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A month ago Florida State entered the season as a national title contender. Even after the 24-7 loss to Alabama the Noles playoff hopes were not completely dashed. QB Deondre Francois suffered a season ending injury, a hurricane disjointed the schedule, and FSU went into their game with NC State having not played in a month. …

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Each football weekend, I give you my reaction to handful of ACC games. I very rarely comment on games that I didn’t watch a good a portion of. Let me just say I wasn’t able to watch, but the final minutes of Virginia vs Boise State. I still had to write a game reaction, because …

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It’s been awhile since we’ve done an Around the ACC Blogosphere, so let’s get right into it. ChopChat takes a look at what the expectations are for Florida State for the rest of the football after their long layoff.  The good folks at ACCNation make their picks this week for games featuring an ACC team.  …

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While the playoff committee doesn’t rank the power 5 conference, there is no way conference strength – which means OOC results doesnt figure in to a committee members thought process. Let me point out on my philosophy on these rankings – your most recent  OOC results count a lot, and you’ll see me reference that …

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@Hokiesmash_ASD and @TalkinACCSports take a look back at week 3 and preview week 4 in ACC football in this podcast. We were happy to be joined by AP SportsWriter @ahammsportsgeek (Andrew Hammond). Andrew’s work can be also be found @FanSided and @SaturdayBlitz. We highly recommend that you  check it out.  You can also find this most recent podcast and all our other podcasts on …

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All I could think of as I was watching Clemson flatten Louisville was this team might be better than last year’s national championship team. That is bad news for the rest of the ACC and the rest of the country. Clemson was Louisville’s Super Bowl this year. It was their biggest home game of the …

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Duke played a sloppy game today against a bad Baylor team. They won 34-20, and moved to 3-0. Daniel Jones made some uncharacteristic mistakes at QB, and the secondary gave up a couple long TD passes. You never really felt Baylor would win the game though. A win is a win. They took care of …

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I’m just going to leave this right here. Turn down the ACCDN video on the sidebar and take a listen to below from some 40 years. ago.   Make sure you follow the All Sports Discussion Twitter account at @AllSportsDACC and please like our Facebook Page  

Quick tell me how many ACC vs ACC Matchups have been ESPN Gameday Matchups the last 10 years that weren’t Florida State vs Miami ( A historically great rivalry ) or Florida State vs Clemson ( the best college football rivalry of the last 5 years )? October 3, 2009 – Florida State vs Boston …

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@Hokiesmash_ASD and @TalkinACCSports (me) are back at it with our football podcasts. We are joined by @techlunchpaild (Tim Thomas) of the excellent Virginia Tech site http://techlunchpail.com/. It was great having @techlunchpaild on the show.  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 Stiticher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/httpwwwtalkshoecomtalkshoewebtalkcastjspmasterid130024cmdtc/the-acc-weekly-podcast?refid=stpr In this order, these …

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It’s become a yearly tradition here on the blog. We get a good laugh at how inaccurate ESPN’s FPI is as predictor and actual rankings system. We laughed in 2015 and we laughed in 2016.  Let’s laugh again in 2017, as Ohio State who I’d personally ranked around 12 or 13, are the number 1 team …

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While the playoff committee doesn’t rank the power 5 conference, there is no way conference strength – which means OOC results doesnt figure in to a committee members thought process. Let me point out on my philosophy on these rankings – your most recent  OOC results count a lot, and you’ll see me reference that …

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