Jan
14
2020
As we do with each ACC Bowl Team, we take a look back at a team’s game and look ahead. Clemson in the national title game was the last ACC school to finish their football season. It didn’t go well. LSU took care of Clemson 42-25. Clemson was a great team. LSU was a better …
Jan
10
2020
Michigan State and Duke – respectively the preseason Nos. 1 and 4-ranked teams — again appear Final Four worthy. Their lineup rotations that endured early season hiccups are coming into sharper focus with conference play fully underway. If so, the NCAA, come bracket time, surely won’t match them in the same regional like it did …
Jan
09
2020
Here we are, on the last days of the college football season. Yes, that’s right, 16 days after the CFP Semifinal games we will get the championship game on Monday night. Not only do we have to wait 16 days in between the Semifinal and the Championship we had to wait 21 days from the …
Jan
05
2020
With the bowl season going on the last 2 weeks, we’ve been mostly focused on the game results. With a 4-6 bowl record, it hasn’t been a stellar bowl season for the ACC. There was a story from a couple of weeks, that we wanted to address though. ACCPerscription tells us about a potential television …
Jan
04
2020
It’s been an uneven early start for ACC Basketball. It certainly hasn’t been a vintage stuff, and not what we expect from the conference. With s much player turnover it wasn’t that unexpected though. The conference is still a respectable 4th in terms of conference RPI. Saturday brought much needed clarity of who are the …
Jan
02
2020
Boston College was the latest ACC team to flop in their bowl game after going down 38-6 to Cincinnati. There will be plenty of time to discuss the ACC’s disappointing 4-6 bowl season. Clemson may yet still give the ACC one more win the National Title game, but the conference will still finish under .500 …
Dec
31
2019
15 seconds is all that stood between Virginia Tech and a 9 win, top 25 season. There’d also be an an off-season of optimism plus the added bonus of sending out coaching legend Bud Foster a winner in his final game as DC. Then it all fell apart against an average Kentucky team, with a …
Dec
31
2019
There wasn’t anyone that thought Mike Novell wasn’t walking into a major rebuild at Florida State. In the last three seasons Florida State football has an 18-20 record. That includes back to back to losing seasons in 2018 and 2019. Tuesday’s 20-14 six turnover bowl loss to Arizona State just further is a microcosm of …
Dec
31
2019
Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: What does Clemson need to do to beat LSU? The Clemson Tigers will have to do many different things to beat the LSU Tigers in the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship Game. Clemson’s receivers need to get healthy after a …
Dec
31
2019
Piece by piece, year by year, holes are punched in storyboards depicting Alabama coach Bear Bryant as a benevolent segregationist. The myths were created to hide his silent voice on race in the 1960s — the issue of his times for a southern leader to be on the right side of history — belie that …
Dec
31
2019
Virginia was a huge underdog against Florida in the Orange Bowl. Many did not give them much of a chance to compete with a top 10 Florida team. Compete and compete hard is exactly what they did. The Virginia coaching schemed around the team’s deficiencies and injuries in the secondary as best they could. It …
Dec
30
2019
DURHAM – Mike Krzyzewski said from the beginning this was an “old-school team, old-school season.” Relying on balance and depth was Duke’s path to an ACC and/or NCAA title. He meant teaching his players lost arts as a result of the modern AAU circuit that emphasizes individual workouts. Fundamentals such as talking on the court …
Dec
30
2019
You better get Louisville now, because they are coming. Following a nightmare 2018 season, that as we’ve said several times was among the very worst in ACC history, Louisville roared back into relevance with a remarkable 8-5 season that just about nobody saw coming. You won’t find many people that didn’t think Scott Satterfield wasn’t …
Dec
29
2019
Did you know Ohio State has never beat Clemson in their history as a college football program? 0-4. This one kind of summarizes the conspiracy theories. My favorite officiating conspiracy theories from last night: SEC officials wanted a Southern team in the title game. LSU/Burrow didn’t want to play Ohio State, called in a favor. …
Dec
29
2019
Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Harry Houdini is known as the original (or one of the original) escape artist stunt performers, who gave rise to David Copperfield and David Blaine in subsequent decades. To “pull a Houdini” is a term which might not be instantly recognizable to …
Dec
28
2019
DURHAM – Two looks at Duke without Tre Jones in late December have offered contrasting views of the Blue Devils’ depth and balance. Those qualities, coach Mike Krzyzewski believes, are the key to the No. 4-ranked Blue Devils winning an ACC and/or national championship Duke (11-1) appeared to miss Jones’ presence more in its 75-50 …