Dec
27
2019
Pitt entered the Quick Lane Bowl as a double digit bowl favorite vs an Eastern Michigan team that hadn’t won bowl game in over 30 years. Eastern Michigan went 6-6 and 3-5 in the MAC this year. Is was arguably the best matchup any ACC team had in their bowl game this year. For Eastern …
Dec
26
2019
Another college football season is winding down as we are in the midst of the bowl games. Clemson, Ohio State, LSU, and Oklahoma will battle it out for the National Championship. And next season you are more likely than not to see Clemson and Ohio State back in the mix again. You see, this will …
Dec
26
2019
Manny Diaz has been at Miami for one season, and he enters the 2020 already in trouble. Don’t think for a minute he’s safe either. When Arkansas and Florida State fired their coaches Chad Morris and Willie Taggart less than 2 years into their tenures, there no reason Miami may not do the same. …
Dec
24
2019
Thanks to the Charlotte Touchdown Club for its “Defender of the Nation Award.” College football needs a “throwback award” and that’s what the Charlotte’s award has represented since instituted in 2016. The 2019 recipient was Air Force senior linebacker Kyle Johnson, who leads No. 24-ranked Air Force (10-2) into the Cheez-It Bowl against Washington State …
Dec
24
2019
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) review the ACC Football regular season and preview ACC Bowl season with @mattzemek. We really appreciate college football writer @mattzemek for joining us. He contributes to this site as well as several others! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rwradios-acc-weekly-podcast/id831843856?t=2. We are also now available on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/httpwwwtalkshoecomtalkshoewebtalkcastjspmasterid130024cmdtc/the-acc-weekly-podcast?refid=stpr0 We are also now available on PodBean! https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/p573j-6e69d/The-ACC-Weekly-Podcast To …
Dec
23
2019
Geraud Sanders and his Air Force teammates as freshmen he arrived with in Colorado Springs were unaware how good they had it. In 2016, Air Force’s trip to the Arizona Bowl was the Falcons’ ninth post-season game in head coach Troy Calhoun’s 10th season. But then a 5-7 record in 2017 sent them home for …
Dec
22
2019
Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: Are Dabo Swinney’s claims of disrespect toward Clemson real? Whenever Dabo Swinney or Nick Saban — the two coaches who have ruled over college football the past five years — open their mouths and say anything which carries the scent of …
Dec
21
2019
Nearly the entire BCS era was a disaster for ACC football. So much so, that it nearly broke the conference apart at the beginning of the decade. Then the upward football trend started during the 4-2 2012 Bowl season where Florida State won an Orange Bowl, Clemson beat a top 10 LSU team, and Georgia …
Dec
19
2019
Navy quarterback Malcolm Perry put on a performance for the ages in the 120th edition of the Army-Navy Game, the grandest rivalry in college sports, rushing for 304 yards and two touchdowns last week to lead Navy’s 31-7 victory. If some retrospect can be allowed, maybe he deserved some of the national attention and Heisman …
Dec
18
2019
With the early signing day on December 18, more than 80% of a program’s class will get signed this Wednesday. Recruiting rankings aren’t the ultimate decider of how a team will do in the future, but if you don’t think they matter then you haven’t followed college football. The best teams far more often than …
Dec
17
2019
Part of Dabo Swinney’s coaching repertoire is his ability to motivate. He’ll use any perceived slight to his Clemson program as a motivational tool. Clemson fans will call it genius, his critics will call it overdone and annoying. Whatever it is, it works. This week Swinney gained several more motivational slights that he can use …
Dec
16
2019
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) review the ACC Football regular season and preview ACC Bowl season with @TerryPJohnson. We really appreciate college football writer @TerryPJohnson for joining us. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rwradios-acc-weekly-podcast/id831843856?t=2. We are also now available on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/httpwwwtalkshoecomtalkshoewebtalkcastjspmasterid130024cmdtc/the-acc-weekly-podcast?refid=stpr0 We are also now available on PodBean! https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/p573j-6e69d/The-ACC-Weekly-Podcast To listen go here – https://www.talkshoe.com/episode/7942931 In this order, these …
Dec
15
2019
Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: What the 3 most interesting ACC bowl games? When Cam Akers of Florida State announced that he would not play in the Tony The Tiger Sun Bowl, the Seminoles’ game against Arizona State lost some of its luster and value. That …
Dec
15
2019
1. Louisville (10-1, 2-0) Louisville lost to Texas Tech, but who in the ACC doesn’t have at least one head scratching loss? This is still the conferences’s most complete team. 2. Virginia (8-1, 2-0) Virginia can go into scoring funks, but as long as they play defense they’ll be very good. 3. Duke (9-1, 1-0) …
Dec
13
2019
Kelvin Hopkins Jr. opened the 2019 season as Army’s record-breaking triple-option quarterback. He was named to validating watch lists such as the Manning, Unitas and O’Brien, awards that favor those throwing the ball. Now, four months later, he’s limping to finish line, the 120th Army-Navy Game. In the grandest rivalry in college sports, Army (5-7) …
Dec
13
2019
Letter to Jerry Jones: Jer-uh, I have a great idea that you and the NFL should embrace. You’ve been a leader at driving innovative NFL marketing and promotion. That’s one of the reasons you’re in the Pro Football Hall of Fame as the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. The week of the 120th Army-Navy Game …