(Ducks)

Fwiw, Marshall played Norfolk State the week before playing us, so kinda sorta a bye.

I actually think byes are more helpful after big games than before them. You’re often physically beat up, and mentally (no matter whether it’s a win or a loss, but for different reasons) it can take a few days for you to get back into fully-prepared mode in the days following a big game. But most people talk about the benefit of a bye before the game rather than afterwards.

The whole “wahhhh we have to play teams after their byes!!!” is a ridiculous and weak argument used by Sampson/One Foot Down/etc. to make us look better than we are. It’s the same thing as the ACC win streak- who cares?

Do we think Alabama fans would even care, let alone bring it up right and left, if it happened to them?

I do think it is evidence of the ACC's general desire to fuck us, and our general seeming unwillingness to stick up for ourselves in these sorts of arrangements. But that's more about intentions than actual impact.