A month ago Florida State entered the season as a national title contender. Even after the 24-7 loss to Alabama the Noles playoff hopes were not completely dashed. QB Deondre Francois suffered a season ending injury, a hurricane disjointed the schedule, and FSU went into their game with NC State having not played in a month. …
Category Archive: College Football
Sep
22
2017
Virginia’s hammering of Boise State changes outlook for the season.
Each football weekend, I give you my reaction to handful of ACC games. I very rarely comment on games that I didn’t watch a good a portion of. Let me just say I wasn’t able to watch, but the final minutes of Virginia vs Boise State. I still had to write a game reaction, because …
Sep
21
2017
Around the #ACC Blogosphere For September 21, 2017
It’s been awhile since we’ve done an Around the ACC Blogosphere, so let’s get right into it. ChopChat takes a look at what the expectations are for Florida State for the rest of the football after their long layoff. The good folks at ACCNation make their picks this week for games featuring an ACC team. …
Sep
19
2017
Ranking the Power 5 Football Conferences after Week 3 with Playoff Analysis
While the playoff committee doesn’t rank the power 5 conference, there is no way conference strength – which means OOC results doesnt figure in to a committee members thought process. Let me point out on my philosophy on these rankings – your most recent OOC results count a lot, and you’ll see me reference that …
Sep
18
2017
Podcast – @Hokiesmash_ASD & @TalkinACCSports review week 3 & preview week 4 in ACC Football with @ahammsportsgeek
@Hokiesmash_ASD and @TalkinACCSports take a look back at week 3 and preview week 4 in ACC football in this podcast. We were happy to be joined by AP SportsWriter @ahammsportsgeek (Andrew Hammond). Andrew’s work can be also be found @FanSided and @SaturdayBlitz. We highly recommend that you check it out. You can also find this most recent podcast and all our other podcasts on …
Sep
17
2017
Taking stock of NC State 3 games into the football season.
Good evening all you ACC football fans. As a NC State fan, I came into this season with aspirations of 9 or if the cards fell right, a 10 win season. After the first 3 weeks NC State is 2-1, not a bad record, but not ideal. NC State lost to South Carolina because, South …
Sep
16
2017
Clemson looks scary good while flat trouncing Louisville.
All I could think of as I was watching Clemson flatten Louisville was this team might be better than last year’s national championship team. That is bad news for the rest of the ACC and the rest of the country. Clemson was Louisville’s Super Bowl this year. It was their biggest home game of the …
Sep
16
2017
At 3-0, this Duke Football deserves more Blue Devil fans show up to their home games.
Duke played a sloppy game today against a bad Baylor team. They won 34-20, and moved to 3-0. Daniel Jones made some uncharacteristic mistakes at QB, and the secondary gave up a couple long TD passes. You never really felt Baylor would win the game though. A win is a win. They took care of …
Sep
13
2017
Louisville addition continues to payoff for ACC Football.
Quick tell me how many ACC vs ACC Matchups have been ESPN Gameday Matchups the last 10 years that weren’t Florida State vs Miami ( A historically great rivalry ) or Florida State vs Clemson ( the best college football rivalry of the last 5 years )? October 3, 2009 – Florida State vs Boston …
Sep
11
2017
Podcast – @Hokiesmash_ASD and @TalkinACCSports review week 2 and preview week 3 in ACC Football with @techlunchpaild
@Hokiesmash_ASD and @TalkinACCSports (me) are back at it with our football podcasts. We are joined by @techlunchpaild (Tim Thomas) of the excellent Virginia Tech site http://techlunchpail.com/. It was great having @techlunchpaild on the show. 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 also now available on Stiticher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/httpwwwtalkshoecomtalkshoewebtalkcastjspmasterid130024cmdtc/the-acc-weekly-podcast?refid=stpr In this order, these …
Sep
11
2017
The @ESPN FPI continues to be good for some laughs.
It’s become a yearly tradition here on the blog. We get a good laugh at how inaccurate ESPN’s FPI is as predictor and actual rankings system. We laughed in 2015 and we laughed in 2016. Let’s laugh again in 2017, as Ohio State who I’d personally ranked around 12 or 13, are the number 1 team …
Sep
10
2017
Ranking the Power 5 Football Conferences after Week 2 with Playoff Analysis
While the playoff committee doesn’t rank the power 5 conference, there is no way conference strength – which means OOC results doesnt figure in to a committee members thought process. Let me point out on my philosophy on these rankings – your most recent OOC results count a lot, and you’ll see me reference that …
Sep
10
2017
Quick ACC Winners and Losers in Week 2
Winners Clemson – They look like they could reach the playoffs again. The defense looks like the country’s best and they totally stuffed Auburn Saturday night. The front 4 is scary good. Duke – This is a team to watch. Duke routed a pretty decent Northwestern team 41-17. Daniel Jones continues to get better and …
Sep
10
2017
Clemson makes early case to be a playoff contender with suffocating win over Auburn.
The year after Deshaun Watson left Clemson, we wondered if the Tigers were capable of reaching the playoffs again. After Clemson’s suffocating win over Auburn, we can safely say they are capable of reaching the playoffs. It all starts with the Tigers defense which features the country’s best front four. This is what I predicted …
Sep
07
2017
A couple of thoughts on each Week 2 ACC Game.
Sometimes games can just get over-analyzed. In this article we’re going give you one storyline thought on each ACC Game. The lines of these games tell who’s favored. Like American football where anything can happen AFL Betting sites give odds on Australian Rules Football. It’s the same around the world trying to predict game. Just go …















