What if they gave a conference championship game and nobody came? The ACC is blanketing the football airwaves with commercials begging people to buy tickets for its annual not quite extravaganza. Actually, forty-eight hours in Ybor City doesn’t sound half-bad. There does, however, seem to be a problem. Nobody wants to play in the game. [...]
With the football season right around the corner, this seems like as good a time as any to make my annual football predictions. As always, these predictions are guaranteed to be correct unless they are not. Atlantic Division 1] Florida State- For 16 years the Noles have resided atop ACC preseason forecasts. For most of [...]
A-Line Extra: FSU Sets Record 02/15/08 Florida State University placed all of its athletic teams on a self-imposed two-year probation due to the recent academic cheating scandal. Having all seventeen of its sports teams on probation at one time, every last one of them, was believed to be a record. FSU hoped that the self-imposed [...]
The time has come. The suitcase has finally been unpacked from the Miami trip. The coolers have been relegated to their off-season basement location for another year. The used tickets, programs and assorted other detritus from a season that tends to collect on my kitchen table from September to early January has been stashed into [...]
I recently got around to watching the replay of the Virginia Tech- Florida State game. It was immensely satisfying to observe Frank again flinging the Bowden Monkey off his back and relieving to see that between the end of the game I saw and the time Comcast replayed it Tuesday night Bobby had not found [...]
Well, that was fun. In one of those ‘Lane After Dark’ moments that demonstrate that those ‘loudest stadium in the country’ remarks are not all hyperbole, Tech staged an impressive Fourth Quarter rally to knock off Florida State. Frank’s ‘Bobby Jinx’ is over. And, further amusement was to be found from a score in the [...]
What a difference a week makes. Seven days after fans of Virginia Tech were sent into the depths of despair and after 100+ years of football, Boston College finally produced a second highlight, the tables were turned. It was fans of the ACC’s other Tech leaping from the roof of the Coca-Cola building. Oh, and [...]
With another football season right around the corner, all reputable media outlets are filling space with their predictions. I figure I might as well do it, too. The main thing that jumps out of the media’s forecasting in which order teams will finish is that they are invariably wrong. The most famous example of this [...]
1. Florida State- Year One of ACC expansion saw the Seminoles slide from their customary position atop the ACC standings. There is certainly evidence that the program has slipped. Aside from the screeching halt to the string of ACC football championships that was only broken by Maryland in 2001, the ‘Noles haven’t played for the [...]
The days of the Dead Zone are dwindling down to a precious few. Before we know it, another college football season will be upon us. When it does, so will the ACC’s new television contract. It will come in with a bang. Opening games used to be a time for the coaches of the powers [...]