Saturday, November 15, 2008

How do you get an ACC team to lose?

So Casey can vouch for me, but I called this about three or four weeks ago. So how do you guarantee an ACC team will lose? Rank them in the top 25 (as always this also shows what a farce the ranking system is).

Week 12 (I've placed the rank team to the left not necessarily the home team):
#16 NC vs Maryland 15 - 17 LOSS
#19 Florida State vs BC 17 - 27 LOSS
#24 Wake vs NC State 17 - 21 LOSS

Week 11
*GT and NC were both ranked so don't count
#21 Florida State vs Clemson 41 - 27 WIN
#23 Maryland vs Virginia Tech 13 - 23 LOSS

Week 10
#15 Florida State vs GT 28 - 31 LOSS

Week 9
#18 GT vs Virginia 17 - 24 LOSS
#25 Florida State vs VTech 30 - 20 WIN

Week 8
#17 VTech vs BC 23 - 28 LOSS
#18 NC vs Virginia 13 - 16 LOSS
#21 Wake Forest vs Maryland 0 - 26 LOSS

Week 7
#21 Wake vs Clemson 12 - 7 WIN
#22 NC vs Notre Lame 29 - 24 WIN

Week 6
#20 VTech vs Western Kentucky 27 - 13 WIN
#24 UConn vs NC 12 - 38 LOSS

Week 5
#20 Clemson vs Maryland 17 - 20 LOSS
#16 Wake vs Navy 17 - 24 LOSS

Week 4
#23 Clemson vs South Carolina State 54 - 0 win but we are not counting DII schools
*both Wake and Florida State ranked

Week 3
No ACC Teams ranked with a game (this trend should have continued, but they kept throwing someone back in the rankings)

Week 2
#20 Wake vs Mississippi 30 - 28 WIN

Week 1
#9 Clemson vs #24 Alabama 10 - 24 LOSS
#17 VTech vs E Carolina 22 - 27 LOSS
#23 Wake vs Baylor 41 - 13 WIN

7 WINS and 14 LOSSES OVERALL
3 WINS and 11 LOSSES in ACC play
So the iron is particularly hot when you have a conference game and you are ranked...

And to evaluate those non ACC wins: Baylor (4-7), Mississippi (6-4), Western Kentucky (2-9 I thought they were DII, but they are independent), and Notre Lame (6-4).

But it begs the question (that was for Ben), why do the teams keep getting ranked? Is it because the team that gets ranked is really dominant and deserves to be ranked or because the ACC is a BCS conference and should have a team ranked so they keep throwing votes at the problem?

7 comments:

Ben said...

Throwing votes.

My ears are bleeding.

caseytanner said...

great line, "throwing votes at the problem". That's exactly what the BCS is all about.

JD said...

There's no question that the ACC is an absolute madhouse this season. It'd be interesting to see how the ACC teams do in the game immediately following their entrance into the top 25.

I think the Big East may have the same problem with teams that were ranked (USF, UConn, WVU) -- 'cept I think the Big East is weaker.

Anonymous said...

Adding one more to the list:

#23 Miami vs Georgia Tech 23-41 LOSS..

Go Tech!

Anonymous said...

Another interesting stat here. 100% of the time an ACC team is ranked better than 20, they lose.

JD said...

UNC (ranked 22) lost today. the trend continues

Anonymous said...

Yeah it's an 0 for 2 today and 0 for 3 on the week again in the ACC.

#22 UNC vs NC State 10 to 41 LOSS
#25 Maryland vs Florida State 3 to 37 LOSS

What beat downs. I never really specified what poll(s), but I guess it doesn't matter much anyway...