For the road games, my guess is ESPN will wait and see what kind of inventory of games they have available as other conferences with whom they have contractual obligations decide their schedules. Once all schedules are set, they will likely announces the first 2-3 weeks worth of schedules and after that the usual 12- and 6-day windows will apply. This year more than ever, they better have some old games to show because they may find out 1-2 days before a game that they won't have anything to show in a given slot(s).
With ND being classified as an ACC opponent, Clemson gets to schedule their annual scrimmage against a 1 AA squad which will most likely be The Citadel. Nice.
I might be wrong, but I thought that over half of the 1aa conferences canceled.
Before we’ve all had a chance to get good and drunk.
We only have two opponents who have byes before they play us, and we also have a bye before we play them.
This schedule is trash. Kelly should be embarrassed if he goes 9-2 and fired if he goes 8-3 or worse.
Not a huge deal, but you know.... one less thing.
but Navy is finally off our schedule.
The Three Stooges!
Kelly’s dream dumb-down schedule. It might
be NDs worst ever.
UNC might be tricky, but we will be favorites
in every game except Clemson.
And I'm not sure Manny Diaz, Mike Norvell and Justin Fuente are the guys that are going to move the needle for the conference.
I'm not saying it's as good as the SEC. I think the bottom-half is the anvil weighing it down.
ever had two very good programs at the same time. Since FSU joined in 1992, they've only had five seasons with two top ten teams:
1998 (FSU 3, Ga. Tech 9)
2007 (Va. Tech 9, BC 10)
2013 (FSU 1, Clemson 8) - 2012 was close as they were both 10 and 11
2014 (FSU 5, Ga. Tech 8)
2016 (Clemson 1, FSU 8). This was one of the conference's best seasons ever with five ranked teams).
FSU sustained success. Clemson has now sustained success. From 2012-2016, both programs were great. But other than that, you can't depend on any other program to be good. And you have an average of 3 ranked teams per year. The 75th percentile and down is generally clearly below the SEC or the Big Ten and probably also the Big 12.
The top of FBS, then everyone else.
But top to bottom, the ACC has been the weakest of the Power 5 conferences in football, and it hasn't even been close.
propping up Megachurches.
BK will have the team flatter than a pancake heading into Boston.....
Get ahold of yourself, man.
Those may be the "toughest" away games.
The ACC people think those might be the best bets for ND losses.
...for scheduling a respectable non-conference opponent (Central Florida).
9/12 Duke
9/19 Western Michigan
9/26 @ Wake Forest
10/3 Bye
10/10 Florida State
10/17 Louisville
10/24 @ Pitt
10/31 @ Georgia Tech
11/7 Clemson
11/14 @ Boston College
11/21 Bye
11/27 @ North Carolina
12/5 Syracuse
Looks like the worst schedule since 1998.
Only one team ranked last year. Of course, there's a good chance one or two of the others sneak into the poll. With new coaches on a positive trajectory, Louisville, FSU, or UNC could be ranked squads this year. They and Pitt or Syracuse or Wake Forest may be 8-5 caliber. Without non-conference losses, one or two of these teams will beat up on each other and likely emerge as the tallest midget.
If this is what it's like to be in a conference, I'd rather just quit football.
multiple times - like in the 1980s or 1990s.
Why? I know he didn't go to ND - did any of his kids?