As usual, the media tried to tear down the ACC over a couple of results.
I hate to pick on Andrea Adelson because she really does an excellent job covering the ACC, but the tweet below is the kind of thing the media does just to create a negative narrative.
We legitimately might see an ACC team with 8 turnovers in consecutive weeks #goacc
— Andrea Adelson (@aadelsonESPN) October 29, 2022
Um – the ACC teams that committed 8 turnovers occurred against the ACC teams they played.
That means ACC teams in consecutive weeks “FORCED” 8 turnovers.
Maybe Duke and Louisville just played great defense the past two weekends. Why can’t that be the narrative?
There’s been a lot made of #10 Wake Forest losing 48-21 to an unranked Louisville.
Did we forget Louisville is in the ACC? The same Louisville team that has a win over UCF who defeated top 20 Cincinnati Saturday and sits 6-2. Louisville is finally becoming the team some thought they were capable of being.
South Carolina got ranked in the top 25 after beating a trash Texas A&M team last weekend, and people called in a quality win. Texas A&M is 3-5 by the way with that home loss to App State.
Let’s talk about some of the positive realities of this weekend, not the media narrative.
NC State found their QB of the future in MJ Morris. Down 21-3 freshman QB MJ Morris looks like a star in the making guiding the Wolfpack to the comeback. The Wolfpack move to 6-2 with a win at East Carolina who just won at BYU which is never easy.
North Carolina moved to 7-1. Many people were skeptical of the Tar Heels Top 25 ranking. The Heels got down 24-14 to Pitt, and those critics looked like they might be right. Then the switch went off for the Heels. They score 28 unanswered against Pitt and hit a gear that good football teams do against a team they are favored against. The defense may not be great, but it isn’t a liability.
It’s getting better, and the Heels appear more and more like a team that will enter the ACCCG with 10 or more wins.
Notre Dame beat Syracuse. Ok, it would have been good if Syracuse had defeated the Irish, but does it matter in the end?
Any ACC observer of Syracuse knew they were on borrowed time, and physically they just couldn’t match up with Notre Dame.
Clemson goes to Notre Dame anyways in a game they need to win. Today’s result doesn’t change that.
When the playoff rankings come out this week the ACC will still have at least 4 teams ranked and possibly 5, but sure let’s keep spinning the negative.
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