tigerswood
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I've also never heard of Childers or the "Show Pony". Sounds like something RJ would reference (or make up).
I've also never heard of Childers or the "Show Pony". Sounds like something RJ would reference (or make up).
Let's play Stanford, USC, UCLA, Cal, UW, Michigan, Northwestern, UF, all excellent schools.
Florida doesn’t play out of state non-conference road games. I think their last one was like 40 years ago. They are worse than duke in that regard.
The ACC needs to play nine conference games and eliminate the designated rival. That would allow each school to play all but one conference school every two years.
I'd prefer Wake schedule a larger variety of P5 opponents. The problem may be that schools like South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia etc. view Wake Forest much like we view playing App State or East Carolina. Nothing to be gained and plenty to lose. Maybe the alliance of the ACC, B1G and PAC will broaden the perspective and opportunities for intersectional games. Nine conference games and a game versus a PAC and/or B1G university would enlarge the Deacon footprint.
I had heard that several Power V programs wanted to play a home and home with WF, including Penn State and S. Carolina, and WF passed. FWIW, S. Carolina played at ECU this year, and they play home and homes at UNC and NC State in the coming years. WF would not have a problem finding Power V programs to play home and home against us.
The ACC needs to play nine conference games and eliminate the designated rival. That would allow each school to play all but one conference school every two years.
I'd prefer Wake schedule a larger variety of P5 opponents. The problem may be that schools like South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia etc. view Wake Forest much like we view playing App State or East Carolina. Nothing to be gained and plenty to lose. Maybe the alliance of the ACC, B1G and PAC will broaden the perspective and opportunities for intersectional games. Nine conference games and a game versus a PAC and/or B1G university would enlarge the Deacon footprint.
Feel like what’s getting lost in the discussion is that we schedule teams OOC a few years in advance, and we only schedule teams that we can predictably compete with (and they schedule us for the same reason), thus: Vandy, Army, Ol Miss, ODU, etc. I think if Clawson were able to start winning more conference games and get us to a 8-9 win level consistently then our OOC scheduling might get more competitive.
When they make the ACC schedules does no one consider things like wait a minute, Wake Forest has literally never played at Pitt. I wonder if there are any other scheduling anomalies like that.
Pitt has been in the ACC for 8 years and we have only played them once.
yeah I know, but is there some algorithm that makes it that way or has no one actually stopped and considered things like that.
The ACC schedule is on a set rotation. There are seven teams in each division, so our 8 conference games consist of 6 games against the other teams in our division, 1 game against our cross-division rival (Duke), and then 1 game against one of the other six teams in the opposite division. It therefore takes 12 years to complete a full a home-and-home with each of those other six teams, and that schedule is set well in advance. We'll complete the cycle in 2024 with a home game against GT. The road game against Pitt is 2023.
https://fbschedules.com/acc-announces-future-football-schedule-rotation-through-2024/#