All Sports Discussion

It’s hard to be too critical of a program that’s won 18 games the last two years. If you are Clemson or Alabama, then maybe you complain. If you are NC State that means you are mostly beating the teams you should beat. That said there is still an emptiness to the Wolfpack’s 9-4 year. …

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Pittsburgh won the Coastal Division and went 6-2 in the ACC. They lost 7 games including their last 3 and got blown out by Penn State, UCF, and Clemson. They blew a 4th quarter lead in the Sun Bowl to Stanford to lose 14-13. For almost every ACC team, there’s a line that said we’re happy with or not with our year. Pittsburgh more than any other ACC team it’s hard to decide exactly how they should feel about the 2018 season. …

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It’s been a rough season at Virginia Tech – attrition, injuries, young and inexperienced on defense. There have been historically bad home losses too, but with recent wins over Virginia and Marshall, Virginia Tech got bowl eligible. They had a chance to salvage something out of the season. After a 35-31 loss to Cincinnati, the Hokies still have their bowl streak and winning streak over Virginia intact. That’s all after their first losing season (6-7) in 25 years. If you are Hokie fan you have to be frustrated by Justin Fuente’s two …

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@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) had an impromptu podcast to discuss all of the recent goings in the ACC. We are joined @ER Evan Roberts of redandwhitepodcast.com.  Roberts is as knowledgeable an NC State as you’ll find, and we appreciate him joining.  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 …

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A few years ago, Clemson was chasing Florida State in the ACC. Then it was Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State and Florida State as college football’s elite programs. Now it’s Clemson and their only true peer Alabama. The Tigers faced a Notre Dame team that swore it was different from it’s predecessors. This was the Irish …

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I’ll be honest. I didn’t think the Belk Bowl was a good matchup for Virginia. The Hoos were coming off 2 heartbreaking OT losses, including to arch-rival Virginia Tech. South Carolina had just shredded an elite Clemson defense to pieces, and their QB Jake Bentley looked like a future NFL QB. The game was just …

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During the Syracuse vs West Virginia bowl game all we heard from the announcers was about Will Grier not playing QB for WVU. I won’t argue it was a factor, but let’s not forget Syracuse was without an All-ACC defensive lineman Alton Robinson and another on their two-deep Mckinley Williams. If you are discounting the …

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Thank goodness Mark Richt has 2 straight wins over Florida State because since a regular season loss to Pittsburgh to end the 2017 regular season it’s just gone downhill for Miami. Since a 10-1 2017 start Miami, is 4-9 against against Power 5 opponents.That’s not just unacceptable at Miami, that’s unacceptable anywhere. In year 3 …

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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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