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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 901144, member: 27"]
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 [B]9 [/B](all BCS opponents)
Virginia 6 
Virginia Tech 6
Wake Forest 6

Not good.
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