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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1854549, member: 289"] [I]The Schedule[/I] [I](My observations in this section are based on what I read in Lindy’s, Sports Illustrated and ESPN’s College Football previews and well as internet sources like NunesMagician and The Juice). [/I] One odd thing about last year’s team is how much better a team they were in the Dome than on the road: We opened with three straight victories in the Dome against lesser opposition, then gave a top ten team, (LSU) all they could handle in a 24-34 loss for which the score was not deceiving, at least in what it indicated about that game. We all felt we had a pretty good team. Then came the disaster at South Florida and the game at Virginia where we let a 10 point fourth quarter lead slip away and lost in 3OT to a 4-8 team. We came home and lost by a field goal to an 8-5 Pitt steam. Then we went on the road and got blown out by Florida State and Louisville before coming home to give #1 ranked Clemson as good a battle as we gave LSU, 27-37. Then we had another poor game losing to our old pals, NC State, 29-42. They are now 8-1 vs. us all time and each one felt like having a tooth removed the old fashioned way. We finally broke what had become an 8 game losing streak with a 20-17 win over Boston College in the Dome to end the season. Overall, we were 4-3 at home and out-cored our opposition 198-155, (28-22 per game). We were 0-5 on the road 129-217, (26-43). What does it mean for 2016? Who knows? It’s a new coaching regime installing new systems on each side of the ball. And in 2014 we were 1-5 in the Dome (and would have been 0-6 if the Villanova kicker hadn’t missed a chip shot) and 2-4 on the road. Go figure. I do like our road schedule this year, with games at Connecticut, Wake Forest and Boston College before we have to go to Clemson and Pittsburgh. Somehow we’ve played competitively against Clemson for two years in a row and the Pitt game is the last game of the season. Unless we have a shot at a bowl, that won’t really matter. The tone of the season will have been set long before that. Then there’s another Meadowlands game against Notre Dame. We won’t be expected to win so we won’t have anything to lose in that one. The big challenges are mostly in the Dome: Louisville and South Florida, Virginia Tech, NC State, (trying to go 9-1 against us: we’re running out of teeth to pull) and Florida State. If we can beat Colgate and win a couple more of those games, we’ll be doing well. [/QUOTE]

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