In our big 2007 Football Schedule entry we highlight The Sporting News’ rankings of this year’s ACC football schedules .
We said, “It’s not their best work” but didn’t have more time to spend on the topic at the time.
Rivals.com also ranked the ACC’s schedule in this well-put-together-entry last week. Their work is crip, clean and concise. I like it.
It is interesting to observe the large variance in the perspective of TSN and Rivals in some of these rankings.
Rivals – TSN
(1) FSU / FSU
(2) BC / Miami
(3) UMD / GaTech
(4) NCST / Clem
(5) Miami/ VaTech
(6) Clem / Duke
(7) Duke / UNC
(8) VaTech/ NCST
(9) GaTech/ WFU
(10) UNC / UMD
(11) UVA / BC
(12) WFU / UVA
The following is the list of ACC schools based on an average ranking of the two opinions. The number that follows the team is the variance between the two ranking services:
(1) FL State; 1 average; 0 variance
(2) Miami; 3.5 average, 3 variance
(3) Clemson; 5 average; 2 variance
(4) NC State; 6 average, 4 variance
(5) Georgia Tech; 6 average, 6 variance
(6) Duke; 6.5 average, 1 variance
(7) Virginia Tech; 6.5 average, 3 variance
(8) Maryland; 6.5 average, 7 variance
(9) Boston College; 6.5 average, 9 variance
(10) UNC-CH; 8.5 average, 3 variance
(11) Wake; 10.5 average, 3 variance
(12) UVA; 11.5 average, 1 variance
