Jun
01
2023
The North Carolina Tar Heels open its season with three non-slouch opponents in South Carolina, App State, and Minnesota. App State and Minnesota will be played in Chapel Hill while the game against South Carolina will be played in Charlotte with kickoff slated for 7:30 p.m. UNC will then open its ACC schedule with a …
Nov
27
2022
This will be a somewhat expanded introduction to the Eliminator, because there really is only one question left for the selection committee. We know that Georgia and Michigan have locked up Playoff bids. TCU is in if it wins next week, and might even be in with a loss. USC is almost certainly in with …
Nov
20
2022
With just two weeks left in the season–and one of those weeks has a limited number of games–there is now a pretty distinct number of possible outcomes this year. In certain ways, this makes The Eliminator’s job very easy. Let’s find the most chaotic scenario we can, and ask who’s left out. If we know …
Nov
13
2022
It’s somewhat of a strange year for the College Football Playoff picture. Everyone assumes that Georgia won’t lose–at least not before the SEC Championship Game and the Bulldogs certainly look like it. Meanwhile, Ohio State and Michigan are looking at locking up a bid for the winner of The Game as long as both enter …
Nov
06
2022
Last week, I spoke about how a Notre Dame upset of Clemson could spell big trouble for the ACC. Well, Notre Dame delivered, and how. Unfortunately for the ACC, that means both Clemson and North Carolina are well behind the eight-ball in terms of having a CFP-worthy resume. Is there some good news here? Actually, …
Oct
30
2022
This year’s Notre Dame football team is, to put things lightly, an enigma. The Irish opened the season by keeping things very close against Ohio State. Notre Dame played far better against the Buckeyes than any team other than Penn State. The Irish also have some solid wins on the year. Then again, they also …
Jan
03
2021
#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. The ACC football season and the college football bowl season are mercifully over. (The national championship game isn’t a bowl game, since it is …
Oct
18
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. The Florida State Seminoles were far from perfect on Saturday night against the North Carolina Tar Heels. The 15-yard penalties. The missed short field …
Oct
15
2020
I have already spoken about the chaos in the Big 12 just about every week so far. Things are not looking good for the conference, and Oklahoma’s victory over Texas doesn’t help. Oklahoma State is still undefeated, and there’s a decent chance that either Iowa State or Kansas State finishes with one loss. The conference …
May
23
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. Give author @MattZemek, Editor@TrojansWire , a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of WEEK : Did The Last Dance help or hurt Michael Jordan’s legacy? It helps no one when a columnist is asked to give an opinion on a compelling but contentious point of debate, …
May
10
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. First things first: Asking about Clemson’s biggest threat the next three years should not be taken as an implied statement that Clemson WILL face a severe threat in ACC football the next three years. This is only …
Feb
08
2020
Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of WEEK : Who was the single-season ACC basketball team of the past decade? The Louisville Cardinals won a national basketball championship this past decade, but not as a member of the ACC. Three ACC programs won a combined …
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 …
Oct
31
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. We have one month left in the ACC regular season. Teams are scrambling for postseason positions. The pressure on coaches is intensifying. Teams have been forced to confront the weaknesses which have been exposed over the previous few weeks of conference play. Coaches …
Sep
17
2019
It was a tough week for the ACC. The league suffered a handful of embarrassing losses, which prompted one publication to say that it should be relegated to Group of Five status. While I think that’s a bit of an overreaction, it’s clear that the league isn’t as deep as it usually is. Here are …
Aug
24
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. The detail about Mack Brown’s career which needs to be kept in mind, upon the veteran coach’s return to North Carolina, is that he is and has been a CEO head coach. Brown recruits the bejeezus out of the trail. He is a …