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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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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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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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