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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3459609, member: 27"] No one has 3 or 4 easy OOC victories to pad their records with any longer. When you have programs like Clemson and ND rolling up great records, someone has be on the losing ends of those games. A lot of ACC schools ended up with a significantly tougher schedule. This is going to hurt their chances to qualify for bowl games. Let's assume Clemson and ND roll the table in the regular season, with the exception being Clemson beating ND in their head to head game. If you want to give every ACC school 3 wins, you are going to end up with standings like this: [TABLE] [TR] [TD]Team[/TD] [TD]Conf W[/TD] [TD]Conf L[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Clemson[/TD] [TD][RIGHT]10[/RIGHT][/TD] [TD][RIGHT]0[/RIGHT][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Notre Dame[/TD] [TD][RIGHT]9[/RIGHT][/TD] [TD][RIGHT]1[/RIGHT][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]North Carolina[/TD] [TD][RIGHT]6[/RIGHT][/TD] [TD][RIGHT]4[/RIGHT][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Pittsburgh[/TD] [TD][RIGHT]6[/RIGHT][/TD] [TD][RIGHT]4[/RIGHT][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Louisville[/TD] [TD][RIGHT]5[/RIGHT][/TD] [TD][RIGHT]5[/RIGHT][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Wake Forest[/TD] [TD][RIGHT]5[/RIGHT][/TD] [TD][RIGHT]5[/RIGHT][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Virginia Tech[/TD] [TD][RIGHT]5[/RIGHT][/TD] [TD][RIGHT]5[/RIGHT][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Virginia[/TD] [TD][RIGHT]5[/RIGHT][/TD] [TD][RIGHT]5[/RIGHT][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Miami[/TD] [TD][RIGHT]5[/RIGHT][/TD] [TD][RIGHT]5[/RIGHT][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Syracuse[/TD] [TD][RIGHT]4[/RIGHT][/TD] [TD][RIGHT]6[/RIGHT][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Florida State[/TD] [TD][RIGHT]3[/RIGHT][/TD] [TD][RIGHT]7[/RIGHT][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Duke[/TD] [TD][RIGHT]3[/RIGHT][/TD] [TD][RIGHT]7[/RIGHT][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Georgia Tech[/TD] [TD][RIGHT]3[/RIGHT][/TD] [TD][RIGHT]7[/RIGHT][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]NC State[/TD] [TD][RIGHT]3[/RIGHT][/TD] [TD][RIGHT]7[/RIGHT][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Boston College[/TD] [TD][RIGHT]3[/RIGHT][/TD] [TD][RIGHT]7[/RIGHT][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] A 1-9 record in conference play this year, let's say 2-9 with an easy OOC win, is roughly equivalent to going 1-7 in conference play and 3-1 OOC in a normal season. 4-8. Odds are good someone is going to go 0-10 or 1-9 in conference play. Probably a couple of teams. This is almost like playing in the old Big East in basketball. Very tough to finish with a 500 record with ND all in, 2 more conference games added and only one OOC game to work with. [/QUOTE]

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