Dec
06
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. 15. Boston College (1-3) Last week: 9 Boston gave up over 180 points losses to St. Johns and Florida this past week. 14. Pittsburgh (2-1) Last Week: 14 Pitt has won a couple of games in a row after their season opening loss. Check back if they beat Northwestern and …
Dec
06
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. The ACC Question of the week is back with our esteemed friend and college football writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. Some questions are meant to elicit direct yes-or-no answers… and then there’s this question about Louisville Cardinals head coach Scott Satterfield. It has been …
Dec
05
2020
I’ve been skeptical of Dave Doeren for a number of years. Where were the signature wins, and top 20 finishes? After 7 seasons and coming off a 4-8 year, Doeren was feeling his seat getting a little warmer. Then COVID hit. Doeren’s job was probably safe, but try telling the former coaches at South Carolina …
Dec
04
2020
So SEC commissioner Greg Sankey recently came out and discussed the ACC’s decision to have Notre Dame and Clemson play 9 conference games, which guarantees Notre Dame a spot in the ACC Championship. Clemson must only defeat Virginia Tech to get, and both will get a BYE week prior to the game. This is what …
Dec
03
2020
Kirk Herbstreit needs to reacquaint himself with Duke coach David Cutcliffe and his players. If any team had reason to be ready to wave the white flag — as ESPN’s Herbstreit characterized Michigan regarding its upcoming annual game with Ohio State — it’s the Blue Devils. They’re frustrating season has dropped to 2-7 overall and …
Dec
03
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. ACC Team of the Week : Notre Dame – for their 31-17 win over North Carolina 15. Syracuse (1-9) Last Week : 15 Syracuse was competitive in their loss to NC State, but this season can end soon enough. Oh no it’s Notre Dame next week. 14. Florida State (2-6) Last Week: …
Dec
02
2020
Michigan State Hall of Fame basketball coach Tom Izzo answers media questions about his players with one of two raised voices. One is protective, a defiant tone responding to anyone questioning why a player isn’t receiving more playing time or used in a different role. He may not explain the deficiencies he sees in said …
Dec
01
2020
By TOM SHANAHAN Michigan State coach Tom Izzo took another good team to Cameron Indoor Stadium, but this time his players responded to the usual Duke fast start and finished with a 75-69 Tuesday night in the State Farm Champions Classic. The No. 8-ranked Spartans (3-0) delivered a pair of firsts for an Izzo-coached team …
Dec
01
2020
In its history, the CFP selection committee has actually been someone consistent in being immune to criticism from media outlets. We haven’t really seen big shifts in rankings based on criticism from college football media. The closest we’ve ever seen to that was in the very first year of the rankings, when the committee flipped …
Dec
01
2020
One matchup to watch when Michigan State and Duke play is between a pair of 6-foot-9, 220-pound forwards from Wisconsin. They can play it big or small, they can score, rebound and pass. They are key position-less players added to deep and versatile rosters of teams searching for an identity from a year ago before …
Dec
01
2020
As I discussed in CFP Implications this week, we can start to pin down some scenarios. All of those scenarios right now assume that Alabama and Ohio State win out, and that Notre Dame wins out until at least the ACC Championship Game. If Clemson and Florida each win out, we could be looking at …
Dec
01
2020
Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski held court encircled by reporters, as usual, at the 2019 ACC media session in Charlotte – back in the pre-pandemic gathering days – when the subject turned to him rather than his team. “I’ve had enough stories written about me,” he said politely. “If I never had another story written …
Nov
30
2020
Most years the college football world runs gets ahead of itself anointing the top teams too early in the season. Chaos always comes, and the elites always trip up eventually. Top teams do make their way through the seasons, but we very often have a different set of top teams in Week 12 than we …
Nov
29
2020
Roy Williams is taking North Carolina on another trip to Maui, but the Tar Heels are riding a bus to Asheville in western North Carolina’s mountains rather than boarding a plane for paradise in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. But you won’t be able to tell the Camping World Maui Invitational court’s location by …
Nov
29
2020
We are one day removed from the NC State versus Syracuse game. A game, that in my eyes, was an absolute debacle. A game that I believed not one NC State fan should be satisfied with. Yet, what did I learn? That I was the only one that found the win to be disappointing. A …
Nov
29
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. 15. Georgia Tech (0-2) Last Week : N/A Georgia Tech had a disastrous opening week with losses to Mercer and Georgia State. Josh Pastner did as poor a job as any coach in the country preparing his team for COVID world college basketball. 14. Pittsburgh (1-1) Last Week: N/A Somebody …