Wasn't it two years ago when Louisville played absolutely no one?
They still have a cake ACC schedule. There is one road game at FSU, and they get Clemson at home. The other home ACC games are vs Boston College, Syracuse, Virginia. The other road games are at NC State, at Wake Forest, at Pitt.
That's a very manageable conference slate. They can go 6-2 in the ACC without beating a team in the Top 30. Maybe the Top 40.
So I give Louisville credit for taking the opportunity to beef up its non-conference schedule. Rather than playing only one game against a Power 5 conference opponent - the annual in-state rivalry against Kentucky, Louisville is also playing at Auburn, and will play host to Houston.
Of course two of those non-conference games are road games, so I'm not sure what financial damage Louisville might incur by having only six home games. But I give them credit for scheduling a heavyweight like Auburn and a solid middleweight like Houston to go along with the annual rivalry game with Kentucky.
They still have a cake ACC schedule. There is one road game at FSU, and they get Clemson at home. The other home ACC games are vs Boston College, Syracuse, Virginia. The other road games are at NC State, at Wake Forest, at Pitt.
That's a very manageable conference slate. They can go 6-2 in the ACC without beating a team in the Top 30. Maybe the Top 40.
So I give Louisville credit for taking the opportunity to beef up its non-conference schedule. Rather than playing only one game against a Power 5 conference opponent - the annual in-state rivalry against Kentucky, Louisville is also playing at Auburn, and will play host to Houston.
Of course two of those non-conference games are road games, so I'm not sure what financial damage Louisville might incur by having only six home games. But I give them credit for scheduling a heavyweight like Auburn and a solid middleweight like Houston to go along with the annual rivalry game with Kentucky.
