Dec
31
2018
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) had an impromptu podcast to discuss all of the recent goings in the ACC. We are joined @ER Evan Roberts of redandwhitepodcast.com. Roberts is as knowledgeable an NC State as you’ll find, and we appreciate him joining. 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 …
Dec
30
2018
If you are a follow of the blog, you know we’ve tacked the progression of the ACC Network from the beginning. You also know ACC Network news comes in waves. Last week we told you that Verizon and Disney were having some hard discussions concerning their distribution agreements. As we told you then, and now correctly …
Dec
30
2018
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college football at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of the WEEK : What are the three biggest keys to Clemson beating Alabama? Game keys — we all know on a very general level what the biggest keys are to victory, but let’s assume all the obvious items such as …
Dec
29
2018
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 …
Dec
29
2018
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 …
Dec
28
2018
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 …
Dec
28
2018
We are a day away from the Semifinal games of the college football playoff. It is the end of the college football season. A very depressing day in my household. We have been seeing for the last few weeks that some people believe that the College Football Playoff is going to be expanded. When ESPN …
Dec
28
2018
Now, this post is not going to win me any admirers or fans, including one of the people who are responsible for this blog. However, I do feel the need to take Virginia Tech to task. Now, we all know that East Carolina University had cancelled the football game scheduled for September 15. The reason …
Dec
28
2018
Numbers aplenty explain Mack Brown luring Jay Bateman to leave Army for his newly assembled staff at North Carolina staff. But in college football, statistics are only half of story to grading a coach’s value. What about developing talent? What about recruiting? Those are parts to the full package, too, that define Bateman’s five seasons …
Dec
27
2018
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 …
Dec
27
2018
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 …
Dec
26
2018
Some information was just released on ESPN’s work to get the ACC Network into distribution… Blog contributor @JamesIV1978 brought this to my attention. @TalkinACCSports @hokiesmash_ASD here comes the run to see if the ACC Network will be profitable. This is the first salvo https://t.co/gNfEbNUOwl — James Cunningham (@JamesIV1978) December 26, 2018 Already there are some confusion by …
Dec
26
2018
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 …
Dec
26
2018
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 …
Dec
26
2018
For a couple of redshirt juniors that NFL scouts have bird-dogged the past two seasons, Duke’s Daniel Jones and Joe Gilles-Harris don’t sound like guys looking ahead to 2019 NFL Draft at the expense of their teammates’ bowl experience.. Jones, a third-year starting quarterback, and Giles-Harris, a third-year starting inside linebacker, both have endured enough …
Dec
24
2018
This is going to be a weekly article, where I seed the ACC teams and where I think they’d should be placed if the tournament started the same day as my posting. In my ranking system, any RPI top (100) win is a good win and any RPI top (50) obviously worth more. Any losses …