Dec
05
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Please Follow him follow on twitter. Dabo Swinney made Clemson football what it is today, but he couldn’t have done it without Brent Venables. Every Clemson fan remembers the 2012 Orange Bowl. As much as Tiger fans would love to forget it, that game turned out to be a blessing, because …
Sep
19
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. Clemson scored just three points against Georgia, but it was easy to think that in a Week 1 game, a defense as great as Georgia’s was able to expose Clemson’s transition at quarterback, the loss of Travis Etienne, and the …
Sep
08
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Give him a follow on twitter. Remember this about Scott Satterfield, more than the fact that his Louisville team looked inept and impotent in a terrible season-opening game against Ole Miss on Labor Day night in Atlanta: He flirted with another job IN THE MIDDLE OF A BAD SEASON AT …
Aug
07
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. Last year, Clemson’s receivers weren’t overwhelmingly awesome. They weren’t terrible, but Clemson fans and analysts have a right to expect nothing less than the very best. Justyn Ross’s injury had a lot to do with that reality. Ross’s injury removed …
Jul
25
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. Are you going crazy from trying to keep track of every possible realignment scenario? It is genuinely overwhelming right now to comprehend the chaos and disorder in the college sports landscape. We have finally arrived at a point where a …
Apr
30
2021
Brandon Chubb was an All-ACC linebacker at Wake Forest. The brother of NFL star and ACC great Bradley Chubb, who used North Carolina State as a launching pad for a pro career, faced the challenges of being a collegiate athlete. He now wants to pass along his wisdom and expertise to today’s college athletes. Matt …
Apr
23
2021
Author : our esteemed friend and college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. You have lived long enough (yes, even if you are only 15 years old) to have heard people tell you, “You REALLY have to listen to this program,” or “You REALLY need to see this video.” …
Dec
17
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. The ACC Question of the week is back with our esteemed friend and college football writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. You can feel and sense the climate of doubt and skepticism surrounding the Notre Dame Fighting Irish this week. The Clemson Tigers are a …
Nov
10
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. The ACC Question of the week is back with our esteemed friend and college football writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. Every game in a precarious college football season carries with it a certain degree of risk. The Clemson Tigers have lost regular-season games in …
Nov
07
2020
Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. Just a quick blog post here for Saturday night. Site friend, @RBrentBlevins, who was a guest on our podcast (multiple occasions) had this to say about the Hokies: Just a gentle reminder that Virginia Tech is 17-18 against FBS teams since November 2017. Last years recruiting …
Nov
01
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. The ACC Question of the week is back with our esteemed friend and college football writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. It’s time for the 2020 ACC game of the year. The fact that Trevor Lawrence — one of the ACC’s two best players — …
Jul
29
2020
The Atlantic Coast Conference has released its adjusted schedule plan — 10 conference games, one nonconference game — and its actual 10-game league slate: The 2020 Football Schedule Model has been announced. More info: https://t.co/D6iCbHIY1x pic.twitter.com/dfhTqr4YTd — ACC Football (@ACCFootball) July 29, 2020 The Notre Dame piece of the puzzle — the Irish being allowed …
Jul
22
2020
We might have college football this fall. We might not. If we do, however, plans ought to be in place to adjust to an anything-but-normal reality. I give you the Syracuse Orange football program, the one ACC football program whose normal home games are played indoors, in the Carrier Dome. Very simply, Syracuse shouldn’t play …
Jul
10
2020
As the editor of the USC Trojans Wire site, I have written a lot about COVID-19 and college football in recent days and over the past few months in PandemicWorld, this bizarre realm we are all forced to live in. I have written dozens of columns, but they all flow into a few central points: …
Apr
15
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of WEEK : Who was the best ACC football player of the past decade? Jameis Winston and Lamar Jackson, unlike Deshaun Watson, won the Heisman Trophy this past decade… but if we are going to …
Feb
05
2020
Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of WEEK : Who was single-season ACC football team of the past decade? I was asked by the publishers of All Sports Discussion to provide my answer on the best single-season ACC football team of hte past decade. Strong, credible …