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It’s been an uneven early start for ACC Basketball. It certainly hasn’t been a vintage stuff, and not what we expect from the conference. With s much player turnover it wasn’t that unexpected though. The conference is still a respectable 4th in terms of conference RPI.  Saturday brought much needed clarity of who are the …

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Boston College was the latest ACC team to flop in their bowl game after going down 38-6 to Cincinnati. There will be plenty of time to discuss the ACC’s disappointing 4-6 bowl season. Clemson may yet still give the ACC one more win the National Title game, but the conference will still finish under .500 …

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15 seconds is all that stood between Virginia Tech and a 9 win, top 25 season. There’d also be an an off-season of optimism plus the added bonus of sending out coaching legend Bud Foster a winner in his final game as DC. Then it all fell apart against an average Kentucky team, with a …

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There wasn’t anyone that thought Mike Novell wasn’t walking into a major rebuild at Florida State. In the last three seasons Florida State football has an 18-20 record. That includes back to back to losing seasons in 2018 and 2019. Tuesday’s 20-14 six turnover bowl loss to Arizona State just further is a microcosm of …

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Virginia was a huge underdog against Florida in the Orange Bowl. Many did not give them much of a chance to compete with a top 10 Florida team. Compete and compete hard is exactly what they did. The Virginia coaching schemed around the team’s deficiencies and injuries in the secondary as best they could. It …

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You better get Louisville now, because they are coming. Following a nightmare 2018 season, that as we’ve said several times was among the very worst in ACC history, Louisville roared back into relevance with a remarkable 8-5 season that just about nobody saw coming. You won’t find many people that didn’t think Scott Satterfield wasn’t …

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Did you know Ohio State has never beat Clemson in their history as a college football program? 0-4. This one kind of summarizes the conspiracy theories. My favorite officiating conspiracy theories from last night: SEC officials wanted a Southern team in the title game. LSU/Burrow didn’t want to play Ohio State, called in a favor. …

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Wake Forest has graduated from where 7 or 8 win seasons are considered really good seasons. Three straight bowl wins and three straight seasons of 7-8 wins had Wake Forest ready in 2019 to have that special 9-10 win top 25 season. At 7-1 and ranked in the top 20, that special season was right …

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    Mack Brown inherited a UNC team that won 5 games the last two years, and just 2 ACC wins. Fast forward to the 2019 season, and the Tar Heels doubled their ACC win total, and finished the season with 3 straight wins. The final record was a modest 7-6 (4-4) record, but the …

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Pitt entered the Quick Lane Bowl as a double digit bowl favorite vs an Eastern Michigan team that hadn’t won bowl game in over 30 years. Eastern Michigan went 6-6 and 3-5 in the MAC this year. Is was arguably the best matchup any ACC team had in their bowl game this year. For Eastern …

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  Manny Diaz has been at Miami for one season, and he enters the 2020 already in trouble. Don’t think for a minute he’s safe either. When Arkansas and Florida State fired their coaches Chad Morris and Willie Taggart less than 2 years into their tenures, there no reason Miami may not do the same. …

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@Hokiesmash_ASD  and I (@TalkinACCSports ) review the ACC Football regular season and preview  ACC Bowl season with @mattzemek. We really appreciate college football writer @mattzemek for joining us. He contributes to this site as well as several others! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rwradios-acc-weekly-podcast/id831843856?t=2. We are also now available on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/httpwwwtalkshoecomtalkshoewebtalkcastjspmasterid130024cmdtc/the-acc-weekly-podcast?refid=stpr0 We are also now available on PodBean! https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/p573j-6e69d/The-ACC-Weekly-Podcast To …

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Nearly the entire BCS era was a disaster for ACC football. So much so, that it nearly broke the conference apart at the beginning of the decade. Then the upward football trend started during the 4-2 2012 Bowl season where Florida State won an Orange Bowl, Clemson beat a top 10 LSU team, and Georgia …

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