Monday through Friday each week, we compile the best links on ACC football from around the web.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Too Soon to Demand Jobs of Coaches at Virginia Tech, Virginia (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
When you look at the Atlantic Coast Conference football standings, you wonder if the 2011-12 basketball standings have been listed by mistake. What else can you think when Duke is 6-2 and has a better record than every ACC team except Florida State and Clemson? Duke is just a few victories from playing in the Orange Bowl? Ah, come on. And yet, these are the current ACC football standings…
North Carolina, Duke, Virginia Tech or Miami: Who Wins the Coastal Division? (Athlon Sports)
After eight weeks of the 2012 college football season, there is very little clarity in the battle to win the ACC Coastal. North Carolina is ineligible to play in the postseason but can finish No. 1 in the standings. Duke currently ranks at the top, but Virginia Tech and Miami aren’t far behind. Which Team Will Win the ACC Coastal Division? Ryan Tice (@RyanTice), The Wolfpacker: Call me crazy, but I’m picking Miami in the Coastal Division…
If we’ve learned anything about Larry Fedora in the 10-plus months since he was hired as North Carolina’s new football coach, it’s that the man doesn’t do anything subtly. Whether it’s his offensive scheme, his workouts in the weight room or his offseason pep talks to local booster clubs, he rushes head-long into everything with the dexterity of a (Red) Bull in a china shop…
Clemson Faces Dangerous Test at Wake Forest (Fox Sports Carolinas)
Just ask Florida State about the dangers of playing at Wake Forest.The Seminoles and all of their Florida four- and five-star talent couldn’t escape Winston-Salem last season with a victory despite having a superior squad on paper. That’s just the way Jim Grobe’s Demon Deacons roll sometimes. Wake Forest is rarely more talented than its opposition, but Grobe’s won more than half of his games there over the last decade…
In a normal year, with a healthy college football program, you’d expect the recruiting Class of 2008 to be the fifth-year seniors that will lead this program this season. Not so for Boston College, who has seen its 2008 class decimated by transfers, suspensions and dismissals. There are plenty of things wrong with the Boston College football program…
Miami Refocuses During Bye Week (ESPN’s ACC Blog)
Miami has played eight straight games, so it is easy to see why the bye week comes at the perfect time. The Hurricanes need this week to rest up and re-focus on their stretch run. “It’s critical,” coach Al Golden said after Miami dropped its third straight game, losing 33-20 to rival Florida State on Saturday night. “We’re hanging on by a thread. We need time off. Brutal schedule, eight weeks in a row, young team. We need time off”…
Duke’s Football Win Rings Loudly (Durham Herald-Sun)
A rivalry is not much of one when one team beats the other nearly every single meeting. So it is not a stretch that the Duke-University of North Carolina football rivalry was not much of one over the past 20-plus years. Before last Saturday, UNC had won 21 of 22 football meetings between the two schools. That isn’t a real rivalry. Well, it sure is now…
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