FB: ACC Week 12

[Bob Green]

Here are this week's non-Duke ACC games:

12:00 - Pittsburgh at Wake Forest (ACCNE)
12:20 - N.C. State at Louisville (ACCNE)
2:30 - #12 Syracuse at #3 Notre Dame (NBC)
3:00 - Western Carolina at North Carolina (ACCNE)
3:30 - #20 Boston College at Florida State (ESPN2)
3:30 - Virginia at Georgia Tech (ACCNE)
3:30 - Miami at Virginia Tech (ACCNE)

Wake Forest and Miami can secure bowl game eligibility with a win.

[CameronBornAndBred]

Here are this week's non-Duke ACC games:

12:00 - Pittsburgh at Wake Forest (ACCNE)
12:20 - N.C. State at Louisville (ACCNE)
2:30 - #12 Syracuse at #3 Notre Dame (NBC)
3:00 - Western Carolina at North Carolina (ACCNE)
3:30 - #20 Boston College at Florida State (ESPN2)
3:30 - Virginia at Georgia Tech (ACCNE)
3:30 - Miami at Virginia Tech (ACCNE)

Wake Forest and Miami can secure bowl game eligibility with a win.

WCU has a record of 3-7. The cheaters have a chance at victory!

PS...Go Wake

[OldPhiKap]

WCU has a record of 3-7. The cheaters have a chance at victory!

UNC is a 31 point favorite. OF course, weren't they favored by 28 or so over ECU?

[wilson]

Anybody else rooting hard for Syracuse this weekend? I have no use for Notre Dame, and on other occasions on which they've made their way into major bowls in recent years, they've generally gotten their [fannies] handed to them.
I think the Orange have a very real chance this weekend, and I'd rather see Michigan in the CFP...not that it matters, since Alabama has mooted the whole process.

[CameronBornAndBred]

Anybody else rooting hard for Syracuse this weekend? I have no use for Notre Dame, and on other occasions on which they've made their way into major bowls in recent years, they've generally gotten their [fannies] handed to them.
I think the Orange have a very real chance this weekend, and I'd rather see Michigan in the CFP...not that it matters, since Alabama has mooted the whole process.

Yep. I pull for ACC teams in non-conference matchups. (baby blues excluded of course.)

[TruBlu]

I’m back to having two teams to pull for this weekend. Last weekend I only had one, cause we were playing the cheats.

Go Duke!

Go WCU!

[HereBeforeCoachK]

Yep. I pull for ACC teams in non-conference matchups. (baby blues excluded of course.)

I can remember when almost everybody did that, especially in basketball, and I'm far from the oldest one here. It was the Cheats who ruined it...they simply could not accept that K was building a program that was passing them by....they thought with Dean's Myth that they would be kings forever (minus an odd run by Norm Sloan or Lefty...).

Now Duke hate is a national affliction....mostly from idiots who can't put two coherent syllables together as to why they hate Duke...

[killerleft]

Anybody else rooting hard for Syracuse this weekend? I have no use for Notre Dame, and on other occasions on which they've made their way into major bowls in recent years, they've generally gotten their [fannies] handed to them.
I think the Orange have a very real chance this weekend, and I'd rather see Michigan in the CFP...not that it matters, since Alabama has mooted the whole process.

I, too, do not like Notre Dame. They're constantly overrated. How long will the Irish reap the benefits of an illustrious past? Forever, I guess. Go Orange.

[CameronWade]

I, too, do not like Notre Dame. They're constantly overrated. How long will the Irish reap the benefits of an illustrious past? Forever, I guess. Go Orange.

Count me as another person rooting for Syracuse today as I also dislike Notre Dame. It really bothers me that they reap all the benefits of conference affiliation in everything but football without sharing any of their football revenue with the conference. Yeah, I understand that their deal with the ACC requires them to play something like 5 ACC schools each year, but it still really bothers me that we made this deal.

The only ACC school that should get special treatment is the “school” from Chapel Hill, and they’ve certainly earned it.

[AGDukesky]

Definitely pulling for Syracuse especially since Notre Dame remains out of the ACC.

So a Pitt win combined with a Virginia loss would make Pitt the Coastal champs...

[75Crazie]

Doesn't Pitt clinch the championship game with a win today, regardless of what UVA does, because of their head-to-head win?

[Bob Green]

Doesn't Pitt clinch the championship game with a win today, regardless of what UVA does, because of their head-to-head win?

Yes, and Pitt is up on Wake 20-10 at the end of the 3rd quarter.

[PackMan97]

State pulling away from the cards 38-3 to start the 4th

[Bob Green]

Final: Pitt 34, Wake Forest 13. The 5-6 Demon Deacons will be looking for win #6 and bowl eligibility next week at Wallace Wade Stadium. Duke will need to be ready to take care of business.

[OldPhiKap]

Final: Pitt 34, Wake Forest 13. The 5-6 Demon Deacons will be looking for win #6 and bowl eligibility next week at Wallace Wade Stadium. Duke will need to be ready to take care of business.

Hate this result for several reasons. Mainly, as you say, they are coming to Wally Wade in a must-win game.

(Which we did to them last year in W-S).

[chrishoke]

Western Carolina jumps ahead of the heels 7-0.

[HereBeforeCoachK]

Hate this result for several reasons. Mainly, as you say, they are coming to Wally Wade in a must-win game.

(Which we did to them last year in W-S).

Exactly - what's interesting is that Wake must have sold out to stop the run. Pitt averaged only 3.3 per carry today...but had a ton of passing yards. Probably going to have to light it up with the pass against them...

BTW, with Wake in the Atlantic Division, how is it we play them every year? (or does it just seem like we do)

[Acymetric]

Exactly - what's interesting is that Wake must have sold out to stop the run. Pitt averaged only 3.3 per carry today...but had a ton of passing yards. Probably going to have to light it up with the pass against them...

BTW, with Wake in the Atlantic Division, how is it we play them every year? (or does it just seem like we do)

Wake is our permanent cross-over partner, so we do play them every year.

[HereBeforeCoachK]

Wake is our permanent cross-over partner, so we do play them every year.

Ah, thanks....meanwhile, we never ever see NC State....not sure I like this "perm cross" program....

[Acymetric]

unc goes for (and recovers) an early onside kick in an effort to pull off the upset over Western Carolina!