As I look out my window at the hotel that is currently home to NC State football team in Charlotte, I can’t help be get a little excited about the Wolfpack’s 5th bowl appearance in the last 6 seasons in Saturday’s Meineke Car Care Bowl (more comments can be found here).
Despite my excitement about the game, I can’t help but feel some pains of jealousy directed towards UNC-CH for their recent haul of big-time college football awards.
What? You hadn’t heard about it? Oh yes…the Tarheels raked in the awards recently and have commemorated them with T-Shirts (that will be hung beside new banners in the Smith Center).
You can call 1-800-crybaby to order either of your favorite T-Shirts to commemorate Carolina’s schedule this season:
As a refresher, Matt Baker’s comments and discussion can be found by clicking here. Matt fails to address the interesting point that if Carolina would have been a better team, then NC State’s schedule might have been considered tougher by others.
Our own award for the best comments on the topic goes to Eddie. Eddie…we haven’t heard from you in a while. Come on back sometime soon.
MTSU, EKY, USM vs Wisky, Utah, Louisville
UNC beat Utah. So if we traded OOC schedules, UNC beats EKY, probably beats MTSU, and USM is absolutely NOT a gimme for them.
But, here is the rub: If we traded complete schedules, then UNC would have to play Clemson, Wake, FSU
Instead of who they actually played: UVA, Duke, Miami
These are the differences in our ACC schedules.
Okay, Wake murdered Duke. UNC barely beat Duke, so I’d say trading Wake for Duke is a loss for UNC. That cancels out one of our “easy� OOC wins.
Clemson is better than UVA. UNC beat UVA 7-5. So I’d say Clemson hammers UNC. That erases another “easy� OOC win.
Trading FSU for Miami still results in a UNC loss, so that’s a wash.
That leaves the question mark of whether they could beat USM. That would be the difference in our schedules if we traded. We’re talking about one game, really.
One thing I would guarantee…..NC State would NOT lose to Louisville by 55 points. We would have been competitive against all 3 of UNC’s OOC opponents.
So go cry, Matt. But there’s no guarantee that if we switched schedules, UNC would not be home for the holidays this year.
If we traded schedules, UNC might pick up 2 OOC wins, but will lose 2 more in the ACC. Got to look at the whole picture.
Of course, you really never know, but what I’m saying is certainly not “tortured logicâ€? – UNC had an easier ACC schedule than we did, and a tougher OOC.
What Baker was referring to was our “easy� OOC. That’s fine, but all I’m saying is that if you want our OOC, then you have to take our ACC schedule, too.
That means UNC gets play away games AT: BC, Wake, FSU
In addition to home games with: Clemson, Maryland (same as they did already and lost, we beat them)
VT (they got destroyed at VT, would have been no different at UNC)So someone tell me that UNC would be guaranteed a bowl game playing that schedule.
Still waiting……………
