New Schedule Announced

[boger2337]

My first reaction is this is a good schedule for us.

It’s been a long time - maybe a decade - since I could look at the schedule and not think we were on the wrong end of fair. This is a very difficult schedule but not unfair.

Lame UGA bailed.

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I agree. I hate to say it, but I like the idea of 10 and 2. 10 conference games and 2 out of conference.
It creates a reason to refocus on ACC as a whole.

Sounds terrible, but I wouldn't mind making uga every other year. Home, away, home, away. Every other year would make it more special to me. Then the odd years we don't play, we could possibly bring in Tennessee, Auburn, Florida, SC, or some Big 10, Big 12 teams. Give us a gimmie game. Like Jax state, Gardner Webb, Bowling Green. Then the other would be a power 5 team.

It keeps our schedule "strong" for the eye test, without being overbearing.

 

[boger2337]

Didn’t think about this but we might want to look at who Miami is playing because their schedule may disrupt ours. I’m just glad we’ve got them lat because as undisciplined as they are there will be nothing left of that team come November. They’ll either be all taken out by Covid, fighting each other or in jail.

Miami plays Clemson the week before we do.
It is at Clemson though :/

 

[wesgt123]

I agree. I hate to say it, but I like the idea of 10 and 2. 10 conference games and 2 out of conference.
It creates a reason to refocus on ACC as a whole.

Sounds terrible, but I wouldn't mind making uga every other year. Home, away, home, away. Every other year would make it more special to me. Then the odd years we don't play, we could possibly bring in Tennessee, Auburn, Florida, SC, or some Big 10, Big 12 teams. Give us a gimmie game. Like Jax state, Gardner Webb, Bowling Green. Then the other would be a power 5 team.

It keeps our schedule "strong" for the eye test, without being overbearing.

Would you feel the same way about it if we have been dominating the series though?

 

[boger2337]

Would you feel the same way about it if we have been dominating the series though?

Depends. Does it help our S.O.S.? Right now it hurts us. Reality is we haven't dominated the series in decades.

Just love the idea of 10 and 2, but also like the idea of 1 "warmup" and 1 power 5 as the 2. uga every other year.

 

[MWBATL]

So this means it won't be handled by the ACC. It's up to individual teams. Florida is one of the worst states in the union with handling Covid. Id suspect we have fans at Bobby Dodd. Especially since Kemp just made it harder for people to sue businesses over Covid.

NY, NJ, Mass, Conn and 13 other states all say "Hey, what about us?"

U.S. COVID death rate by state 2023 | Statista

As of March 2023, Arizona had the highest COVID death rate in the U.S., with 455 deaths per 100,000 population. Hawaii had the lowest death rate.

www.statista.com

#Facts

 

[boger2337]

NY, NJ, Mass, Conn and 13 other states all say "Hey, what about us?"

U.S. COVID death rate by state 2023 | Statista

As of March 2023, Arizona had the highest COVID death rate in the U.S., with 455 deaths per 100,000 population. Hawaii had the lowest death rate.

www.statista.com

#Facts

I guess we should see who Syracuse plays as well!!!!

 

[CuseJacket]

I guess we should see who Syracuse plays as well!!!!

Imagine an outbreak in Charlotte... 3.5 hours away from Atlanta. Should teams be concerned about Georgia Tech? We are closer to Charlotte than 'Cuse is to NYC.

Boston College is closer to the data you're referencing. NYC should be considered its own state. Upstate New York is the midwest.

 

[boger2337]

Imagine an outbreak in Charlotte... 3.5 hours away from Atlanta. Should teams be concerned about Georgia Tech? We are closer to Charlotte than 'Cuse is to NYC.

Boston College is closer to the data you're referencing. NYC should be considered its own state. Upstate New York is the midwest.

I'm curious what the numbers are for Pittsburgh, Louisville, Raleigh.

 

[GoJacketsInRaleigh]

I'm curious what the numbers are for Pittsburgh, Louisville, Raleigh.

I don't have any idea what Raleigh's numbers are because I don't take the time to look but I can tell you in my suburb town that a lot of people do not practice social distancing nor wear masks and they think the governor extending phase 2 another five weeks is purely political. Throughout the entire summer, I've only known one family personally that got Covid though my wife is convinced her and my son had it in January (both sick as hell for 5 days with high fever and other symptoms). We did have a couple nursing homes get hit pretty hard in Wake County but other than that you don't hear about an overwhelming amount of cases or anything like that.

 

[CuseJacket]

For those thinking about attending away games, here's a pretty good rundown of plans - as of today - across the ACC landscape.

What are other ACC football programs doing about fans in stands?

Even if college football can pull off a successful launch next month, there will likely be one discernible difference when teams run out of the tunnel: lots of empty seats.

www.syracuse.com

 

[WreckinGT]

I guess we should see who Syracuse plays as well!!!!

New York has had their problems in the past but currently they are doing rather well with a positivity rate of only about 1%. Syracuse in particular only had 38 cases for the entire week of 07/23-07/30. Playing at Syracuse might be one of the safer games we play.

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

New York has had their problems in the past but currently they are doing rather well with a positivity rate of only about 1%. Syracuse in particular only had 38 cases for the entire week of 07/23-07/30. Playing at Syracuse might be one of the safer games we play.

Isn't the 2-week quarantine on visitors state-wide, or is it just for NYC?

 

[boger2337]

New York has had their problems in the past but currently they are doing rather well with a positivity rate of only about 1%. Syracuse in particular only had 38 cases for the entire week of 07/23-07/30. Playing at Syracuse might be one of the safer games we play.

Wow! Doing better than metro Atlanta thats for sure!

 

[WreckinGT]

Isn't the 2-week quarantine on visitors state-wide, or is it just for NYC?

Statewide but there are exemptions for pro sports already. I would imagine some kind of exemption will also be given for college sports. Otherwise Syracuse would have already cancelled their season.

 

[bobongo]

The decision to do a +1 looks a bit ridiculous now. Three teams are playing Liberty. Ohio, Western Kentucky, Samford, Old Dominion, and Charlotte also got games. We are basically the only team playing a quality OOC game although Clemson and UNC have yet to schedule one.

Adding UCF gives us a third pre-season ranked team. We play #1 Clemson, #11 Notre Dame, and #20 UCF.

College football rankings: Preseason Top 25 for the 2020 season

Here's a look at the preseason Top 25 college football rankings for 2020. Clemson and Alabama are again contenders, though this season will look different. The Big Ten and Pac-12 are among the conferences not playing this fall because of COVID-19.

www.ncaa.com

 

[MidtownJacket]

Don't blame us or the ACC, blame the SEC.

Haha.. I said I hated the SEC even more than before.. How else could you take the comment?