(09-17-2013 02:14 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(09-17-2013 11:17 AM)bigblueblindness Wrote:  What would you guys have shown instead? The Big 10's insistence on not playing conference games early in the season is a big part of the reason that the SEC is getting spotlighted. The ACC and PAC only have a handful of early season conference matchups, and they have been sucky. Plus, the SEC is ESPN's product now... why wouldn't they promote and show their product? They are paying heavily for it because people watch it more than other products. I guarantee if Oregon-Stanford would have played at night this past weekend, it would have taken the premium slot. Bama/TAMU, Vandy/USC, and Auburn/Miss. St. all have SEC divisional implications, and Bama/TAMU had BCS implications. The bottom line is that non-SEC conferences need to get with the times and do a better job of spreading out their premier games throughout the entire season.

There were at least 6 OOC games between the Pac-12 and Big Ten which could've been in prime time. My problem with ACC scheduling is we'll have one really great weekend and then one really bad weekend, instead of have 1 or 2 great games every week. So, I guess we agree on that.

15 weeks this year, 2 games a week is 30 matchups. Can you come up with 30 interesting ACC matchups out of this years schedule? 15 matchups considering, which teams don't play each other because the divisions are too big. Would you really want to move any of the rivalry week games? I don't think I could put together a schedule with that many marquee games from the ACC schedule.