Wednesday, December 30, 2009

future schedules

Jeff White is the guy who has all this information, but when new out-of-conference matchups are announced, he's probably not going to update that page and you're probably not going to go digging for it. That's where this comes in. Besides, there's a little extra. I'll have this linked on the side with the rest of the useful stuff. 2015 - five years - is as far as it'll go for now, though you could extrapolate the ACC schedule to eternity if you like.

2011

Home (7): Idaho, Southern Mississippi, William & Mary, Duke, Georgia Tech, NC State, Virginia Tech

Away (5): Indiana, Maryland, Florida State, Miami, North Carolina

ACC skip: Boston College, Clemson, Wake Forest

Open dates remaining: 0

2012

Home (7): Penn State, Richmond, Louisiana Tech, Maryland, Miami, North Carolina, Wake Forest

Away (5): TCU, Duke, Georgia Tech, NC State, Virginia Tech

ACC skip: Boston College, Clemson, Florida State

Open dates remaining: 0

2013

Home (7): VMI, Ball State, UTSA, Clemson, Duke, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech

Away (5): Penn State, Maryland, Miami, North Carolina, Wake Forest

ACC skip: Boston College, Florida State, NC State

Open dates remaining: 0

2014

Home (7): Richmond, UCLA, Kent State, Boston College, Maryland, Miami, North Carolina

Away (5): Duke, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, UTSA

ACC skip: Florida State, NC State, Wake Forest

Open dates remaining: 0

2015

Home (5): William & Mary, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech

Away (5): UCLA, Boston College, Maryland, Miami, North Carolina

ACC skip: Clemson, NC State, Wake Forest

Open dates remaining: 2

2016

Home (4): Maryland, Miami, North Carolina, NC State

Away: (5): Connecticut, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech

ACC skip: Boston College, Clemson, Wake Forest

Open dates: 3

2017

Home (5): Connecticut, Duke, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest

Away (4): Maryland, Miami, North Carolina, NC State

ACC skip: Boston College, Clemson, Florida State

Open dates: 3

Commentary and editorializing because I can:

- The way the ACC schedule rotation shakes out means that each combination of two teams comes around every five years - the opponents we got in 2009, we'll get again in 2014. I really don't like the huge gap in between playing a cross-division opponent and would prefer a nine-game conference schedule.

- Look for 2013 to get filled up with three crapmunching bottom feeders, probably including a I-AA team that I wish we wouldn't bother with but hopefully comes from instate. A road trip to Penn State is not going to be supplemented with anyone that's also a major risk to beat us.

- I still think the UCLA series is an excellent idea, but I also think it's a bummer we scheduled more Mountain West matchups this past decade than SEC ones. Would like to see one this decade.

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