Sep
25
2022
I started writing at Week 3 this year, and I said the Group of 5 was out of it. Well, now the Group of 5 really is. Cincinnati made the Playoff last year off the back of an incredible season––including a win over Notre Dame and decent chaos in the ACC, Pac 12, and Big …
Mar
21
2021
Author : our esteemed friend and college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. As a warm-blooded male member of the human species, I like high-scoring sports. Give me 1987 UNLV-Indiana as a Final Four national semifinal any day, any week, any year, over 2000 Wisconsin-Michigan State. The Bennett …
Jan
31
2021
Give this article’s author and our esteemed friend and college football writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire a follow Virginia and Florida State both served up clunkers on Saturday. Before I say anything else: The teams that beat them played really well. Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech displayed the desperation and hunger of teams trying to prove themselves and fight for …
Mar
01
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 : Are the Virginia Cavaliers playing the best basketball in the Atlantic Coast Conference? Before directly answering that question, let’s look at the larger landscape of the league. North Carolina State lost to North Carolina in the past …
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 …
Dec
06
2019
Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. It ought to be one of the most fun experiences a group of athletes and coaches can ever have. Saturday night in Charlotte, the Virginia Cavaliers — as a reward for breaking the 15-game losing streak against Virginia Tech and winning their …
Nov
04
2019
One of the core limitations of life is that you don’t always get what you want. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have large appetites and far-reaching aspirations. It means that while we might want to achieve richly, we live in a world of imperfection. It means that while we shoot for the stars, we live …
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 …
Oct
27
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Virginia the school isn’t female, but Virginia O’Hanlon was a young girl whose story gave rise to the familiar and enduring expression, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” If we were to inject a feminine dimension into a discussion of Cavalier football, …
Oct
27
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: What is the significance of Louisville’s win over Virginia? We are still in the middle of the 2019 season, but it was hard to avoid the sense that when the Louisville Cardinals defeated the Virginia Cavaliers on Saturday, they made a statement …
Oct
24
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Clemson is unbeaten. Virginia has a great chance to win the ACC Coastal. Those are not surprises to anyone who follows ACC football. Those realities do not deviate from most pundits’ expectations in late August. Yet, the path we have taken to get …
Oct
21
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: Has Virginia re-established itself as the ACC Coastal favorite? The Virginia Cavaliers performed brilliantly against the Duke Blue Devils on Saturday. If you were convinced by that performance, you have every right to be. Yet, it is quite another thing to say …
Oct
12
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Johnathan Kirkland of All Sports Discussion wrote an article during the Virginia Cavaliers’ idle week, which was sandwiched between the Notre Dame game on Sept. 28 and Friday night’s game at Miami. I agreed with Johnathan’s thesis. I thought the idle week did …
Oct
10
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: Who is the ACC first-half coach of the year? There are two reasonable and correct answers to the question, “Who was the ACC’s best coach in the first half of the 2019 season?” Dabo Swinney is not on the list. Dabo isn’t …
Oct
08
2019
Week 6 was the most exciting weekend of the year (so far). Three of the four contests were decided by a touchdown or less. How did this abbreviated schedule impact this week’s standings? Here’s the latest installment of the ACC Power Rankings… 14. Georgia Tech Last Week: 14 The Jackets remain in the cellar after …