Why are people blaming the ACC for the early bye week? Isn't that on SU? Did they tell us to keep the 2nd weekend open just in case?
I wish we had originally had Pitt/BC alternating home away. But it sounds like the whole thing will be blown up some day anyway so I guess it doesn't really matter.
I don't think this schedule is so bad. You can't change the teams, so the order of them doesn't matter much to me. If we don't start out 3-0, that's on us. If we don't start out 4-1, that's on us (Louisville is at the Dome on a Friday night early in the season without Teddy and without Charlie Strong, do people view that as one of the tougher games?).
FSU blows us out, ok, check. But then we need to beat Wake Forest. I would hope 2013 showed us how this team can react to a blowout. So if we're not 5-2, that's on us.
Go to Death Valley, probably another tough game, although shouldn't be quite as strong a Clemson team as this year. 5-3. If we're not 6-3 after returning home to play NC State, that's on us.
Then you end with 3 complete toss ups. We could win them all, we could lose them all. Ending on the road twice sucks, but if people didn't see that coming, then I don't think they paid attention to 2013. The Superfans will be on Thanksgiving break, if that helps.
We're in a tougher league now, schedules look tougher. We'll step up to the challenge. ACC doing us no favors comments are off base. ACC did us a huge favor, they saved us from purgatory. Having to play FSU and Clemson over 3 weeks isn't a reason to start questioning them.
Agreed Chip. I give credit to the SU AD office for finally scheduling a relatively easy game to open the season with but what is up with a bye in week 2?
It would be more understandable if we had done this all those years we started off the season with a tough game, or even if week 3 featured a really tough opponent but this makes no sense and again, the failure of the AD office to intelligently schedule OOC games has greatly handicapped the football program and made it a lot more difficult to get a bowl bid.
Look at the other schools in the ACC:
Clemson opens with Georgia, played SC State in week 2, has a bye in week 3, then plays FSU in week 4.
FSU opens with Okie State, plays The Citadel in week 2, has a bye in week 3, then plays Clemson in week 4.
BC opens at UMass and plays Pitt in week 2, then plays USC, Maine and Colorado State to end September, has a bye in week 6 before getting into ACC conference play the rest of the way.
Pitt plays Delaware in week 1, then plays BC, then plays at FIU, hosts Iowa and Akron, visits Virginia and gets a bye before conference play.
No one else in the ACC has a bye in week 2 and I bet once all the schedules for 2014 are announced, no member of a P5 conference will have one except us.
Here is a list of all ACC schools and the maximum number of games they play on consecutive weeks in 2014:
BC 5
Clemson 6
Duke 5
Florida State 5
Georgia Tech 7
Louisville 8
Miami 7
North Carolina 7
North Carolina State 8 (includes 4 weak OOC opponents)
Pittsburgh 6
Syracuse
9 (all BCS opponents)
Virginia 6
Virginia Tech 6
Wake Forest 6
Not good.
