(06-09-2016 10:45 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote: (06-09-2016 10:43 AM)nzmorange Wrote: Does any school in the ACC not already consistently play at least one P5 OOC game a year?
*Aside from NCSU.
Boston College.
That would be funny if true. Since FSU joined the conference in 1992 NC State has played the following in OOC play:
92 - Iowa/Virginia Tech (added to the ACC schedules in 2004)
93 - Purdue/Texas Tech
94 - Louisville (added to the ACC schedules in 2014)
95 - Baylor/Alabama
96 - Purdue/Alabama
97 - Syracuse (added to the ACC schedules in 2013)
98 - Baylor/Syracuse
99 - Texas/Syracuse
00 - Indiana
01 - Indiana
02 - Texas Tech
03 - Ohio State/Texas Tech/
UConn
04 - Ohio State
05 - None
06 - None
07 - Louisville (See Above)/
UCF
08 - South Carolina/Pitt (added to the ACC schedules in 2013)
09 - South Carolina/Pitt
10 -
UCF/Cincy
11 -
Cincy
12 - Tennessee/
UConn
13 - None
14 -
USF
15 - None
When these articles are written about playing OOC P-5's, the fact that VT, Syracuse, Pitt, and Louisville were added to the ACC is omitted. Furthermore, when UConn, USF, UCF, and Cincy were scheduled they were part of the P-6 - that little thing call the Big East.
Due to conference expansion and other skullduggery Tennessee backed out of a home and away for 11 and 13, the league office botched a home and away with ND that would have been around 13-15. Oklahoma State backed out of a home and away for 14 and 15 and LSU backed out of a home and away for 16 and 20.
Given that the program had been run into the ground by 2012, who are you going to call to fill those spots? Not top 35 OOC squads.
We have the following going forward:
16 - Notre Dame
17 - South Carolina/Notre Dame
18 - West Virginia
19 - West Virginia
20 - Mississippi State
21 - Mississippi State
22 - Texas Tech/
UConn
23 - Notre Dame/
UConn
24 - None
25 - Notre Dame
26 - Vandy
27 - Texas Tech
28 - Vandy
What the **** more do people want for an average football program operating in the most densely packed and over saturated part of the country?
Finally, NC State has to play perhaps the toughest G-5 rivalry game in the nation at least every three or so years. That's East Carolina - the most
consistently dangerous G-5 outside Boise State if you are a P-5 in North Carolina, Virginia, SC, or Florida. Upsets are what they do - and because they don't get the media attention and respect they deserve - it's an upset even when they have the far better team.
We played them 96, 97, 98, 04, 06, 08, 10, 13, and will again in 16, 19, and 22. We will have to schedule them beyond that date as well because if we do not, there is political hell to pay in the North Carolina General Assembly and with the UNC Board of Governors and among our own Board of Trustees all of whom are inter-populated with ECU alums within the same families.
It's true that NC State doesn't consistently play one P-5 OOC a year.
They play one and a half.