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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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With the early signing day on December 18, more than 80% of a program’s class will get signed this Wednesday. Recruiting rankings aren’t the ultimate decider of how a team will do in the future, but if you don’t think they matter then you haven’t followed college football. The best teams far more often than …

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Part of Dabo Swinney’s coaching repertoire  is his ability to motivate. He’ll use any perceived slight to his Clemson program as a motivational tool.  Clemson fans will call it genius, his critics will call it overdone and annoying. Whatever it is, it works. This week Swinney gained several more motivational slights that he can use …

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  @Hokiesmash_ASD  and I (@TalkinACCSports ) review the ACC Football regular season and preview  ACC Bowl season with @TerryPJohnson. We really appreciate college football writer @TerryPJohnson for joining us. 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 listen go here – https://www.talkshoe.com/episode/7942931 In this order, these …

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1. Louisville (10-1, 2-0) Louisville lost to Texas Tech, but who in the ACC doesn’t have at least one head scratching loss? This is still the conferences’s most complete team. 2. Virginia (8-1, 2-0) Virginia can go into scoring funks, but as long as they play defense they’ll be very good. 3. Duke (9-1, 1-0) …

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ESPN recently released their 150 Greatest College Football Coaches of all time. Check out the full list. Where do the ACC coaches, and coaches of current ACC programs land? 8. Bobby Bowden, 377-129-4 Howard College (1959-62; 31-6), West Virginia (1970-75; 42-26) and Florida State (1976-2009; 304-97-4) When Bowden arrived at Florida State, it was a midsize …

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