Yeah, that and beating Clemson.
College football also isn't all about the playoff, and making it into that only works to the sport's detriment. It'd be nice to make it, but more important to me than gaining some small potential advantage in that pursuit is playing our rivals annually and playing everyone in our conference regularly, which is a return to what the sport historically has been about
College football also isn't all about the playoff, and making it into that only works to the sport's detriment. It'd be nice to make it, but more important to me than gaining some small potential advantage in that pursuit is playing our rivals annually and playing everyone in our conference regularly, which is a return to what the sport historically has been about
The goal is and should be to get to the CFB playoff. Anything other than that being the goal is so LOWF it hurts. It's a tough goal, but it can be done, and the playoff will be 8-12 teams soon. It is attainable in the right circumstances.
Wouldn't mind playing Clemson every year. Cuse, State and Pitt all beat Clemson in the last couple of years. An awful GT team should've beaten Clemson last year; BC has taken Clemson to the wire often in recent years. Heck, even old man Mack Brown had Clemson's National Championship team on the brink in 2019.
For whatever reason (I know some here claim it's WF style of offense), Clemson has often saved its best performances for WF in recent years (Dabo rallied the team around not having an another ACC team celebrate a division title on Clemson's homefield last year). Love WF's chances against Clemson this season, and our schedule would absolutely suck this upcoming season, if Clemson had dropped off, and WF was playing VT or UVA or some other mediocre ACC team. As in, WF's schedule would suck so bad that not sure an undefeated season would be enough for a playoff.
Even accepting your logic, if Clemson wasn't on the schedule at the beginning of the season, there's a good chance an undefeated Wake would play them in Charlotte.
Is only playing them every two years instead of every year ducking them.
say we hold on against UNC and play another game instead of clemson. good chance we are playing for a CFP birth in Charlotte.
There's no shortage of $$$$ in college football so there's no point in trying to parse out how much will go where like there's a fixed budget. There will always be enough money for big time programs to pay transfers, pay HS recruits, buyout coaches, build shiny new facilities, whatever.
There’s no way the ACC powers that be are banking on Wake-Clemson as a marquee rivalry game. No way. I think every team should get a brand new rival. Wake should get UNC and Clemson should get Miami along with GT and FSU.