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BC scheduling for a bowl game:
OOC is UMASS, Wagner (?), UCONN and Buffalo.
For some inexplicable reason, they are playing @ UMASS.
I hope there are four other ACC schools right now saying:
Shit, we gotta go to Blacksburg on (insert date), that's a loss.
We must protect our home field.
Yea, and probably just my own bias towards October home games - it's the best time to be in Blacksburg for a game as far as getting the full on Hokie Colored Tree Effects.
First game is on my 35th B-Day. That makes it a little better...
Yea that absolutely sucks from a recruiting standpoint. No saturday games to host prospects for and the only home game is on a thursday which i can't imagine many prospects would come to seeing as how they have their own games the next day.
Cool, Pitt plays PSU. They also play at Okie St and @ Clemson.
Also....oddly attractive matchup with L'ville @ Houston in late November.
Yeah... Miami got hosed, bigtime. and could easily come limping into our game. @GT-FSU-UNC-@VT in the span of 21 days. That's BRUTAL
Also worth noting everyone who plays us this year (outside of Miami) is on the road before our game. Considering those road opponents for everyone in the Coastal are GT, FSU, or UNC, that could very much play into our favor.
The bye week before UNC is good. They could be one of the toughest teams on the ACC schedule.
I've noticed that October always seems to be a feast-or-famine kind of situation for us. Either we get 3 really good home Saturdays or none.
I think the opposite. Our schedule sets up rather nicely. Outside of the Miami-Pitt week, most games are likely winnable or at least separated by winnable games. We don't have any killer 3-4 week stretches of games.
We better beat ECU this year, otherwise that bye week afterwards is going to be excruciating.
I appointed myself ACC dictator, I could make it work.
Virginia Tech plays Duke in Lane Stadium agains this season.
/Moves the rest of the pieces around, repeats as many times as necessary.
Wow - we have no Saturday Home games between 9/24 and 11/12.....
What are the odds on me getting up at 4:30AM to watch BC v. GT on opening day weekend? Yeesh.
yeah I hadn't seen that. that's rough. I don't feel bad for us. I just hope we WIN GAMES BABY
Miami plays FSU, UNC then at Virginia Tech in a span of 13 days.
However, if I was in charge of creating the ACC schedule, and I did so in the best interest of Virginia Tech, the Hokies would play Boston College on Thursday night. I would take the implicit exposure of Thursday night's primetime audience, and hedge my bets that Virginia Tech-Miami could draw a timeslot on Saturday better than the de facto noon or noon-thirty for VT-BC to maximize exposure.
I talked about this in another thread but due to the complexities of the non-conference schedules of VT & their home ACC opponents, the only game that could be slated on September 24th was Boston College. Unless you'd rather have a bye that early into our schedule, there was no other alternative to fill the 9/24 slot.
I thought so. I thought for sure we'd get run out the stadium considering we lead into that with the 3OT matchup with Marshall. Ugh.
They gave both FSU and Clemson bye weeks before they play each other. I cannot believe I am typing this, but shrewd move by the ACC.
Yup... they didn't learn from last year
#AllMaroonEverythingThursdayNight
What could go wrong.
I think the BC game is going to be about as low scoring as a game can get.
No, Miami plays UNC the week before us.
Does Miami have a bye week before us? Otherwise, I don't see any complaints to be had here. We knew BC would be in September, coupled with ECU/Liberty home games and UVA/ND games set for November, we had some set dates to work around.
Does UNcheat have two FCS teams on their schedule?
Which we have done an absolutely horrible job of doing recently. We used to be a consensus top 5 toughest place to play. Coaches voted us number 2 behind LSU somewhere back in the 2005-2007ish range
Think about how different the last four seasons would have been if we could have won at home.