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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 1162930, member: 27"] If history means anything (and it often does), the ACC has scheduled an ACC game to be played on Friday night of week 2 each of the past 2 seasons. BC has hosted both of these games. I believe ESPN/ABC required that the ACC host a couple of Friday night games each year with the last contract that was signed and I believe SU and BC offered to host Friday night games, so if they want a Friday night ACC game on week 2 again, it is going to be hosted by one or the other. BC and Syracuse both have that weekend open right now, so either could host. BTW, I suspect the way SU ended up the only ACC with a bye in week 2 this season was this scenario: SU really wanted to host an ACC game on Friday night of week 2 this season and expected it to happen, but lost out to BC, who also wanted it (they ended up hosting Pitt that night). SU probably thought that since BC had gotten that slot the year before, it would make sense to give it to Syracuse in 2014. When that didn't happen, it left us with a hole in the schedule we couldn't fill; a major fail on the part of the AD scheduling function. Anyway, I expect we end up playing an ACC game in week 2. I suspect w will either play at FSU last weekend or host Wake. If we host Wake, I bet it happens on Friday night. My money is on playing Wake on Friday night. It makes a lot of sense...we have no chance to have an OOC game that weekend, we desperately don't want to blow a bye week that early two years in a row and playing on a Friday night early in the season works out well for SU. The games tend to have relatively strong attendance and played at night reduces the risk for a major issue with heat playing in the Dome early in the year. If the ACC throws this bone to BC again, it is not good. Syracuse really needs a home conference game scheduled for week 2. [/QUOTE]

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