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NC State and Virginia were scheduled to open the season in Raliegh this season, and they sold the game to Rio de Janerio. Yep, two ACC teams were going to play a non-conference matchup in Brazil.

Fans were pissed, but then some said, let's make a trip out of it and bought airline tickets, booked hotels, etc.

They announced today that Rio couldnt handle it and now the game is being played in Charlottesville.
 
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1) How is it a nonconference game? They are both ACC teams.

2) Why didn’t it just revert back to Raleigh?
 
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The 6th most populated city in the Americas and recent host of the Olympics couldn't handle a regular season college football game?

Edit: I'd guess the real reason was ticket sales were atrocious and team travel costs were skyrocketing, and some bean counter decided to pull the plug before both teams lost a bunch of money
 
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615dawg said:
NC State and Virginia were scheduled to open the season in Raliegh this season, and they sold the game to Rio de Janerio. Yep, two ACC teams were going to play a non-conference matchup in Brazil.

Fans were pissed, but then some said, let's make a trip out of it and bought airline tickets, booked hotels, etc.

They announced today that Rio couldnt handle it and now the game is being played in Charlottesville.
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The fans should start a rally and burn tiki torches to display their anger.
 
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Perd Hapley said:
1) How is it a nonconference game? They are both ACC teams.

2) Why didn’t it just revert back to Raleigh?
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Same reason the governors cup isn’t a conference game.

2 guesses. Thought they could make more money in Charlottesville. Or UVA needed a hime game & nc state had already replaced it with another hime game.
 
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patdog said:
Same reason the governors cup isn’t a conference game.

2 guesses. Thought they could make more money in Charlottesville. Or UVA needed a hime game & nc state had already replaced it with another hime game.
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An article I just read said that they originally scheduled a nonconference “home and home”. But, the Charlottesville game of the home and home was converted to be a conference game due to the ACC switching to a 9 game schedule this year. It was that game that was then reassigned to Rio. Doesn’t look like it was ever supposed to be in Raleigh. And it is now a conference game.

Anyway, that’s the ACC for you, that conference can’t collapse soon enough. What a clown show.
 
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Do you really need to make college football an international game? Why would other countries show any interest especially in those two squads. When Notre Dame went to Dublin that makes some sense. I just don't think any lower tier school could carry that weight. I'm sure we sell a bunch of Bulldog Jerseys in Beijing and they are dying for us to come.
 
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Perd Hapley said:
An article I just read said that they originally scheduled a nonconference “home and home”. But, the Charlottesville game of the home and home was converted to be a conference game due to the ACC switching to a 9 game schedule this year. It was that game that was then reassigned to Rio. Doesn’t look like it was ever supposed to be in Raleigh. And it is now a conference game.

Anyway, that’s the ACC for you, that conference can’t collapse soon enough. What a clown show.
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I agree, I hate that it's just going to hang out there for another 5-6 years, or 10 at the worst. I want to go ahead and blow the dang thing up and see if the B2 just grow, or if the Big 12 takes them all. Maybe a little of both.
Funny how much King Jackie got right so long ago. He was off on the details (like the Big 12 faltering, when in reality it's the ACC), but overall it's just a split of FBS, I would imagine around 50/50.
 
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RocketDawg said:
Isn't the State/Ole Miss baseball game that's played in the Jackson area considered a non-conference game?
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That kind of stuff happens all the time….in a sport where you play a 56-game regular season, and conference / nonconference is nearly 50/50.

It makes much less sense when there’s only 12 regular season games and only 3 nonconference matchups per team. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in football before.
 
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vhdawg said:
Point of order.....at Tampa AND at Orlando

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Living in Lakeland during that time and went to all of those as I recall, certainly made it handy to see the Dogs play. Can't say I was super into following State at the time and all of the details of things but I remember thinking it was really strange that we were playing in Tampa. By the time Orlando rolled around I had heard about the concept of selling games.
 
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It kinda sucks because my kiddo was going to go as a member of the NC State Marching Band, but playing the game in Rio never did make much sense to me.

NC State played UVA as a non-conference game last year because both schools had early-season opponents cancel games, so they did it to fill the schedule. Not sure why they decided to make it a non-conf game this year, too.
 
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RocketDawg said:
I don't understand the rationale for doing that, especially for college teams. The NFL seems to be really going all-in for out of country games now.
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I suspect there will be a expansion in the NFL and the team overseas somewhere. Maybe in the Americas.
 
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GloryDawg said:
I suspect there will be an expansion in the NFL and the team overseas somewhere. Maybe in the Americas.
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I just don’t see it. These games do well on a couple times per year per country. But a full time team? No way. The travel would be a huge issue too. I think NFL is very happy with these one offs.
 
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patdog said:
We did. As well as played 3 straight years at Auburn. Thanks Larry.
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Ha! I didn’t remember the Auburn ones. Just utterly ridiculous. It was bad enough that right before that era us and OM played only 2 or 3 on campus. Most home games were in Jackson. But the condition of our on campus stadiums were straight out of 1918 so….
 
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vhdawg said:
Point of order.....at Tampa AND at Orlando

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I remember as a kid being curious about this, and wondering why we didn't play all our games at home like the other teams did. I had no concept at the time that the other schools were so much bigger and more powerful. Then King Jackie came in and shut that crap down, and I actually had a chance to grow up with some Mississippi State pride.

Little did I know I was witnessing the exception not the rule.
 
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patdog said:
We did. As well as played 3 straight years at Auburn. Thanks Larry.
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I always heard that Larry got snookered on that deal....Auburn AD said hey let's flip home-and-home and Larry said okay and then the next year they're at Auburn again and the Auburn AD says hey we're not going to flip this after all and we ended up playing three straight games at Auburn.
 
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vhdawg said:
I always heard that Larry got snookered on that deal....Auburn AD said hey let's flip home-and-home and Larry said okay and then the next year they're at Auburn again and the Auburn AD says hey we're not going to flip this after all and we ended up playing three straight games at Auburn.
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That pretty much the story as I understand it. Except it was initiated by Templeton.
 
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Duggar Hall Desk said:
It kinda sucks because my kiddo was going to go as a member of the NC State Marching Band, but playing the game in Rio never did make much sense to me.

NC State played UVA as a non-conference game last year because both schools had early-season opponents cancel games, so they did it to fill the schedule. Not sure why they decided to make it a non-conf game this year, too.
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It is a conference game this year. ACC went to 9-game schedule.
 
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