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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3462239, member: 27"] This is a repost of a post I made a couple of days ago in the middle of the New Schedule (10+1) post. Thought I would do a little speculation on how the SU schedule will end up looking. We know the season will start the week of September 7th to 12th. We know there will be 2 byes. We know Syracuse has asked to not be scheduled to play a home game for the first 2 weeks of the season, to allow the dome renovation to complete. I will also speculate that when possible, the ACC will try and keep games previously scheduled on the same dates. That will help with charter plane reservations, hotel reservations, limit cascade effects of making other changes, etc. I am also going to assume we play Liberty as our OOC opponent. It sounds like that will happen if they are willing to follow the ACC COVID testing protocols. I assume given the money at stake, they will. Given all that, this is what I came up with... Saturday, September 12th Away game at ACC venue. UNC, who was supposed to play Auburn Saturday, September 19th Away game at ACC venue. ND lost Arkansas, would be a good fit Saturday, September 26th Home game vs BC. They are open and the best fit for reopening the Dome Saturday, October 3rd Away game at Louisville. Was initially home game at Syracuse Saturday, October 10th First bye week Saturday, October 17th Home game OOC against Liberty Saturday, October 24th Away game at Clemson, as originally scheduled Saturday, October 31st Home game against Georgia Tech, as originally scheduled Saturday, November 7th Home game at Wake Forest (was away game at Wake before) Saturday, November 14th Home game vs NC State (as originally scheduled) Saturday, November 21st Second bye week Saturday, November 28th Away game at Pittsburgh, as originally scheduled Saturday, December 3rd Home game vs Duke What looked likely to be a 4-0 start has become far, far more difficult. If this schedule happens, I think the goal is to survive the first 6 games and salvage a 2-4 record. The last 5 games are much more reasonable. We would do well to finish those games 4-1. Hope we can hold up injury wise and COVID wise through this tough season. I for one would be very pleased with a 6-5 record facing this schedule. I would think that the ideal schedule for any team this season would feature the easiest games early and the toughest late. Why? Because the late games are the ones most likely to not get played. You want to play Clemson and Notre Dame at the end of the season. You want the home games against BC, Wake, GT, Duke and NC State early. This is a year a decent team with a schedule where the tough games are late might back into playing in the ACC championship game with say a 6-2 record (and no games against top 25 teams). Unfortunately, we know SU asked the ACC to schedule away games early. And based on what I found trying to put together a schedule, I see a lot of late home games against beatable opponents, and a tough front loaded schedule to start things off. Anyone else have any thoughts on what the schedule will look this? Are my assumptions valid? Does this make sense? [/QUOTE]

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