Schedule

This is a great opportunity for us come out of the gates running. We win a few big games early and we can start out with some real momentum. Hopefully our team is excited about the early challenge and will roll up these ACC games early and get the year started right.
 
Well, if the ACC really has come back and we will have 9 teams which will be top 40 quality year in and year out, then there's no way around having a brutal schedule for any ACC team. October is tough, but you can't piss and moan about playing decent OOC teams after you bitch about playing the Jacksonville States and Troys of the world.

Hopefully Duke and I dare say Vandy will be good breaks (relatively) for our team towards the end of the year. If we can play good and hard with few injuries in September and October, we should be set up well for UGA and hopefully the ACCCG.
 
We need to get through October with no more than 3 losses. Ideally no more than 2.
 
beej67 said:
That schedule is soooo much better for us than the 2008 one. Bye week before UGA, Duke and Wake the two weeks before that, gives us a month to work on UGA stuff and get healthy.

Clemson and Miami early after both schools had coaching transitions of one sort or another, and might not have their feet underneath them. Two back to back Thursday Night games in the Summer, though, are good because it's fracking hot. Only having 5 days rest before Clemson sucks, but it's J State, so we should be okay with that.

Add to that, two nationally televised games early in the season, after we've got a reasonably good preseason ranking, can be a good platform for ranking advancement. If we can take care of business in both games, we could be Top Tenish by late September.

FSU and VT back to back sucks, but over all, I definitely don't think it sucks more than BC and VT back to back early in 08 did.
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Sorry to break this to you but I agree with all of that.:hsugh:

VT got a huge break playing us early. BC was a wash with them replacing Ryan and us learning our O on the fly. IIRC lots of teams had easier opponents or byes before they played us.

This year our tough opponents play (on paper) reasonably solid games before they play us.

A few weeks ago I tried to determine what the 'perfect' schedule would be. IMHO, playing Clemson early with their losses on O was one thing I identified. Not only do we get that, but Clem plays a team that they may not be able to play vanilla against while we probably will be able to keep some tricks up our sleeve. In the same vein, Miami is breaking in a new OC and will not be able to play vanilla against FSU. They do get the 10 days, but it couldn't get much better.

Then we get extra time to prepare for UNC payback and with their losses on O they are a team I like to see early on the schedule.

And it would be very very difficult to design a schedule that helps the team more than this one WRT the UGA game. Two to four weeks for key players to heal. As much as I respect Wake and Duke, Wake lost a lot of talent and we play at home. Duke should be flinging it well late in the season, but they have less depth and they are not at the level of UNC, VT, FSU, etc yet.
 
So, say we pull a 'Bama and compete for a NC this season, Would we beat an FSU or Clemson twice, or BC or NCST for the title? Out of those 4, FSU would be the least wanted for Tech to see in the ACC title game in my opinion.
 
gt_white_gold said:
So, say we pull a 'Bama and compete for a NC this season, Would we beat an FSU or Clemson twice, or BC or NCST for the title? Out of those 4, FSU would be the least wanted for Tech to see in the ACC title game in my opinion.
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I agree that FSU is the one we want to see the least and it's also the most likely. NCST is the next likely, not sure what to say about us facing them though. Ideally we play a team we hadn't already played. It might not be as bad if we play FSU there after losing to them in the regular season. Given the trend in the ACC, that means we'll win...

On another note, I do find it interesting that Dinich ranks us as the second hardest scheduel in the ACC. I do agree with Miami being first though, after seeing their first 4 games.
 
It would be nice though if an early Miami game after a short week against a FCS nobody was the greatest of our problems on our schedule.
 
Also, I would say that we need to win both of them. Still need to make up for that little stretch they got on us.
 
An item to note: Wake plays Navy two weeks before they play us. So while only Miami has a week off ahead of us, Wake will have seen our O (in addition to the fact that they played twice Navy twice in 08).
 
GT1994-1999 said:
An item to note: Wake plays Navy two weeks before they play us. So while only Miami has a week off ahead of us, Wake will have seen our O (in addition to the fact that they played twice Navy twice in 08).
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They also lost one of those two and them thinking we will be like Navy will play into our hands. Yes, let them come in looking for us to play at the same speed as Navy.
 
GT1994-1999 said:
An item to note: Wake plays Navy two weeks before they play us. So while only Miami has a week off ahead of us, Wake will have seen our O (in addition to the fact that they played twice Navy twice in 08).
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CPJ seeing how they play Navy will help us more than playing Navy will help them.
 
Nice to see a more formidable lineup. Padding the schedule with patsies is a bad idea, imo. Oh, and Vandy's not a gimme. They ain't too bad and will probably be better this year and they've got a pretty competitive little ball coach in Bobby Johnson. I'd rather play them though than Samford, etc., for the easy win.
 
I am loving this schedule!!! When CPJ was hired, he said he wanted to bring championships to Tech. The righting is on the wall now, if you want to be a champion you have to be prepared mentally and physically EVERY WEEK!!! The foundation was set last season now he is about to take it to the next level. I believe the program want to have a schedule like this to show that this is a sign of things to come for the FB program. Championships!!!
 
Padding the schedule with patsies is a bad idea, imo.
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Padding the schedule with patsies other than Georgia is a great idea, because we only get to play in the championship if we go undefeated, and we go undefeated we're nigh guaranteed a spot in the championship.

Ever since they wrecked the BCS formula after Auburn was RIGHTLY held out of the NC game, the obvious way to get to the championship is to play as many patsies as possible.
 
idaman54 said:
I am loving this schedule!!! When CPJ was hired, he said he wanted to bring championships to Tech. The righting is on the wall now, if you want to be a champion you have to be prepared mentally and physically EVERY WEEK!!! The foundation was set last season now he is about to take it to the next level. I believe the program want to have a schedule like this to show that this is a sign of things to come for the FB program. Championships!!!
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How was Florida's OOC schedule last year? Unless we rate moral victories up there with Ws, I don't see the point.

The lucky fact is no team in the Coastal is likely to go 8-0 in conference. Otherwise, a seven straight game stretch we face starting Sept 26 would all but kill the season before we start. We will be into the third string at some positions after a stretch like that with no breaks. And I doubt you will be able to count the number of starters who will still be at 100% going into the Wake game on one hand.
 
beej67 said:
Padding the schedule with patsies other than Georgia is a great idea, because we only get to play in the championship if we go undefeated, and we go undefeated we're nigh guaranteed a spot in the championship.

Ever since they wrecked the BCS formula after Auburn was RIGHTLY held out of the NC game, the obvious way to get to the championship is to play as many patsies as possible.
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I think if the ACC was seen as a strong conference it would be a good idea...but the current ACC schedule is too weak to send the ACC champ to the national title. Because of that, we have to bring in a decent OoC schedule to have a shot...Vandy isn't a world beater, but it's at least a real D-1A team that won't kill our strength of schedule.
 
beej67 said:
Padding the schedule with patsies other than Georgia is a great idea, because we only get to play in the championship if we go undefeated, and we go undefeated we're nigh guaranteed a spot in the championship.

Ever since they wrecked the BCS formula after Auburn was RIGHTLY held out of the NC game, the obvious way to get to the championship is to play as many patsies as possible.
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This is sad, but true. If an undefeated Big 10 team can make the championship game, then an undefeated ACC team can certainly do that too. 1 loss and we're out of the national championship, or at least behind the SEC, Big 12 and USC teams if they've got 1 loss.
 
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