(Huge shoutout to Jamie DeAntonis, who researched and wrote this piece for BCI! You can check out his article from last week here.)
Last week, we looked at ways Boston College football could make the ACC championship game. At that time, the most realistic path was
- BC finishes 4-0
- Louisville finishes 2-1 or worse
- BC wins what would likely be a tiebreaker scenario among 6-2 teams
Since BC doesn’t win the two-way tiebreaker with Louisville alone, but does win tiebreakers with {Louisville and Virginia Tech}, {Louisville and North Carolina}, {Louisville, Virginia Tech and North Carolina} and some others, so we also wanted
- Virginia Tech and/or North Carolina wins out (in order to join the hypothetical tie)
We also noticed that there are some hypothetical ties whose winner is still up in the air depending on the final standings in combined win percentage of conference opponents (let’s call this CWPCO).