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Sometimes there are bad 8-5 seasons. Sometimes they are good 8-5 seasons, and sometimes an 8-5 season could be considered almost great. I would call David Cutcliffe leading Duke to an 8-5 year arguably his best coached season at Duke. Looking back on the schedule it was a very difficult one – A 11 win …

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It shouldn’t have ended this way for future HOF coach Paul Johnson, but it did. Georgia Tech was poorly prepared, played sloppy, and without any urgency in Paul Johnson’s final game as head coach. Minnesota is not a very good team. The Gophers were a wildly inconsistent 6-6 team. Today they were better, far better …

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Boston College jumped out to a 7-0 lead on Boise State, then due to lightening the First Responder Bowl delayed and then cancelled the game. That’s amateur hour organization from that bowl. They could read a weather forecast to cancel  the game for the rest of Wednesday, but couldn’t see the weather coming yesterday and …

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Sitting at 4-6, with 3 bowl teams left on the schedule and two of them on the road, it looked like Wake Forest’s 2 year bowl streak was coming to an end. Wake Forest’s defense had given up more than 35 points in seven straight games. Dave Clawson had worked wonders making Wake Forest competitive …

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Are you looking to cut the cord or just lower your cable bill? ACCPrescription shares the costs of several viewing packages   to help make your decisions. RubbingtheRock has their takeaways from another great signing day for Clemson. Were you wondering how good NC State basketball was? Wonder no more as the Wolfpack knocked off top 10 …

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We have to get used to early signing day in college football. So some schools can still pull things together by February, but have our winners and losers for the December 19 signing day. Here are the ACC recruiting rankings from the 247 and Rivals. 247 ACC Rankings Rivals ACC Rankings Winners Clemson Another consensus …

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  @Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) are joined by one of very favorite guests  -> @MattZemek. Give him a twitter follow and check out his additional musings on college football at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  You can also find this most recent podcast and all our other podcasts on ITUNES at 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=stpr To listen go …

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Just a quick post for tonight. ESPN picks the winner of each bowl game in this piece.  The ACC is picked only to win 3 of their games. Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, and Clemson. Yeesh… Let’s hope bowl season goes better than that for the conference we follow here. Make sure you follow the All …

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The AP recently released their college football All-American teams.  5 ACC players made the list. Recently some Freshman All-American teams were released too. These are your future ACC stars. Which ACC players made the list of the 247 Freshman All-American team or the USA Today Freshman All-American team  QB –Trevor Lawrence, Clemson WR – Justyn Ross, Clemson OL – Christian Darrisaw, …

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FromtheRumbleSeat introduces us to Georgia Tech’s new football coach Geoff Collins.  CardChronicle tells us about Louisville football Scott Satterfield visiting numerous local Louisville High Schools – start building those relationships coach! Need a realignment fix? It’s always interesting to think of future scenarios. ACCPrescription has their thoughts on the next round of realignment possibilities. RubbingtheRock …

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Readers of the blog and podcast listeners know our good friend @sportsbroad (Emily Brand). She’s started a GoFundMe page to send underprivileged kids to the Quick Lane Bowl. She is sending tickets through Georgia Tech. It’s a great way to support Georgia Tech and good cause. If you aren’t a Georgia Tech fan, but a fan of …

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