Week 13 ACC prognostications

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MIAMI (FLA) 10 Boston College 9- No Flutie Hail Marys in this one .

NC ST 24 Maryland 13- Wacky Wolfpack will beat the terrible Terps.  Ugly unis are more important than a good team @ College park, MD.

Georgia 30  GEORGIA TECH 20- GT couldn't slow down Duke's O so they won't have any luck with the DAWGS.

UNC 21 Duke 20- Nailbiter between  I85 neighbors.

Vandy 24 WAKE FOREST 21 : Another game near I85. Vandy's Coach Franklin (should be the Terps coach) has done a nice job in his first season.

Florida St 35 FLORIDA 24- Another one time classic who's luster has faded. Gators struggled for 3 quarters against Furman --enuough said.

SOUTH CAROLINA 26 Clemson 22- Gamecocks complete a 3-0 SEC sweep of the ACC this weekend.

Virginia Tech 21 VIRGINIA 20- The  Hokies have just enough to squeeze by the Cavs.

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I'm not up to speed on hoops, yet, but I'll hazard some guesses on the ACC season.

My Terps hired  Mark Turgeon, a Midwest dude  and a decent coach @ Wichita St & Texas A&M, but the jury is out on how well he'll recruit  on Tobacco Road. Did Turgeon foresee TAMU going to the SEC, a so-so hoops conference? Terps will be missing  injured PG Pe'shon Howard and 7'1  & Russky Lan during their.pre- ACC schedule which features three solid  opponents: Bama, Illinois, & Notre Dame, and visit from Isiah Thomas FIU squad.

1 North Carolina- is a deep squad with Barnes, etc, but I wonder about their depth @ PG     

2-Duke has the Plums returning and a  Rivers running.        

3 Clemson        

4 Florida State lost their two top scorers so but should be Ok        

5 Virginia - Bennet is running out of time     

6 Virginia Tech  

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7 Maryland           

8 NC St           

9 Georgia Tech

10 Boston Colleg

11 Miami (Fla) - will miss Coach Haith now @ Mizzou and Larranga (GW) will need a season

12 Wake Forest - Deacons needs to keep praying

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Week 11 ACC Prognostications

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GEORGIA TECH 28 Virginia Tech 26  GT's O is still in high gear and their porous D  will do just enough against VT's  sputtering offense .

Notre Dame 28 Maryland 19- This is listed as an ND home game but their playing @ Fed Ex field , a few miles from the Terps campus. Kelly is getting just enough from his guys while Edsall isn't getting through.  Notre Dame's only previous meeting with Maryland came in a 22-0 Irish victory over the 21st-rated Terps on Aug. 31, 2002, at Giants Stadium in the Kickoff Classic. That game marked the first of the Tyrone Willingham era at Notre Dame.

CLEMSON 34  Wake Forest 20- Clemson got their loss out of the way., and their QB Boyd is a stud.

North Carolina St 20 BC 13- I wouldn't bet $$$ on either of these erratic teams

VA 26 Duke 14- Cavs are going bowling and the Blue boyz have  a weak D.

FLORIDA ST 31 Miami (Fla) 23-  Maybe this game is getting back some of it's luster, but the Noles D  will slow down Harris to Streeter and the Canes running game. Emanuel is decent not great @QB and will spread the ball around enough for the W.

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ACC week 9 prognostications

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MIAMI (FLA) 30 Virginia 17 . Jacory & the Canes  are in a groove and will win easily on Thursday night.

MD 17 Boston College 16-  I give my Terps  the nod in what is likely to be a dull game.

FLORIDA ST 31  NC st 19- Noles can handle  the erratic wolfpack.

Vt 34 DUKE 20- The Hokies engine is gathering steam. Logan Thomas  (QB) and David Wilson (RB) have put up solid numbers for VT.

UNC 21 Wake Forest 20- Toss a coin!

Clemson 44 GTECH 38- Clemson  will win the shootout.
 

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MIAMI (FLA) 35 Georgia Tech 34-  Jacory Harris has been sharp and GT's D  has been mediocre.

FLORIDA ST 37 Maryland 24. - Noles  recovery continues against my devastated Terps. Their QB Emanuel is better than any of MD's QB options..

CLEMSON 31 North Carolina 20- UNC is leveling off and Clemson has too many weapons.

VA 22 North Carolina  St  17- The Cavs rushing combo of  Jones & Parks will take advantage of a mediocre Wolfpack rushing D.

VT 29 Boston College 12-  VT is in gear and BC still hasn't  found any gears on offense.

Duke 28 Wake Forest 26-  The Deacons  travel an hour north on  I 85 to be bedeviled  
 

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Clemson 28 MD 23- This could be worse for MD if Boyd , the Clemson QB, can play.  Edsall's Offfense still is puzzling, particularly the QB situation.. So Edsall  has a strict dress code for his players around campus (no doo rags, etc), but they have to wear those grotesque uniforms on  the field  every week. 

Miami (Fla) 31 UNC 21- Miller , Streeter, Harris & Company will get the Canes a road win. Tar Heels won but  struggled against a mediocre Louisville squad last week.

GTech 35 VA 20- Cavs don't have enough O to win this one. I wonder if  GT can get Stephen Hill , their gifted WR, back on track.

Florida St 42 DUKE 17- Noles  need a recovery game and the Blue Devils fit the bill.

Va Tech 34  WAKE FOREST 32- Hokies will hang on  again.  
 

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GEORGIA TECH 35  Maryland 27- GT's offense is so potent but I wonder if Stephen Hill will become a consistent receiver. Terps aren't responding well to Edsall's ways.

Florida St 40 WAKE FOREST 23- Noles will wake up as they visit a pleasant part of the Triad (I lived in the Greensboro-Winston -Salem corridor briefly in 2005).

CLEMSON 31 Boston College 9- BC  will get pawed

Miami (Fla) ) 22  VIRGINIA TECH 21- Clemson exposed some VT weaknesses and Golden's Canes  will outlast the Hokies.

NORTH CAROLINA 34  Louisville 19- Tar Heels  will be too much for the Cardinals improving D.

NORTH CAROLINA ST  24 Central Michigan 12- Man , do the Wolfpack need this breather against a weak MAC squad. 
 

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Clemson 31 VTECH 23. Clemson may finally be consistent ,and  I think the Hokies need more of a passing game. However, I always underestimate VT early and get burned.

Georgia  Tech 38 NC ST 24- I love  Coach Johnson's  O and NC St is still  suffering from Post-  Russell Wilson  syndrome

Duke 35 FIU 34-  Cutliffe's O  should be enough to edge a suspect FIU D

BC 17 Wake- 14 Both teams have ragged edges but home field should save BC.

Idaho 20 VA 19- The Vandals  travel east from the WAC to steal the Cavs handles (borrowed from Bob Dylan)

North Carolina 30 EAST CAROLINA 28- This battle is always tougher than folks expect. Renner , the UNC QB, has 7 TDs and 6 Ints

MD 31 Towson 13- Towson is a 1AA school about 15 minutes from my house and their biggest claim to fame is punter Sean Landetta  , who punted for nearly 20 years in the NFL.

MIAMI (FLA) 49  Bethune Cookman 6 1AA tonic for the weakened canes. 
 

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I know a few of the posters here from the Sporting News days and later ventures to re-connect SN refugees. I was vapor 673 @ SN. I started a fantasy hockey league for ex- SNers--info is at the NHL forums.

My teams and why I follow them. I was born and raised and in Baltimore, Md and currently live a few miles north of the city.

NFL Saints- I adopted them in 1984 when the Colts were Mayflowered out of town, and I'm not a post Katrina bandwagon jumper

NHL Red Wings- Detroit had an AHL team in Baltimore for a few seasons in the 1970's. Also, I'm not a Caps fan because Abe Pollin, their one time owner, slowly  manipulated the Baltimore Bullets (NBA)  south on 95 to Landover, Md, then DC.

NBA- Nuggets-  For reasons stated above, I'm not a Wizards fan and so I've bounced from team to team. I like the Nuggets' Head Coach, George Karl.

MLB Orioles. Man have we suffered  with a terrible owner, Peter Angelos, for far too long.

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