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It was a wild weekend in the ACC, but a couple of ACC Florida schools are feeling pretty good about what occurred. Let’s check in on them and other blogger happenings in the ACC. Let’s start with Florida State, who positioned themselves for a run at the national title game after getting tested by a …

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ACC Announces Gametimes & TV for Oct. 6 GREENSBORO, NC – The Atlantic Coast Conference Monday announced the following gametimes and networks for Saturday, Oct. 6. Boston College at Army, CBSCS, Noon (previously announced) Virginia Tech at North Carolina, ACC Network, 12:30 p.m. Virginia at Duke, RSN, 3 p.m. Georgia Tech at Clemson, ABC, ESPN …

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Up 24-10 6:50 left in the 2011 Sun Bowl, Georgia Tech gives up 2 fourth qtr TDs and loses to Utah in OT 30-27. Up 17-14 at Virginia Tech :44 seconds left in Blacksburg, Georgia Tech can’t hold the lead, the Hokies tie it up. The Yellow Jackets lose in OT 20-17. Up 36-29 with …

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The Good National Championship Contender?  Is it pre-mature to talk about Florida State as a national title contender, a true one? No not at all. Clemson scored 37 points and still lost by double digits. That’s the scary part about Florida State. The defense won’t give up 37 points to anyone else they face this …

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Just a short post tonight… This Clemson\Florida State game has received wall to wall sports coverage this week. There have been far more stories on this game that Michigan\Notre Dame or Oklahoma\Kansas St. Funny what a matchup of a couple of top 10 teams will do.  I haven’t yet given my thoughts on what I think …

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Understandably the focus of this week in the ACC is a top 10 matchup between Florida State and Clemson. The game has been hyped across the country, Gameday will there. It’s great for those programs and great for the ACC to have such a high profile game. I’ve always thought the perception of a conference isn’t …

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Not much going on in the ACC this past week. Just a few things out there… You have the ACC’s biggest regular season game of the year with Clemson and FSU squaring off. Notre Dame is joining the ACC and the ACC’s Orange Bowl opponent is just about inked from a pool of teams from …

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Part of the perception of a conference in football is not only OOC results, but also inter-conference games. Let’s be honest there haven’t been alot of ACC football games that had national championship ramifications. I thought there could be a nice round robin set of high profile games between Clemson, Virginia Tech, and Florida State, …

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The Good ESPN Gameday to the ACC With upsets to USC and Michigan St. the ACC will feature it’s first top 10 matchup since 2007 between Florida State and Clemson. Florida St. plastered Wake Forest 52-0 and Clemson pushed Furman aside 41-7. It will be the ACC’s showcase game of the year and ESPN’s Gameday …

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It wasn’t but two weeks ago I was writing that neutral site games were the wave of the future due to conferences adopting the 9 game conference schedule. Things can quickly change. When the ACC and Notre Dame agreed to the Irish joining the ACC in all sports but football, it was a game changer. Notre Dame treasures it’s independence, but …

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Big news today for the ACC and Notre Dame… The Fighting Irish are joining in all sports expect football. The Irish will play 5 games against ACC opponents. Here’s is my quick gut reaction to the news. I am cautiously for the move. It is obvious it would have been better if Notre Dame had …

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Two weeks into the season and how are the ACC Blogger’s seeing the season shaping up? As I wrote yesterday on my blog, the ACC is off to a respectable non-conference start to football season. It seems others are starting to take notice. Florida State blog Tomahawknation wrote “ACC Meeting expectations in 2012”.   This wasn’t from …

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The Good: Slowly Gaining Respect. Let’s face it the ACC has a long way to go before changing their national football perception. Years of poor performances in BCS games, and the lack of a nationally elite team for over decade will do that. With that said, there are subtle signs the tide may be slowly …

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Just a short post for tonight… Last week with Clemson playing Auburn and NC State battling Tennessee, you may have thought that they were the only big out of conference games for the ACC in the early part of the season. Not so Saturday has several nice matchups of ACC teams taking on good OOC …

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