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Category Archive: College Football

Feb
20
2025

Was the ACC more valuable to ESPN than Major League Baseball or Formula 1?

The ACC’s media rights deal with ESPN has been harshly criticized. That assessment is deserved too. The ACC’s base deal is the lowest among the power 4. While the ACC Network is a massive success, the base deal is the primary reason why Clemson and FSU currently have lawsuits against the conference. Let’s get that …

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Feb
12
2025

The ACC middle tier brands could hold conference’s future in their hands.

There is a bit of misconception that the ACC’s future lies in the hands of the Florida States and Clemsons. Well, that’s only partially true given recent events. It’s been over a year since Florida State started litigation against the ACC, and nearly a year since Clemson followed. Legally speaking it seems we are barely …

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Feb
06
2025

Five Things I don’t like about the 2025 ACC Football Schedule

The 2025 ACC Football schedule was released a couple of weeks back. As we do each year, we will tell you what we like about it, and later what we don’t like about the schedule. Here’s what we like about the schedule. Georgia Tech and Louisville playing conference games before in-state rivals.  Georgia Tech and …

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Jan
31
2025

More Details emerge from ESPN ACC extension of media deal.

Yesterday critics of the ESPN ACC extension assumed that payouts to the ACC would not increase. We suggested that they might.  That said additional games with Notre Dame with the bigger ACC Football schools would be something ESPN may be willing pay to for, and that could create additional revenue for those ACC brands.  It …

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Jan
30
2025

ESPN picks opts-in to extend ACC Media Deal and what it might mean.

Thursday ESPN opted in to extend their media rights deal with the ACC. If you enjoy following random accounts on X, this may have surprised you. If you prefer to pay attention to actual observers of the ACC, we told you this would happen and why back in September of 2024.  The real question is …

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Jan
29
2025

ACC Media Deal to End in 2031 instead of 2036?

If a random X account says something about ACC realignment, the ACC Media Deals, or the lawsuits I ignore it. It’s just easier that way because the vast majority of it is just noise. Now if a direct quote comes out from a reliable source, then that catches my attention. Ross Dellenger of Yahoo.com has …

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Jan
28
2025

Five Things I like about the 2025 ACC Football Schedule

The 2025 ACC Football schedule was released yesterday. As we do each year, we will tell you what we like about it, and later what we don’t like about the schedule. Georgia Tech vs Georgia – November 28, 2025 Last year’s Georgia Tech vs Georgia game was the highest-rated regular season matchup of the year …

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Jan
27
2025

Podcast – @AllSportsDACC and @TalkinACCSports talk about ACC basketball for 1/26/25 with @treadmillhorse

@AllSportsDACC and I (@TalkinACCSports ) are focused on ACC Basketball in this podcast and we have a great guest. @treadmillhorse (Dan Caro) of the fine Virginia Tech site treadmillhorse.com joined us. Thanks so much to Dan for joining. To find old podcasts prior to episode 385, you can follow this link -> https://www.talkshoe.com/show/the-acc-weekly-podcast In this order, these …

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Jan
24
2025

Way too Early College Football top 25 (Links)

Ohio State is your national champion, so we turning to next year all ready. Where is your team ranked in those way too early Top 25 Polls? https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/43452580/way-too-early-college-football-top-25-ranking-2025 https://www.si.com/college-football/sports-illustrateds-2025-way-too-early-college-football-top-25 https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-rankings-texas-georgia-miami-lead-way-too-early-top-25-ahead-of-2025-season/ https://sports.yahoo.com/way-too-early-top-25-for-2025-26-college-football-season-043356775.html https://athlonsports.com/college-football/way-too-early-top-25-rankings-for-2025#gid=ci02f1893740002623&pid=2-texas Make sure you follow the All Sports Discussion Twitter account at @AllSportsDACC and please like our Facebook Page.

Jan
23
2025

ACC Football Schedule Release Time announced.

Get Ready for the ACC Football Schedule Release on January 27! 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗔𝗖𝗖 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 🔜 January 27 | 9 pm | ACC Network pic.twitter.com/IfuUIUbHBd — ACC Football (@ACCFootball) January 22, 2025 And already here are the Week 0 and Week 1 games. Labor Day weekend is the one time ESPN does treat the …

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Jan
15
2025

Dabo Swinney making moves Clemson needed.

Dabo Swinney did it his way, and got to the top of College Football. From 2015-2020, Clemson stood at the top of college  football with Alabama. Then they gradually fell off, The Tigers are still good, but they aren’t great. Swinney largely avoided the transfer portal and hired from within his top assistants like former …

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Jan
08
2025

Final ACC Football Rankings for 2024-25

ACC Teams of Bowl Season: Louisville and Syracuse for their bowl wins. 17. Florida State (2-10) Last Week: 17 You can only hope the humiliation of this past year, will motivate the FSU to be the program it can be. It will never go lower. 16. Stanford  (3-9) Last Week: 16 How in the world did …

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Jan
07
2025

Why did Kirk Herbstreit take shots at Clemson?

A couple of weeks ago we wrote about the sad decline of Kirk Herbstreit as the voice of college football.   I didn’t expect to comment on something he said so soon.  As far I was concerned his opinions and takes have become as valuable as Paul Finebaum. In fact, as each day passes, I’ve become …

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Jan
06
2025

Podcast – @AllSportsDACC and @TalkinACCSports talk about the ACC Football Post-Season and ACC basketball.

@AllSportsDACC and I (@TalkinACCSports ) start getting you ready for the ACC college basketball conference play, and we have a quick look back at the ACC Bowl season, because well it was awful. To find old podcasts prior to episode 385, you can follow this link -> https://www.talkshoe.com/show/the-acc-weekly-podcast In this order, these are the topics we covered …

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Jan
03
2025

Virginia Tech fans react to 6-7 finish to season.

This was supposed to be a foundational season for Brent Pry and Virginia Tech. It ended in a thud with a listless 24-10 loss to Minnesota. How did Virginia Tech fans react? Maybe there is hope… A lot of talented transfers are coming along with a new OL coach, DC and strength and conditioning coach. …

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Jan
02
2025

Articles Around the #ACC Blogosphere – January 2, 2025

ACCPrescription finds some positives about the ACC Football Season. There are more than you think. CardChronicle reacts to Louisville’s 35-34 bowl win over Washington.  Clemson gets great news when QB Cade Klubnik decides to return to Clemson next year as Rubbing the Rock tells us. NuneMagician’s looks back at Syracuse’s football season including their big …

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