Follow @Ryan_Kantor The college football season is over, and the long wait until Labor Day weekend and college football begins again. So now we look back at the season that was, and look ahead to the possibilities 2014 holds. 2013 – Positives The season began and ended on a high note. The prime time win … Continue reading
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ACC Bowl Projections – Week 14
Follow @Ryan_Kantor In this week’s ACC Power Rankings, we offer bowl projections for each of the ACC’s bowl eligible programs. Below is a quick look at the bowl projections. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. BCS National Championship: FSU Orange Bowl: Clemson (vs. Alabama or Ohio State) Chick-fil-A Bowl: Duke Russell … Continue reading
Shakin’ the Southland’s ACC Power Rankings: Week 11
Follow @Ryan_Kantor Virginia Tech threw a wrench in the ACC Coastal while Stanford cleared up the outlook for the conference’s top programs. In this week’s ACC Power Rankings, we break the conference into five tiers, talk about BCS scenarios, and ponder what happened to Jim Grobe’s program. We also have a new #3. Check out this … Continue reading
The Best (and Worst) Stadiums in the ACC
Follow @Ryan_Kantor The ACC isn’t exactly known for its plethora of intimidating stadiums, nonetheless, I love traveling along with my alma mater for road games. With trips to Carter-Finley in Raleigh and Byrd in College Park this season, I can now say I’ve visited every ACC Charter member’s stadium in addition to some others. Below, … Continue reading
Week 7: ACC Power Rankings
Follow @Ryan_Kantor We’re at halftime of the college football season, and it’s amazing (and sad) how quickly it flies by! We wait eight months and then blink and it’s already at the midway point. In first half of the year, the ACC enjoyed some marquee wins with Clemson knocking of then #5 UGA and Miami … Continue reading
Ugly Helmet Clash: Final Four
Follow @Ryan_Kantor The Round of Eight is complete! We pitted the eight most hideous helmets in college football against one another and voters picked which were the ugliest. Thank you to the over 100 people who visited the site to register your votes. We’re now down to the four ugliest helmets in college football. Let’s … Continue reading
Ugly Helmet Clash: Round of 8
Follow @Ryan_Kantor You may not remember, but in 2008, ESPN created the Helmet Clash, where they pitted some of college football’s best looking helmets against each other in tournament style polling. Florida State’s iconic gold helmet with the spear won out. Now, in “honor” of this week’s Thursday Night ACC matchup where Virginia Tech is … Continue reading
March Madness vs Bowl Season, a Debate for the Ages
With March Madness right around the corner, and hearing it from UNC and Wake fans here in North Carolina it got me thinking, is March Madness really the best postseason in sports? It’s certainly better than the NBA’s postseason, few would dispute that, but what about Major League Baseball? What about the college bowl season? … Continue reading
Venting On Clemson
Clemson Athletic Director Terry Don Phillips’s emotional, passionate, cool, trendy, thoughtless, easy, and wrong hire of Dabo Swinney is looking worse and worse as Dabo once again led Clemson into a road environment and left winless. Alumni Stadium in Boston was quiet and half empty just like Clemson’s offense. Props to Kevin Steele though whose … Continue reading