Sunday, September 13, 2020

2020 Week 2 wrap up

It's been a while, folks, and we've come back to a strange world.  I don't need to rehash how massively screwed up 2020 has been and continues to be as we start the college football season.  I will say that I will continue to number the weeks based on the original form of the schedule.  Therefore, the games of September 12 were part of week 2.

We've got all new criteria to work around this year as every Power 5 conference changed their schedules.  The Big Ten and Pac-12 cancelled (although maybe they'll reconsider?).  The SEC ditched non-conference games and went to a 10 game conference schedule (up from 8).  The Big 12 is still playing 9 conference games, and only adding one non-conference game during the month of September.  The ACC probably has the biggest set of changes, as they increased to 10 conference games (from 8) plus one non-conference game, and ditched their divisions when they added Notre Dame as a full member for this season.

And that's all before we have to worry about cancellations and rescheduling games.

The only conference with conference games in the books is the ACC.  The new alignment is 15 teams each playing 10 conference games, with the top two teams going to the ACCCG.  We could run into a different kind of ACC chaos as each team will not play 4 other teams in the conference, so we are not guaranteed tiebreakers for every situation.

As usual, any records listed below will only be conference records.  Although in many cases, that will be the same as overall record.

In an effort to make it easier to keep track of tiebreakers with more games and fewer divisions, I'll be adding two extra lines under each team tracking wins and losses.  For now, I'll be eliminating the "controls destiny" and other categories, because those definitions will be floating for most of the season.

ACC
Clemson (1-0)
    W:  Wake Forest
    L:  none
Notre Dame (1-0)
    W:  Duke
    L:  none
UNC (1-0)
    W:  Syracuse
    L:  none
Georgia Tech (1-0)
    W:  FSU
    L:  none
Florida State (0-1)
    W:  none
    L:  Georgia Tech
Syracuse (0-1)
    W:  none
    L:  UNC
Duke (0-1)
    W:  none
    L:  Notre Dame
Wake Forest (0-1)
    W:  none
    L:  Clemson

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