Could the Miami Hurricanes' strength of schedule issues lead to leaving the ACC?
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Christopher Walsh here with Just a Minute
with Miami Hurricanes on SI, and I know a
lot of you are out there this week kind
of shaking your heads about the rankings falling
to number seven, you know, going to Notre Dame,
tough venue, tough environment, game
comes down arguably one play tight,
Miami ends up losing, didn't even have, didn't have
its best player, you know,
we've heard all the arguments and everything, and it tumbles
We're almost down to number seven.
Here's the thing.
It's all about strength and schedule.
That's the whole thing.
And the ACC right now just does not compare with not even the SEC,
but the Big Ten.
And for Miami to sit there and play all the way up to Notre Dame
without facing a single ranked opponent,
and it looks like it won't face a ranked opponent
the rest of the regular season.
So we're really talking about it's going to face one ranked team
until it goes to the ACC championship game.
I, you know, I, I really can't sit there
and say that the committee was completely out of line.
It's, and personally, I, I know this is going to be unpopular.
I think the strength of schedule
has got to count a lot more than, than the record,
because if the record, if you are playing teams
at this level and this team is playing teams at this level,
uh, you can't tell me that a nine
and O team and an easy conference should be easier.
Conference should be facing for, you know,
I'm playing for a national championship.
Does that mean I think Miami should be number seven?
No, I think it definitely should be higher.
And hopefully we're going to see the Hurricanes move back up
as we progress, get a little bit closer to the playoff.
The thing is, I think it's very likely that we're going to see Miami
try to get out of the ACC pretty soon because of this,
unless the ACC does something radical.
And let's face it, ever since it added Cal and Stanford,
And I mean.
No disrespect to those schools.
The geography just doesn't work.
The conference is just not on the same level as the others.
With Just a Minute, I'm Christopher Walsh.
Thanks for being here.

