The other ten schools are played every other year. At least we get Clemson every other year now. VT is also every other year. For some reason, I thought all four teams in a group would play one another but that’s not the case. Here’s everyone’s yearly rivals:
Boston College: Miami, Pitt, Syracuse Clemson: FSU, Georgia Tech, NC State Duke: UNC, NC State, Wake Forest Florida State: Clemson, Miami, Syracuse Georgia Tech: Clemson, Louisville, Wake Forest Louisville: Georgia Tech, Miami, Virginia Miami: BC, FSU, Louisville North Carolina: Duke, NC State, Virginia NC State: Clemson, Duke, UNC Pitt: BC, Syracuse, Virginia Tech Syracuse: BC, FSU, Pitt Virginia: Louisville, UNC, Virginia Tech Virginia Tech: Pitt, Virginia, Wake Forest Wake Forest: Duke, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech
Not really all that married to UL and BC. Wanted Clemson every year this is what we’re getting. I guess it’s about balance - no Duke/UVA every year but no VT either. FSU goes on as it should and we can pick up more games with Clemson, NC State, Wake and the rest we didn’t usually get to play. Syracuse will be every other year too. What do you think?
The other ten schools are actually twice every four years, not necessarily every other year. It’ll average that but we’re supposed to have home and home with all schools over four years if they’re not the permanent rivals.
Not sure how we got Louisville as the permanent one? I’m sure Georgia Tech and Virginia are asking the same question. They were the Maryland replacement school and have been in the Atlantic since they’ve been here and yet for permanent rivals they’re handed three old Coastal schools. Go figure that one out.
Hard to put too much emotion into this as I am sure these pairings were very difficult to achieve and decisions had to be made. That said, allowing for history and geography I would have preferred Syracuse over Louisville in UM’s yearly rivals. At least there’s one northeast rivalry to deepen with BC.
Somehow Florida State got Syracuse, not us and Louisville, again, got three old Coastal teams as “rivals”. They had taken the Maryland spot after they fled for the B1G money so you have to feel they were kind of just thrown in with schools to make this annual rivals thing work.