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
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
Follow @Ryan_Kantor Three Reasons Clemson Will Beat FSU 1. Battle in the Trenches Continuing the tradition of great Clemson pass rushers like William “Refrigerator” Perry, Gaines Adams, and Da’Quan Bowers, Clemson is back to boasting a premier defensive line, headlined by DT Grady Jarrett and DE Vic Beasley. Clemson has 24 sacks on the season, second in the … Continue reading
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
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
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
Next season marks the final year of the BCS as we know it. In 2014, the National Championship will be determined by a four-team playoff. I’m not staunchly opposed to the move to a playoff, but it will surely make some of the games (see Orange Bowl potentially getting SEC #3) less special and packed … Continue reading
It’s always a good day to plunder the Big East The slow and gradual collapse of the Big East, which was caused in no small part by the misguided basketball-only schools who never realized that football must come first, leaves plenty for the plunder. 20 years ago, not realizing how much more important football would be … Continue reading
As a follow-up to my previous post arguing for the need to realign the ACC divisions, we will now look at which of those programs appear poised for the most success over the next five to 10 years. From one to 14, here’s how I see the ACC programs stacking up. I attempted to remove … Continue reading
Now that I got what I wanted with Louisville replacing Maryland in the ACC (a big upgrade), I’ve have more on my ACC Christmas list, the perfect divisional alignment. Shortly after it was announced that Louisville was invited to the conference, Commissioner John Swofford added that the Cardinals would be assigned to the Atlantic Division and … Continue reading
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