Non-Conference Scheduling Thoughts

While I'm on the subject of scheduling in the ACC:

• The sum total D-IA experience of Boston College's nonconference schedule is 109 years, over half of which is provided by Brigham Young. You're in the ACC now, have some respect with regards to scheduling.
  
  
• Teams to get used to seeing a lot of this year: Notre Dame (facing Georgia Tech and UNC), Western Michigan (Florida State and Virginia), Troy (Florida State and Georgia Tech), Florida International (Maryland and Miami), Southern Mississippi (N.C. State and Virginia Tech), and East Carolina (N.C. State and Virginia). Especially savor the two games against the Fighting Irish - it's a rare week they make it on to television.
  
  
• Big East conference members visiting the ACC: Cincinnati (Virginia Tech, 9/23), Connecticut (Wake Forest, 9/16), Louisville (Miami, 9/16), Pittsburgh (Virginia, 9/2), Rutgers (UNC, 9/2), South Florida (UNC, 10/14), Syracuse (Wake Forest, 9/2), and West Virginia (9/16).
  
  
• SEC teams doing the same: Alabama (Duke, 10/7), Vanderbilt (Duke, 10/28), Ole Miss (Wake Forest, 9/23) and the season-ending rivalry games for South Carolina (Clemson, 11/25), Georgia (Georgia Tech, 11/25), and Florida (FSU, 10/25). Nice to know what it takes to get one of those teams on your schedule without 50+ years of personal animosity, isn't it?
  
  
• No Big Ten, Big Twelve, or Pac-10 teams play ACC squads this year. I'm glad that twelfth game is being used for such marquee matchups.
  
  
• And if you're a Conference USA fan? Try Houston (Miami, 9/30), Rice (Florida State, 9/23), Southern Miss (NCSU, 9/16), and everybody's favorite team to be legisatively mandated to schedule, East Carolina (Virginia, 10/7 and NCSU, 11/25).
  
  
• For the record, the breakdown is 8 Big East games, 6 SEC, and 5 Conference USA, with the remaining 29 divided up amongst the MAC (6), the Sun Belt (6), the Mountain West (2), the WAC (1), four independents and a shameful 9 Division I-AA teams.
  
  
• The three squads that should be applauded for going twelve rounds in the grown-up leagues? Clemson, North Carolina State, and Virginia. Maryland and Miami come the closest to double-dipping, adding Florida International, in its second year in DI-A, to schedules that already have DI-AA teams on them (William & Mary and Florida A&M, respectively).