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[QUOTE="Consigliere, post: 1056884, member: 559"]
I've read in several places reference to this years schedule being markedly tougher than last year and frankly am not sure I agree, particularly when you look at last year's results and likelihood to flip losses into wins and vice versa. Let's look at it in components:

OOC - Wagner - Villanova - push
            Tulane - @CMU - push 
            Penn State - Notre Dame - push though ND might be a bit more highly regarded we can only lose  
                       this game once - same as last year.
            @ Northwestern - Maryland - on paper easier since last years result was the NW loss.

Summary - 2013 record was 2 - 2. Would be a disaster to do worse this year and the likelihood is we have a good shot to win at least 3.

Common conference foes: FSU, Clemson, NC State, BC, Pitt, Wake. Key thing here is that 2 home wins are road games next year and the only road loss that becomes a home game is FSU. Not a big upside to improve on the 3- 3 performance from last year. We would likely have to sweep roadies against BC, Pitt and Wake and hold serve with NCSU. Certainly achievable but challenging.

New conference matchups: Two road games replaced by two home games - @Georgia Tech and @ Maryland - Duke and Louisville. I guess on paper this is a bit tougher (Duke in the Dome > @ Maryland) and we could potentially lose both but that would be a major disappointment and I'm going to hold to no worse that a split.

So I'm in the boat with Coach Shafe's goal of 8 wins and see the Maryland game as a critical bellwether.

Thoughts?
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