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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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The first week of college football is in the books. It was a mixed bag for the ACC. Clemson took care of the Auburn Tigers in the Georgia Dome. Virginia Tech got a leg up in the ACC Coastal with a win over Georgia Tech. The downside was NC State. The Wolfpack were a big …

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Week 1 in the ACC is the books, so that means a return to weekly series the Good, the Bad and the Ugly in the ACC. The Good: What Orange Bowl?  The Clemson Tigers sent several messages in week 1, but the most important one was the Orange Bowl debacle is history. When you beat …

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There was something I ran across earlier this weekend that I wanted to talk about. There’s been concern with several conferences upcoming 9 game conference schedules, that some teams will lose flexibility in scheduling OOC opponents. I believe most if not all major conferences will end up with this. In particular in the ACC schools like Georgia …

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Let me go all Clemson fan on you for a minute. I have this Clemson shirt with a Danny Ford signature. My wife and I gave it to my Father in Law but it was too big for him. I ended up with the shirt and now the shirt has gone 9-0 in Clemson events …

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A few days I wrote that NC State could make statement Friday against Tennessee.  Unfortunately for the Wolfpack, they made the wrong kind statement in a 35-21 to Tennessee loss that wasn’t that close. Sure the defeat looks bad for the ACC. The Wolfpack were considered a darkhorse in the ACC Atlantic, but lets not get …

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