Originally Posted by
gofurman
I don't see how we will play the postponed games (FSU/Pitt) if we aren't attempting to do it this week? This is Duke's full week off and corresponds with playing Pitt - why not play two days consecutive at Pitt as many teams are? As in the 19th (scheduled) and the 20th? Many conferences are doing this w back-to-back games. If we don't play one of the postponed games this week I don't see that there is really a strong effort to make those games up - might as well just call them 'cancelled'... Unless the other opponent cancels for COVID (say a PITT/FSU opponent on a later date) and we could work it in then. Just noting I haven't seen much effort in the ACC to make up postponed games... I just haven't heard of any work to reschedule these for any ACC team.
thoughts?
Below is the current, existing schedule for Saturday & Sunday. We are the only team "off." You rightly note, there would need to be a COVID issue in the Carolina program or the Syracuse program, resulting in a postponement of one of those games, in order for us to play FSU or Pitt *unless* they were willing to turn around and play Duke sometime on Sunday. FSU might, because their game with us would have been a home game and they are at home one Saturday. Pitt almost certainly won't agree to travel to Durham to play Duke in Cameron on Sunday and then again in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, but I suppose anything is possible. [Edit: I don’t see further unbalancing the schedule by playing Pitt twice on the road, rather than home-and-home, although that matters less without fans.]
Saturday
[31]Florida State (1-1) (-2) hosts [29]North Carolina (2-2) (12:00, ESPN)
[76]Pittsburgh (1-4) (+1) hosts [39]Syracuse (1-1) (12:00, ACCNX)
[49]NC State (2-2) (-5) hosts [70]Georgia Tech (2-1) (2:00, ACCNX)
[89]Notre Dame (0-4) (-3) hosts [105]Boston College (0-5) (4:00, ACCN)
[18]Clemson (3-1) (-2) hosts [15]Virginia (3-0) (6:00, ESPN)
[62]Miami (1-4) (+2) hosts [26]Louisville (3-0) (8:00, ACCN)
Sunday
[125]Wake Forest (0-3) (+7) hosts [33]Virginia Tech (3-1) (6:00, ACCN)
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