May
22
2023
With a new quarterback under center for the Pitt Panthers the usually over-surprising program should make some noise in the ACC in 2023 with Phil Jurkovec under center. Jurkovec transferred into the Pitt program from Boston College and should have better success this year with the Panthers than he did last year with the Eagles …
Oct
04
2022
Author @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . In 2023, we won’t have ACC Coastal chaos. We will just have the top two teams — probably in the Atlantic — playing in the ACC Championship Game. While a lot of national college football writers might have a romantic attachment to the ACC WHEEL… OF… DESTINYYYYYY!, the reality about Coastal chaos and seven …
Sep
29
2022
Author @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . This is it. This is the moment North Carolina State fans have waited for. College GameDay. The primetime treatment. The national centerpiece game. Unbeaten Clemson is standing in the way. On the road. Wake Forest has lost. Miami and the rest of the ACC Coastal are a mess. If North Carolina State wins this …
Jan
23
2022
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Please Follow him follow on twitter. Recently we a post that favored the ACC’s playoff stance. Here is another perspective on the topic… Just over a week ago, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips articulated the ACC’s opposition to the expansion of the College Football Playoff. To be clear, this isn’t a stance …
Nov
16
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Please Follow him follow on twitter. This coaching carousel cycle has already been different from most. For one thing, a blue-blood program — USC — fired its coach after Week 2. That’s not normal. That in itself started the 2021 carousel in a unique and unexpected way. Yet, it was only …
Oct
17
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Please Follow him follow on twitter. Justin Fuente had one more chance, one last chance, to save this season and create a badly-needed turnaround at Virginia Tech. If his team could have beaten the Pittsburgh Panthers on Saturday, Fuente would have been in position to win the ACC Coastal Division championship …
Oct
14
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. The Wake Forest Demon Deacons are 6-0 in football for the first time since 1944. That’s how impressive Dave Clawson’s body of work has been this season, and that’s how rare the Deacs have tasted gridiron success at the highest …
Oct
13
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. The Pittsburgh Panthers have won the ACC Coastal Division before, in 2018, but they were 7-5. They got crushed in the ACC Championship Game. They lost their bowl game. They finished 7-7, hardly a team which will be remembered as …
Oct
12
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. The North Carolina State Wolfpack, after a much-needed week of rest, return to the gridiron this week to face Boston College in Chestnut Hill. This game begins a journey which is obviously important because the Wolfpack have a legitimate shot …
Sep
24
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. “If not us, who? If not now, when?” That familiar pair of questions sums up the moment facing North Carolina State football and its head coach, Dave Doeren. North Carolina State should have beaten Clemson in 2016, and to be …
Sep
22
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. Scott Satterfield of Louisville cooled off his hot seat in Week 3 of the college football season, but elsewhere in the ACC, coaching hot seats became crackling fires of chaos and discontent. Mike Norvell is in real trouble at …
Sep
19
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. Clemson scored just three points against Georgia, but it was easy to think that in a Week 1 game, a defense as great as Georgia’s was able to expose Clemson’s transition at quarterback, the loss of Travis Etienne, and the …
Sep
12
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. This was painfully familiar to North Carolina State fans. They have lived through this broken record, this old and sad movie, this Groundhog Day nightmare, far too many times. It isn’t getting old. It got old a long time ago. …
Aug
31
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. The roots of the pandemic, and the many strange aspects of a 2020 season unlike any other in college football history, form a significant part of the backdrop as the Clemson Tigers prepare to meet the Georgia Bulldogs Saturday night …
Aug
22
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. There are plenty of good candidates for the must-see offensive player of the year in ACC football, but the nuance about “must-see” is that it is more subjective, whereas the “best” or “most important” player is (while somewhat subjective) a …
Aug
08
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. Bobby Bowden, one of the greatest college football coaches who ever lived, died Sunday at age 91. Remembrances and tributes will continue to roll in, and every Florida State game this season will bring forth at least one Bowden …