Jan
07
2016
Judging by CBSSportline’s college football “experts”, Clemson should just forfeit the National Championship game with Alabama, avoid the embarrassment and finish the year ranked #2. Alabama is a very good team, with an outstanding defense, but they are beatable. They lost to Ole Miss, nearly lost to Tennessee, and struggled in season ending games against …
Jan
06
2016
Monday night Clemson will be playing for the National Title against Alabama. Players like Deshaun Watson, Shaq Lawson, Wayne Gallman, and Mackensie Alexander are some of the recruits that have made the Tigers a National Title Contender. Clemson didn’t become a national championship caliber team overnight though. Mired in mediocrity, and a reputation for underachievement …
Jan
05
2016
Bowl season has come to an end, expect for two teams – Alabama and Clemson who will play for the College Football national title. How are the ACC Bloggers feeling about the end of football season for their teams. We have to start with Clemson blog RubbingtheRock who says the Tigers are on the …
Jan
04
2016
So I turn on ESPN to see a discussion of the National Title Championship. There aren’t a lot options here for pre-game analysis. You have FOX, but I won’t watch any network analysis that employs Clay Travis… period. That doesn’t mean ESPN is a shining star with their Title Talk. The first thing I see …
Jan
03
2016
It is the new year. Time to start setting yourself for the NCAA and conference tournaments! 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 …
Jan
02
2016
This past week I traveled down to the Orange Bowl as a Clemson Tiger fan. I went to the ACC Championship in Charlotte last year to root on Georgia Tech. One thing has become very apparent to me. The College Football Playoff isn’t expanding without a complete paradigm shift in how the college football post-season …
Jan
01
2016
In the one of most nauseating headlines I’ve ever seen on ESPN, the national title game between Alabama and Clemson is being called an “Glorified SEC Title Game”. I’m a little confused by this, because isn’t Clemson in the ACC? If Kentucky and North Carolina met for the national title in basketball would it be …
Jan
01
2016
It was odd that a Clemson team ranked #1 and 13-0 had so many doubters heading into their Orange Bowl National Semi-Final with Oklahoma. I wonder if many of these doubters really watched the Tigers this year. Well they probably realized now that Clemson is one of the two best teams in the country after …
Jan
01
2016
Was Florida State lacking motivation against Houston? Did they not respect Houston? It doesn’t matter. I don’t buy those kind excuses when you lose a bowl. If you get beat you get beat. Florida State flat got beat by the Houston Cougars today. Houston was better prepared, they executed better, and they were the better …
Dec
30
2015
When Bobby Petrino came back to Louisville, everyone agreed Petrino was very good coach. What we wondered is when would the Cardinals begin to take on the identity we expect from a Petrino coached team. You know what it looks like – creative offensive play calling, and really good quarterback play. They’ve been pretty good …
Dec
30
2015
Let’s not sugar coat this Belk Bowl loss for NC State. They were whooped up and down the field by Mississippi State Wednesday. I thought this would be difficult game for the Wolfpack to win, but I didn’t expect it to be so un-competitive. This program and their head coach Dave Doeren are at a …
Dec
29
2015
When you’re North Carolina the opportunity to be a great football team doesn’t come around often. Maybe there will be more opportunities in the future, but history says those chances will be limited. UNC had a chance Tuesday to be great, and they absolutely blew it. You wouldn’t have known the way UNC’s D was …
Dec
28
2015
Pittsburgh had a nice season in 2015. They won 8 games, and contended for an ACC Coastal Division Title late into the season, but Pat Narduzzi has a long way to go to change the losing culture that surrounds the Pitt program. Several times this past season, Pitt had opportunities to have a special season. …
Dec
27
2015
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. It is the last Bubble Analysis before the new year. Which teams are in good position heading into the new year and which …
Dec
26
2015
There wasn’t a whole lot to be gained program wise for Virginia Tech to beat a 6-6 Tulsa team in the Independence Bowl. A loss would have been embarrassing, but new coach Justin Fuente is on the way no matter what the result was. Bud Foster’s defense was shredded to pieces, and gave 52 points …
Dec
26
2015
I was prepared to be hard on Duke if they lost the Pinstripe Bowl to Indiana. After moving to respectability a few years ago, and 19 wins the last years Duke started have the look of program that might have hit a wall. Even during the improvement of the last several, the Blue Devils still …