Not the most interesting schedule next year

Not the most interesting schedule next year
by KeoughCharles05 (2020-11-25 11:05:45)

In reply to: The UC game next year looks more and more interesting. posted by G.K.Chesterton

And the cadence is pretty bad. FSU probably won't be good, but we break in a new QB on the road against them. To the extent we're going to have the Toledo game on the schedule, it should be the first game.

Looks like the top teams we'll face will be USC, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Cincinnati. Unfortunately, along with Virginia Tech, we face them in consecutive games from Sept. 25 - Oct. 30, with a week off before USC.

November is a total snooze, with Navy, Virginia, Georgia Tech, and Stanford.

It's a schedule that doesn't include any real statement games, but the ordering of the games makes it more difficult than the caliber of teams would suggest (or that we'll get credit for). And the lack of any real opportunities in November gives us almost no room for error in the middle of the season.

If the schedule is unacceptable

maybe we should drop Stanford and Navy going forward.

I'm not particularly opposed to that

Though I at least understand the navy rationale.

The stanford game was all stemming from Monk getting his jollies off about aspirational peers. There's no reason to play that game every year.

The ACC dregs are a burden on the schedule.