Schedule is slightly easier as WF drops #3 ND and at Tulane for the last place in the Coastal -- UNC and Utah State (both working in new coaches; even so, Utah State has a star in QB Jordan Love), but neither game will be easy. While WF drops the 1st place team in the Coastal (Pitt) for VT, VT should be improved next year as the Hokies also suffered a ton of injuries and were very young in 2018.
Assuming improvement from the returning players and better health, 7 or 8 regular season wins is doable. Can't wait for the season to start!
Utah State looked tough on the schedule after last year's solid season and their dominating bowl win. After looking at the depth chart though, they lose their entire starting offensive line to graduation. That should make Love consider something other than staying. He also loses two of the 3 starting WR's. The defense loses 5 starters and they are transitioning a coaching staff so may be unsettled in general along with traveling to Wake.
UNC I am concerned about with 19 of their starters returning. I watched a few of their games and they have a solid offense with some real play makers and great return men. They have what look like very good hires at the OC and DC positions. Their defense has been awful and it will be interesting to see how Bateman translates from disciplined hard nosed Army kids to not so disciplined UNC kids. In our favor is that they open up with South Carolina in Charlotte and based upon all of their out of conference games on the schedule, will have an ACC opponent in their second game before they play us. Clemson is on their schedule and it would be oh so nice to have them play Clemson before they play us. Duke and UNC will likely be at the end of the season so the alternatives are they go to Pitt, Va Tech, or Ga. Tech or play Miami or UVa at home. They will have a much tougher go to start than us with Utah State and Rice.