A Game of Inches

That's a phrase you often hear in sports, that it's a game of inches. Inches short of a first down, or a throw nips a runner at first by inches.

Games are also decided by percentage points and decimal points. Take the race for the ACC record for career completion percentage.

Entering the Georgia Tech game this week, Wake's Riley Skinner has completed 824 of 1,231 career passes. That is a completion percentage of .66937.

Virginia's Matt Schaub is the current ACC record holder for career completion percentage. He was successful on 716 of 1,069 pass attempts during his career as a Cavalier from 2000-03. That is a completion percentage of .66978.

So, with three regular season games remaining, Skinner trails Schaub by .0004. In layman's terms, that's four 10,000ths of a point.