Noticed a few odds and ends on the conference schedule. If you've noticed any others, please share in the comments.
1. Seven ACC teams have seven home games. BC, Clemson, Louisville, Syracuse, Georgia Tech, UNC and Virginia only play away from home five times in 2015. UNC and BC in particular pulled scheduling coups, as one of their away from home games is a neutral site contest in their own state: UNC in Charlotte against USCe and BC plays Notre Dame at Fenway Park.
2. Boston College is home the entire month of September. Their first away game comes October 3 at Duke. Thanks to having seven home games, they never have more than two consecutive away games.
3. On the other end of the spectrum, Pitt opens at home September 5 and won't return to Heinz Field until October 10. In the interim they will play at Akron, at Iowa, have a bye week, and play at VT. Pitt never gets more than two back to back home games.
4. Speaking of bye weeks, Pitt ties with Miami, Syracuse and Florida State for the earliest bye, coming in week four. Boston College draws the longest straw, having to play ten games before a week off. VT ties with Georgia Tech for second longest before a bye, at nine games.
5. NC State and Boston College are the only two ACC schools not to schedule a P5 opponent in a non-conference game. BC does play Notre Dame, however. NC State plays a murderer's row of Troy, Eastern Kentucky, Old Dominion and South Alabama.
6. NC State plays AT Old Dominion and South Alabama. Other ACC teams that play away games at a mid-major's home field include Syracuse (at South Florida), Duke (at Tulane, at Army), Miami (at Florida Atlantic, at Cincinnati), Pitt (at Akron) and VT (at ECU).
7. Nobody opens conference play week one. The ACC slate opens week two with Wake Forest at Syracuse. VT is one of five teams to open conference play in week five. Thanks to an early bye week and a schedule frontloaded with non-conference games, Miami won't open ACC play until week six.
8. UVA has the farthest to travel to open the season, playing at UCLA week one. Of teams opening away from home, UNC travels the shortest distance, playing USCe at Charlotte.
I'm sure there's lots more interesting tidbits to be found, but these were the ones that jumped out at me.
Comments
How many years since we have been in the ACC have we gotten a bye week before GT? Seems like a bunch.
2004, 2010, 2011 and 2015. We're 3-0 when playing them after a bye week.
I would count 2012 as well, when it was week 1.
Definitely counts as having extra time to prepare, but he asked how many times we've had our bye week before GT.
Syracuse is the only team with nothing but Saturday games.
Nice catch!
FIFY
still getting used to the new name..."dang that's a lot of legs for someone I've never seen on here before"
I've been wanting to ask. Is this the former ChoppinWood the former StineyFTL?
Wood.
hehe
And, seriously, who wants to be Syracuse?
are cincy and ecu really mid-majors?
ugh...cincy is the only team we've beaten for a BCS bowl win and we're stuck with ECU for the next eternity or two
blegh
The AAC isn't a P5 conference, so I'd call it mif-major. It's kind of a gray area though because the Big East was a BCS conference. Then again, every decent remaining Big East team (post 2004 ACC expansion) is now in another conference. I'd say it's definitely mid-major now.
Also, Cincy was a BCS conference team when we beat them.