Bracket-liciousness

[jdubs30]

I'd love to know too. I only see 8 right now. Do the exercise...the schedule is BRUTAL

Brutal schedule = more chances for big time wins (optimism is good, right?)
Clemson, BC, ND, GaTech, VaTech, FSU are all home games we should win. That's 6
I say we either beat Pitt or NC State in the Dome. That's 7
@BC. That's 8
That means we need to go 2-5 UNC, @Wake, @Duke, @UVA, @Ville, @UNC, @FSU. We've had success vs. Ville recently. I don't think we will beat UNC but Duke is having a down year. Why couldn't we win @Wake or sweep FSU?

Schedule is tough, but we will have plenty of chances to get the wins wed to make it in.

 

[pearl31]

I look at it essentially this way.
If JB squeezed 9 ACC wins out of last year's team he can get at least that from this year's team. This season we play Fla St twice instead of Va Tech twice (NC twice this year vs Duke twice last year) - but I'd argue last year's schedule was actually tougher as it was so ridiculously back loaded (while the first 6 games last year were about as easy a start to the ACC as you can get). I'm confident we can split w/ Pitt and at least split with Fla St - as well as pick up an unexpected W or two just as we did last year.
I still believe this team will get better, especially w JB back at the helm.