ACC Roundtable: Boston Edition
Posted by Brandon Rink on September 29, 2009 under ACC Football, Other ACC Coverage | 
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The college football world turns toward Boston this week with the 4LN’s College Gameday coming to town, but in Raycom affiliate areas, you have to switch to ACC Football Today to see me featured in the first 15 minutes or so then continue with your life. Anyways, the guys at BC Interruption are hosting this week so check ‘em out.
Now that most ACC teams’ non-conference schedules are winding down and we are starting league play, it’s time to take the vitals of the ACC’s play in non-conference action. Here is how the ACC fared against the rest of college football through 4 weeks (based on my back-of-the-envelope math):
BCS Conferences
vs. Big East 2-2 (.500)
vs. Pac 10 1-1 (.500)
vs. Big XII 1-2 (.333)
vs. SEC 0-2 (.000)
The Rest
vs. I-A Indep. 1-0 (1.000)
vs. MAC 1-0 (1.000)
vs. Conference USA 2-1 (.666)
vs. Sun Belt 1-1 (.500)
vs. Mountain West 1-2 (.333)
vs. FCS 9-2 (.818)
Overall 19-13 (.594)
Comment on your team’s (if applicable, sorry Miami) and the conference’s non-conference performance through 4 weeks. As a conference, what head-to-head record against another conference stands out to you most?
I don’t know how the FCS losses do not stand out the most. Being 1-1 versus the Sun Belt isn’t too smooth either(thanks Maryland). The other conferences owned the ACC this season–big deal for those into conference superiority–not so much for me(but I like to see the ACC do well OOC).
(Because we like to fan the ACC vs. Big East flames …) The only BCS conferences the ACC has a .500 record against so far this year is the Big East (4 games) and the Pac-10 (2 games). Yikes. In a weekend where 2 of 3 Big East teams knocked off ACC teams, we have to ask. The ACC is still > Big East, right? Right??
Correct. We already know VT is better than Cincinnati(Big East’s top dog) I believe. Maryland and FSU(two Big East losses) are head-cases, but then again, so is most of the ACC. From USF-FSU, we see the gap isn’t quite as wide as it used to be, but I think the ACC is a little better(and not as much as they should be).
(Just saw I left this one off)On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is losing to a CAA team and 10 is getting the ACC some much needed street cred by winning the BCS MNC, how satisfied are you with your AD’s non-conference scheduling this year? With the non-conference opponents your program has lined up over the next few years, will you be more or less satisfied?
Overall, the ACC scheduled some big games(Miami/Oklahoma, Virginia Tech/Bama, Virginia Tech/Nebraska, Clemson/TCU, Wake/Baylor, Wake/Stanford), but they still get a 4.5 to me(which is an F if you are scoring at home). I hate beauty pageant scheduling where teams are afraid to schedule to bolster their record. This is why I greatly dislike the current system of deciding championships–teams have to play a string of yuck games outside of conference to make themselves look good for the polls. Give a system where you play the best teams you can out of conference to prepare you for your conference games to a playoff. That would be good football.
Last one, ESPN’s College GameDay is heading to Chestnut Hill this week for Florida State (2-2) at Boston College (3-1). Both teams are unranked. Parts of the blogosphere are going completely ape (descriptive word for excrement) over the WWL’s selection. Justify the selection (if you can). If not, tell us why you dislike the selection.
If we operate under the idea that GameDay still goes to the best game of the weekend, this is obviously a poor decision. But it doesn’t. Heck, they went to some D-III game a couple years ago. GameDay is about the story and BC has one with Herzlich battling cancer. This is the best opportunity for the 4LN to spotlight this story and BC could actually make statement on the football field too. Miami/Oklahoma would be the best ACC matchup for the 4LN to go to this week, but they don’t make decisions based on that anymore.
Thanks for reading and go to BC Interruption for all the ACC Roundtable posts this week!
