Originally Posted by
CameronBornAndBred
One of the concerns of last year was our weak schedule. Looking back at results of the teams that we'll be playing this year, I'm not sure that perception will change much.
8 of the 12 teams we played finished with losing records. Three of those teams went bowling, but lost in their bowls and thus ended at 6-7. (By the way...two of those three teams beat us, and the third came within a missed FG.) Here are the results, ACC records in parenthesis.
Tulane (Thurs.) 3-9
NC CENTRAL 7-5
NORTHWESTERN 5-7
GEORGIA TECH 11-3 (6-2)
BOSTON COLLEGE 7-6 (4-4)
Army 4-8
Virginia Tech 7-6 (3-5)
MIAMI 6-7 (5-3)
North Carolina 6-7 (4-4)
PITT 6-7 (4-4)
Virginia 5-7 (3-5)
Wake Forest 3-9 (1-7)
Another way to look at it, CBB, is that we are playing six bowl teams, which isn't bad. It happens that Pitt, UNC and Miami were 6-6 and lost their bowl games to finish with losing records.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013