I was looking over some football stats, trying to determine which ACC school has the greatest home field advantage. Based on my reasoning, UVA enjoys that position.
For ACC teams with their current head coaches, I compared winning percentages at home and on the road both for all games and just for league games. And under Coach Groh, the Cavs are more than twice as likely to win at home as on the road. That means that Scott Stadium is truly one of the underappreciated home fields, or Al Groh is extremely bad at motivating his tropps on the road.
Hmmm, I wonder how of that is a higher percentage of pattsies being scheduled for home games? Non-league, of course.
in 2001 there were 3 home games: Richmond, Penn State, and Virginia Tech — all wins
in 2002 South Carolina and Akron were beaten at home, and there were losses to VT and Penn State on the road.
In 2003, Troy State and VT were beaten at home. Western Michigan was a road win, and South Carolina was a road loss.
In 2004, the patsies showed up. Akron and Syracuse were home wins, Temple was a road win.
In 2005, Temple and W Michigan were home wins, while Syracuse was a road win.
In 2006, Pitt and ECU were road losses. Wyoming was a home win and W Michigan was a home loss.