November 9th, 2018 at 7:25 AM ^
Well, I don't wish that on anybody. But that being the case, he should absolutely be home! We missed out on Lloyd being on the committee because of his health. He wanted to spend his time with family, not football. And that's a choice anyone can make with a clear conscience.
November 8th, 2018 at 11:16 PM ^
There's a very real chance that Clemson won't play a top-25 team (as ranked at the end of the year) all season, yet there's just this assumption that they're an elite team. And I think they are a very good team, but much like the SEC it feels like the very top of the conference is probably hiding just how mediocre the middle and bottom are.
November 8th, 2018 at 11:59 PM ^
People should shit on the ACC all they want, but it's still made up of average Division One football teams that Clemson is beating by 50+ points week in and week out. There is no legitimate reason to question Clemson's ranking.
November 9th, 2018 at 12:04 AM ^
HEY!!! Dabo is on MGoBlog!!!
November 9th, 2018 at 7:04 AM ^
Well... Clemson's best win is against Syracuse. At home. And it was very close. They arguably should have lost, and again arguably, they only won because Syracuse choked.
So there is that.
November 9th, 2018 at 8:18 AM ^
Don't forget their game against Texas A&M, where an A&M player fumbled the ball out of bounds and the officials decided to call it a touch back through the end zone.
November 9th, 2018 at 8:07 AM ^
How did you just contradict yourself without assistance?
November 9th, 2018 at 1:51 PM ^
Clemson beat a 5-4 A&M team by 2 points on a fluky-ish finish, by 4 to Syracuse (admittedly with their backup QB), and have played the S&P+ 87, 40, 75, and 104th teams the past 4 weeks (though with NCSU losing to Wake my guess is the 87 will go down a bit and the 40 will go up).
By comparison, Michigan has beaten the 65, 13, 30, and 12 teams. I'm not someone who believes whole-heartedly in resume alone, but their schedule is 88th in the country for a reason, and there's a fair argument to be made that until we see their offense go against anything approximating a good defense we don't know how they'll hold up. A&M's is the best they've seen at 30, and they couldn't crack 30 points against them. For comparison, Michigan has faced at least 4 top-40 defenses just off the top of my head and did pretty well against them.
November 9th, 2018 at 5:23 AM ^
Most of college football sucks ass this season. It’s not just the ACC. In the B1G, we could theoretically have a 5-7 Northwestern team playing for the championship in Indianapolis. That’s ... remarkable? Is that the word?
The SEC and PAC-12 are equally awful. I can count on one finger the number of teams in both of those conferences (combined) who could go head-to-head with Michigan.
November 9th, 2018 at 7:24 AM ^
I think Syracuse is actually a top 25 team.
/ducks
November 9th, 2018 at 8:24 AM ^
Wouldn't the middle and lower level teams by definition be "mediocre":
me·di·o·cre
/ˌmēdēˈōkər/
adjective
-
of only moderate quality; not very good.
The problem with the ACC isn't that the not very good teams aren't very good - it's that there's one good team and a lot of filler.
November 8th, 2018 at 11:17 PM ^
Wake Forest team with a backup Freshman Qb making his first start. Wake will move up to the top 20 now
November 8th, 2018 at 11:20 PM ^
That should put them solidly in the top 10.
November 8th, 2018 at 11:26 PM ^
Hahahaha...ACC sucks!
November 9th, 2018 at 12:24 AM ^
Wake Forest is apparently pretty good. They just beat a top 15 team.
November 8th, 2018 at 11:36 PM ^
The ACC is full of phonies!!
November 8th, 2018 at 11:37 PM ^
AAC > ACC
November 8th, 2018 at 11:37 PM ^
I wish the committee were available for questioning on why they think the ACC is so good. Clemson is the only team that should be ranked from that conference.
NC State, Syracuse, and BC are all frauds.
November 9th, 2018 at 8:21 AM ^
I agree with 66.6% of your assessment. BC may be fairly decent. Let's see Saturday night.
November 8th, 2018 at 11:37 PM ^
AAC > ACC
November 8th, 2018 at 11:38 PM ^
I whole heatedly believe this to be true.
November 9th, 2018 at 5:01 AM ^
Hot take?
November 8th, 2018 at 11:38 PM ^
now wake forest will be ranked top 15 while nc state drops all the way to number 18
November 8th, 2018 at 11:52 PM ^
But of course. The WF victory is proof that the ACC is not only a strong conference, but a balanced and deep conference.
November 9th, 2018 at 12:10 AM ^
Hey, that logic works for the SEC.
November 9th, 2018 at 12:20 AM ^
it's not logic with the big 10 though, it's crazy talk
November 9th, 2018 at 12:38 AM ^
Not even the Pac 12 can use it.
November 9th, 2018 at 10:19 AM ^
To be fair the bottom of the Big Ten is absolute trash.....Not that the ACC is not, but they obviously benefit from geography, proximity to SEC bias...
November 8th, 2018 at 11:49 PM ^
Somehow NC St. will move up in the rankings.
November 8th, 2018 at 11:49 PM ^
Somehow NC St. will move up in the rankings.
November 8th, 2018 at 11:51 PM ^
Oh you mean the powerhouse team Clemson was using as a resume reference?
November 8th, 2018 at 11:53 PM ^
So wake should jump to around 21 or 22?
November 9th, 2018 at 12:01 AM ^
Even though NCST is my grad school, fuck ‘em. Go Blue.
November 9th, 2018 at 12:07 AM ^
That is brutal.
November 9th, 2018 at 12:16 AM ^
REVENGE TOUR. NO MERCY. GBOD.
November 9th, 2018 at 12:06 AM ^
So Wake is going to ranked in top 20 now?
November 9th, 2018 at 12:28 AM ^
Probably, top 10. Funny, once you're in the top 4, who cares who is in the top 10.... Wake Forest Forever!
November 9th, 2018 at 12:35 AM ^
I keep getting ad/spammed with this. Rutger to blame? Or Rutgres?
November 9th, 2018 at 5:28 AM ^
nice marbling of the cut, though it is tending to the fatty side of things. shows as a grain fed, not grass fed shirt. oddly enough it appears that you will find them mingling with herds of shirts of hairy fat guys. unsure if the hair gets on the meat.
November 9th, 2018 at 7:06 AM ^
Me too! LOL......I say we all buy one and only wear it during Rutgers week from now on. That would be a new tradition I could see taking off.... While wearing one of these stupid helmets
November 9th, 2018 at 8:08 AM ^
I get the stupid helmet and the meat shirt too. Now Tecova shoes are taking over the side bar ads and some random Japanese play "Shen Yun".
It's not just that we're getting ads all over the place it's that they're really, really BAD ads.
I miss the Arab women date site ads.
November 9th, 2018 at 8:24 AM ^
I just spit coffee everywhere with that last line...I really miss the Russian girl ads.
November 9th, 2018 at 8:12 AM ^
The first person I ever see wearing one of those helmets I'm going to beat to death.
With my penis.
November 9th, 2018 at 8:27 AM ^
I would love to see this... I mean, not you junk... but the act of you doing it would be hilariously awesome.....that got awkward...
November 9th, 2018 at 1:51 AM ^
Joel Klatt will be a hoot next week. He'll use this defeat to point out NC State was grossly overranked.
November 9th, 2018 at 2:47 AM ^
He’s just looking for attention. First he tells us how the ACC is grossly overrated, then he tells us how great Clemson is for the way they beat up crappy ACC teams.
November 9th, 2018 at 6:03 AM ^
When he says great he means, not a steaming pile of dog crap.
November 9th, 2018 at 8:42 AM ^
NC State was ranked exactly where they should have been - if they had convincingly won the WVU game that was cancelled.
November 9th, 2018 at 5:50 AM ^
Gee this proves how great the ACC (aka SEC Jr.) is. Even their bottom feeders can go on the road and beat powerhouses.
I'd bump every ACC and SEC team in the rankings after last night.
November 9th, 2018 at 7:32 AM ^
Including NC State. They should probably also move up a few spots just for “hanging in there” with the powerhouse Demon Deacons