When I got my first look at the 2013 VT football schedule, I wasn't a big fan, and I figured most of the conversation would revolve around that five-day "rest" before visiting Georgia Tech.

It's a dog of a schedule. I thought Chris Coleman was much too kind in his column Monday, when the schedule was announced. I thought the ACC gave VT the short end of the stick in many areas:

  • Scheduling a road trip to GT just five days after a home game.
  • Sending Duke to Blacksburg two years in a row.
  • Sending VT to Miami and BC two years in a row.
  • Scheduling those BC and Miami trips back-to-back.
  • No return trip to Tallahassee after last year's FSU-VT game in Blacksburg. (Yes, this is bad, because it's a high-profile game that VT won't be playing.)
  • Scheduling Maryland as the other Atlantic Division game, instead of Clemson, FSU, or NC State. (This was previously announced, not new information.)

Those were all ACC decisions, not VT decisions.