The ACC officially announced the 2009 Football Schedule for all 12 teams. Everyone plan your road trips accordingly.
Miami
Sept. 7 at Florida State (ESPN)
Sept. 17 Georgia Tech (ESPN)
Sept. 26 at Virginia Tech
Oct. 3 Oklahoma
Oct. 10 Florida A&M
Oct. 17 at Central Florida
Oct. 24 Clemson
Oct. 31 at Wake Forest
Nov. 7 Virginia
Nov. 14 at North Carolina
Nov. 21 Duke
Nov. 28 at South Florida
Miami will be playing a Murderer’s Row right out the gate. Opener against FSU on the road, followed with Ga Tech at home, and then Va Tech in Blacksburg. Oh, you don’t like opening a season with 3 conference games that can kill any hopes of a conference title by September 26th? Well, here’s Oklahoma for your first Out of Conference slate! Muwahahahahahaha. This is something even Hyman Roth would hesitate at. Running molasses out of Canada? No problem compared to those first 4 games.
Miami needs to win 2 of the 3 opening ACC tilts to have any chance of a conference crown. In fact, this may be the most difficult schedule, on paper, for an ACC team that I have ever seen. True, that isn’t saying much, but still. This is not your typical cake walk ACC season.
The obvious benefit here is if they can just go 3-1 to start, they will be sitting in great shape. Would have tie-breakers over many of the top teams next year in conference, and probably in the top 15 nationally depending on who they lost to. However, I’d probably be happy with 2-2, if one of the losses was to OU, leaving them 2-1 in conference play. If they go any worse, I’m afraid we will need to call in Frank Pantangeli’s brother over in Sicily to get us out of that mess.
