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SparkyOSU

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Take a look at the struggles by the ACC this week...

ACC
7:30 PM
West Virginia 45 ... Maryland 24
CFN Prediction: WVU 38-16 WVU -16
Saturday, September 16
12:00 PM
Virginia Tech 36 ... Duke 0
CFN Prediction: VT 38-6 VT - 35
12:00 PM
Wake Forest 24...at Connecticut 13
CFN Prediction: Wake 24-21 UConn -6
12:00 PM
Boston College 30 ... BYU 23 OT
CFN Prediction: BC 28-20 BC -7
1:30 PM
Georgia Tech 35 ... Troy 20
CFN Prediction: GT 31-10 GT -18
3:30 PM
Louisville 31 ... Miami7
CFN Prediction: Miami 26-24 UL -4.5
3:30 PM
Western Michigan 17 ... at Virginia 10
CFN Prediction: Virginia 21-17 UVA -9
7:00 PM
North Carolina 45 ... Furman 42
CFN Prediction: North Carolina 35-13
7:00 PM
Southern Miss 37 ... NC State 17
CFN Prediction: NC St 16-13 USM -2.5
7:45 PM
Clemson 27 ... at Florida State 20
CFN Prediction: FSU 23-17 FSU -4



Wake Forest is going to win the ACC!!!!
They got a great chance at starting off 5-0!!!
 
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Well if one put Illinois, Indiana, Northwestern, and Purdue on a list it looks like the Big Ten is struggling too. Short of the SEC, there's not really a top-to-bottom quality conference right now.
 
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It seems to me that this is a down year for most of the big schools in general, more so for the ACC and Big 12 than everyone else. The SEC is by far the strongest conference, but they will beat the hell out of each other and I don't think any of them have enough of a complete team to win the BCS. IMO OSU is the best team in CFB right now, but I also think that the team that finished last season was better than what we have right now. This seams to be a good year for mid majors to make a run. It looks like TCU and Boise St could win them all. NIU has a good shot to win the MAC west, but the East should be a good battle between OU, Akron, BG, and Kent. I know this thread is about the ACC, but they are practically worse than the MAC right now so who cares. :p
 
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Bucklion;610636; said:
Well if one put Illinois, Indiana, Northwestern, and Purdue on a list it looks like the Big Ten is struggling too. Short of the SEC, there's not really a top-to-bottom quality conference right now.
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The problem is that the ACC is 2-and-4 against the Big East. Louisville and WVU would wax just about anyone from the ACC short of Virginia Tech, and over half the ACC would have their hands full with Rutgers or Pitt. Va Tech should sue to go back to the Big East.

I disagree with the statement re: the SEC too. Miss, Miss St, Vandy, Kentucky, Arkansas, S Carolina don't make a "top-to-bottom" quality conference. The SEC is very good top-to-middle, but a full one-half of the conference is awful.
 
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Dryden;610809; said:
The problem is that the ACC is 2-and-4 against the Big East. Louisville and WVU would wax just about anyone from the ACC short of Virginia Tech, and over half the ACC would have their hands full with Rutgers or Pitt. Va Tech should sue to go back to the Big East.

I disagree with the statement re: the SEC too. Miss, Miss St, Vandy, Kentucky, Arkansas, S Carolina don't make a "top-to-bottom" quality conference. The SEC is very good top-to-middle, but a full one-half of the conference is awful.
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Well nobody is going to have 12 teams (or however many) with winning records. Mississippi State is definitely terrible, and Kentucky and Ole Miss aren't a whole lot better, but I wouldn't be shocked to see Arkansas or South Carolina in a Bowl game, and Vanderbilt hasn't fallen off as much without Cutler as I thought they would. They weren't close to beating UM, but they played both they and Arkansas tough though.

If anything, we should all be able to agree on the Big 12...Oklahoma State and Kansas State might be the two worst 3-0 teams in history, with apologies to this year's Purdue team, of course. The rest of that league isn't much better, Texas aside.
 
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Bucklion;610895; said:
Mississippi State is definitely terrible, and Kentucky and Ole Miss aren't a whole lot better, but I wouldn't be shocked to see Arkansas or South Carolina in a Bowl game, and Vanderbilt hasn't fallen off as much without Cutler as I thought they would.
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With the 12 game schedule and 60-some odd bowl slots, I wouldn't be surprised if Arkansas or S Carolina get to a bowl game either, but that doesn't equate to them actually being any good. :wink2:

The Gamecocks struggled with Wofford last week, 27-20.
 
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Dryden;611286; said:
With the 12 game schedule and 60-some odd bowl slots, I wouldn't be surprised if Arkansas or S Carolina get to a bowl game either, but that doesn't equate to them actually being any good. :wink2:

The Gamecocks struggled with Wofford last week, 27-20.
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And I-AA has also beaten 2 Big Ten teams...I think we pretty much agree here, really.
 
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I think its an overall down year for everybody. The talent is still there, just no one has it all put together to start the season like Miami, Ohio State, LSU, Oklahoma, USC and Texas have in previous years.
 
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I'm not sure this falls under "ACC Struggling", since technically an ACC team is going to win this game but...

Man, Virginia really blows.

It's nearly unfathomable that Al Groh was an NFL head coach just a few years ago - and not he's staring down the barrel of a 1-3 win season in a weak conference.
 
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All conferences look weak compared to the SEC, the LSU-AU game probably featured the two best teams in the country(yeah i went there, better than OSU), fortunately for AU they may not win pretty, but they know how to win SEC games, they have the best chance to go undefeated in the conference.
 
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usatoday

Miami's sudden stumbles mirror tumbling of ACC

By Jack Carey, USA TODAY

The current state of Atlantic Coast Conference football probably isn't what the league had in mind when it hatched an expansion plan three years ago.
Miami (Fla.), which after bolting from the Big East was supposed to be the program that would solidify the ACC as an elite conference, is 1-2 and unranked, beating only Division I-AA Florida A&M. In a supreme irony, the Hurricanes were thrashed 31-7 last week by Louisville, one of the schools the Big East brought in to replace the Hurricanes.

In another twist, Virginia Tech, 10th in the USA TODAY Coaches' Poll, is the only ACC team this week in the top 16. Tech wasn't even in the league's original expansion plans ? Syracuse had been eyed ? but was brought in when Virginia received political pressure to vote against the expansion unless the Hokies were included.

After the Big East was raided, many thought the league might be in danger of losing its automatic Bowl Championship Series spot. But West Virginia and Louisville are ranked higher than any ACC team, and the Big East is only 0.3 points behind the ACC in Jeff Sagarin's weekly conference ratings.

ACC coaches say the slide probably is temporary ? the season is only 25% complete ? and point out the conference lost 51 players in April's NFL Draft, 12 in the first round. "How can we judge (strength) today?" asked North Carolina State's embattled coach, Chuck Amato. "You have to judge after 12 games. Let the season play out. It's still a strong, strong, strong league."

Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer thinks his new league will soon rise. "I think it's the best conference in the country," he said. "And I think over time that will be proven."

The early returns this season are not good. Longtime league flagship Florida State lost at home last week to Clemson and dropped to 17th in the poll, a week after struggling to beat lightly regarded Troy. North Carolina State has lost back-to-back games to Akron and Southern Mississippi.

Virginia lost its homecoming game last week to Western Michigan. Maryland was crushed 45-24 at West Virginia last week. North Carolina barely escaped against Division I-AA Furman 45-42. In its opener, Duke was shut out at home by I-AA Richmond.
 
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Looks like this league is going to be a 4-way steel cage tickle fight between Clemson, Wake Forest, Boston College, and Georgia Tech.

This is certainly going to lead to the huge ratings, prestige, and dollars the league was hoping for when they poached Virginia Tech and Miami from the Big East and put them in the league with Free Shoes University and Chuck Amato's RISING national power in Raleigh :rofl:
 
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jlb1705;633773; said:
Looks like this league is going to be a 4-way steel cage tickle fight between Clemson, Wake Forest, Boston College, and Georgia Tech.

This is certainly going to lead to the huge ratings, prestige, and dollars the league was hoping for when they poached Virginia Tech and Miami from the Big East and put them in the league with Free Shoes University and Chuck Amato's RISING national power in Raleigh :rofl:
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:biggrin: I bet miami buys out there contract with the acc and gets back in big east for better odds to win.
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