Jan
07
2017
Earlier today I wrote the 3 reasons why Clemson would beat Alabama, but this is Alabama. They are the current standard in college football. What are the 3 reasons they will be hoisting up another national championship trophy? 1) Nick Saban A couple of years ago after Urban Meyer and Ohio State beat Alabama and …
Jan
07
2017
Some people are calling this year’s Alabama team Nick Saban’s best, but don’t worry Clemson fans I’m going to give you three reasons why the Tigers will beat Alabama. 1) Deshaun Watson Jalen Hurts is going to win a national title at Alabama, but in this game the difference between Hurts and Watson is an …
Jan
05
2017
Followers of this blog know we were there when ACC football was a national punchline. Remember this article back from early 2012, when we lamented the ACC embarrassing itself during bowl season? You don’t have to root for your conference brethren to do well out of conference, but the ACC football was struggling so badly that …
Jan
04
2017
I saw this posting from from the blog SaturdayDownSouth “Conference affiliation aside, Dabo Swinney built an SEC-like Clemson team”. Now SaturdayDownSouth is a fine blog. They write a lot of good articles, but on this I completely disagree. Clemson is most definitely not an SEC like team. In fact they are the epitome of the new …
Jan
03
2017
What do the ACC Bloggers have for us? I think we have some bowl game discussion here. Clemson and Alabama are set to play for the national title, and Clemson blog RubbingtheRock starts off the previews by comparing the offenses. Was the ACC this year’s best football conference? ACC Blog ACCPrescription says the ACC …
Jan
03
2017
To start the new year out right, I’m setting up a separate Twitter account for myself – you can check out @AllSportsDACC material from me at @HokieSmash_ASD. We’d really appreciate the follow – and we will reciprocate. Thanks much and Happy New Year!! Matthew
Jan
02
2017
This is going to be a weekly article, where I seed the ACC teams and where I think they’d should be placed if the tournament started the same day as my posting. In my ranking system, any RPI top (100) win is a good win and any RPI top (50) obviously worth more. Any losses …
Jan
01
2017
Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. How bad was Ohio State’s 31-0 loss to Clemson in the national College Football Playoff semifinal? Historically bad for Urban Meyer – and we mean really bad: If it holds, Clemson’s 31-point margin would make this the worst loss of Urban Meyer’s head coaching career (194 games). …