either of those teams on the schedule anyway. At least they're both relatively close.

Louisville in the ACC continued to be an abomination and I can find no positives in it.
 
andrew said:
There's no good way to do scheduling in a 14.5 team conference that considers Louisville to be an academically decent school located on the Atlantic Coast. Conference expansion has been killing CFB for years and this is just a continuation of it.

Within that context, I think this is mostly fine for us. I'm glad we kept Clemson. I would have preferred Duke over Wake Forest, but lets be honest, nobody is circling either of those teams on the schedule anyway. At least they're both relatively close.

Louisville in the ACC continued to be an abomination and I can find no positives in it.
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Louisville belongs in the Big 12 with Cincinnati and WVU should be in the ACC with Regional Pitt and VPI rivalries and no one can change my mind.

When Maryland left ACC went retard because Louisville was on a basketball run. End of story.
 
andrew said:
There's no good way to do scheduling in a 14.5 team conference that considers Louisville to be an academically decent school located on the Atlantic Coast. Conference expansion has been killing CFB for years and this is just a continuation of it.

Within that context, I think this is mostly fine for us. I'm glad we kept Clemson. I would have preferred Duke over Wake Forest, but lets be honest, nobody is circling either of those teams on the schedule anyway. At least they're both relatively close.

Louisville in the ACC continued to be an abomination and I can find no positives in it.
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After Tobacco Road agreed to falacio each other, our options for old school ACC schools became very limited.
 
In years past I would have hoped FSU would have been included as one of the three permanent opponents in this type of format. However, we still get Clemson and we get to play all the other conference opponents twice in every four years, which is a big improvement to how things have been, and it could have been worse.
 
I wrote this on other boards, but it's still how I feel.

I am fine with doing away with divisions, but I still would rather have no locked in pairings. It isn't competitively balanced. For example, 10 teams avoid Clemson every other year while we get them every year. That's a competitive disadvantage.

Rotate 5 teams out of your conference schedule each year and play the remaining 8. Everyone in conference would play each team the same number of times (8) in a 13 year cycle, or a bit more (1.23 times to be exact) than once every two years.

If someone is so intent on playing a specific foe every year, they can simply schedule that game as an "out of conference" game (doesn't count in the conference standings) the 5 years in 13 the foe rotates off the conference schedule. UNC did this with Wake last year.

Oh, and as for F$U, their AD was quoted when this topic first came up as saying they did not want Tech to be one of their 3 permanents. They got what they wanted.
 
WracerX said:
Who did Louisville suck off to get GT, UVa, and Miami. Literally the best they could have done for recruiting exposure.

And our AD öööö the bed by missing on FSU.
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ööööting the bed would have been guaranteeing that we have to play Clemson, FSU, and U[sic]GA every year, before even considering our non-cupcake OOC game (which we generally schedule against decent teams.)

I tend to err on the side of scheduling interesting teams over guaranteed wins, but having both Clemson and FSU in our pod is a step too far even for me.
 
Here's what I assume GT's preference would (should?) have been:

Team #1: Clemson or FSU (though preferring Clemson)
Team #2: UNC or VT or UVA or maybe Miami
Team #3: Duke

Neither Louisville nor Wake would have been a preference for GT, so I think that's an understandable source of frustration for us. We're used to being low on the pecking order for ACC actions and I used to rail against it due to our relative performance in the league. After the last few years performances, I find it harder to summon the indignation. IIWII.
 
This is atrocious. 2 of our permanent games are with opponents that neither side cares about. Louisville is an abomination. All the historic ACC games and rivalries, even in the last 10-15 years, are now out the window. How we didn't get VPI or Duke is beyond me, much less UVA or Miami. Very odd that, being from the Coastal, we get paired with no Coastal teams.
Super amped to see us play more of BC, Syracuse, and L'ville. Won't be waiting long considering this is the '23 schedule. :puke:

Only positive is we didn't get stuck with Pitt.
 
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