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[QUOTE="Lou_C, post: 770862, member: 3201"] Exactly. It's pretty simple...when you lose OOC, it's a total loss to the conference. When you lose in conference, someone else in the conference wins. Now obviously, there are some that are never going to be a good loss, if Clemson lost to WF this year, that would have been deadly. But most of the time, it gives the winning team at least a little rub. What if BC had not gotten drilled by USC? If BC came into that FSU game last Saturday and upset FSU (which it looked like it would for a while) that would have been bad. But there would have been no question that BC would have rocketed into the rankings, and FSU would not have fallen out of the rankings. Terrible to lose a national title contender no doubt, but mitigated by adding another top 25 team to your conference. Same thing if Syracuse had come into Clemson 4-0. Obviously, a bigger game nationally, but it would have totally hedged the bets in the event Syracuse won, rather than a Syracuse win being an absolute disaster for the ACC. Another example...Maryland came in to this weekend actually RANKED off a horrendous OOC slate. And then FSU did what they did to the Terps, the same thing they would have done if Maryland was 2-2. But have you noticed all the juice FSU got this week? Jumped two teams in the polls that did not even lose! FSU has been all over ESPN, and the fact Maryland looked like a somewhat legit team ratcheted up the buzz for the FSU-Clemson game considerably. All because of Maryland's schedule. The ACC was in NO way punished for having a horrible OOC schedule, unless you think Maryland was going to go 12-0. Look at the Big 12 last year, which was, frankly awful. They didn't finish the season with a top 10 team. But the general public consensus last year was that the Big 12 was definitley the second best conference, and the ACC was the worst. Why? Because they came in decently ranked, didn't play a live body OOC, and everytime someone lost, it elevated the other team. WVU was terrible last year, but because nobody knew it, them beating Texas hid how bad Texas was. When Kansas State and TT beat WVU, it jump started those teams big time. It's good for the conference to have a few marquee OOC games every year to showcase (but games they can win). Then every team can play a game that would basically be a toss up or a small challenge but mean something (like SU v PSU or UNC v So Car). But every other game should be one that objective experts would consider a likely win. You can't do anything really about UVA losing to Ball St. or WF losing to ULM. Those things are going to happen. But you can absolutely do something about UVA and BC getting blasted by teams they aren't on the same level with, or SU starting ACC play with two losses. As a conference, we can do this smart, and all benefit. [/QUOTE]
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