I hate giving something so impossibly dumb publicity, but sometimes you just have to call it out.
ESPN College Football analyst Heather Dinich made this statement during a preview of the Clemson NC State game.
.@CFBHeather on Clemson’s playoff hopes:
“If they don’t win [this weekend], they’re going to be hanging from a cliff as far as the playoff is concerned, and so is the entire ACC.” pic.twitter.com/mtzCTrho6R
— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) September 28, 2022
I’ll be honest I’ve never been a Dinich fan. I was glad when she stopped covering the ACC and went national. I simply never thought she knew the conference well. It was so bad, I stopped reading ESPN’s coverage of the ACC for a while. Her replacements Andrea Adelson and David Hale in my opinion do a much better job.
Today’s comment again showed her lack of knowledge of the conference, specifically NC State.
At #10 NC State is in the perfect position to be playoff contender if they knock off Clemson. In the last few years, a Clemson loss would nearly doom the ACC’s playoff hopes. That’s not the case this year. The Wolfpack beat Clemson, and they are ranked 5-7 when the next polls come out.
Then they would face a likely ranked FSU team, that beat LSU. Then they’d play a ranked 5-0 Syracuse. Then a game with possibly ranked Wake Forest and likely bowl team UNC. Then there’s a good chance they’ll get a ranked team in the ACC Championship game.
NC State already owns a win over Texas Tech, who have 2 wins over teams that were ranked when they played them, Houston and Texas.
That’s a lot of quality wins, and I guarantee if NC State runs the table they are in the playoffs.
Catch up Dinich it’s 2022.
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DionJag says:
September 29, 2022 at 9:27 am (UTC -4)
Similarly, if Pitt runs the remaining table and wins the ACC championship, I believe they would make the Playoffs. Their only loss was to top 10 Tennessee in overtime after Pitt’s starting qb was injured and the backup qb had to play on a sprained ankle. Although NCS’s OOC is rather weak (this is not your father’s ND team this year), an undefeated NCS would have even a better chance at the playoffs if they ran the table. So Heather is biased to the existing “ACC is weak other than Clemson” theory that other conference fans want to believe. ACC teams have to win OOC games to overcome that theory.