A while back we looked at the Five Things we liked about the 2023 ACC Football Schedule. With the good comes the bad though, and this schedule isn’t perfect.
Overscheduling
Over the last few years Georgia Tech and Virginia have been notorious for over-scheduling, i.e scheduling games they simply aren’t equipped to play at this time. Georgia Tech has to play Georgia, but what is a series against Ole Miss doing there? This year the Jackets head to Ole Miss. Virginia is even worse this season. They head to Tennessee and Maryland. Maybe you play one of those games, but not both. Especially when you were arguably the ACC’s worst team last season.
Road Games at Group of 5 schools
The ACC needs to stop this, and if the ACC Offices have their way that will be the case. Wake Forest playing Old Dominion, NC State at UCONN, Boston College at Army and Miami at Temple simply shouldn’t be happening three times in one season. One maybe two at most. These kinds of games get no credit with a win and are devastating when you lose. I’ve got more to say about Old Dominion.
Virginia Tech series with Old Dominion
This is so bad. Why Virginia Tech has a 10-year series makes no sense with 5 of them at Old Dominion, and already having lost to them in recent years. Just nine more games between Virginia Tech and Old Dominion. Yea great – At least this year’s game is Blacksburg, well until next year.
Too many weekday games for some.
I have no problem with weekday games, but why does Louisville have 4 of them, and Boston College and Miami with 3 each? There are several ACC teams with only 0 or 1 weekday game. If Louisville, Boston College, and Miami agreed to those weekday games then no problem, but it seems like it could have been more equitably spread among ACC teams.
Let Rivalry week be Rivalry week
The final week of the season has the normal ACC/SEC rivalry games. NC State and UNC are playing each other, and Virginia and Virginia Tech are facing off, but couldn’t Duke and Wake Forest play? They are playing earlier in the season. Syracuse and Boston College play earlier, and that should have been on rivalry week. That was missed opportunity for the ACC.
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