It's possible if the former HOF Bowl takes an ACC team, meaning ND if they can. You can put the ACC teams into 2 tiers at this point.
Tier 1: Clemson, ND, UNC. I think you can assume ND will go 8-4 since they still have BC/@USC left.
Tier 2: Everybody else with 6 wins today.
FSU might be the exception, particularly at 9-3. I feel pretty confident FSU is going to get a Florida bowl game. It benefits the ACC in terms of attendance and perception, and I'll argue they would beat UNC in Chapel Hill right now. Sagarin has Clemson #14, ND #15, FSU #16, and UNC #36.
Orange/Miami - Clemson or UNC by rule.
Tampa (nee Outback/HOF) - No ACC team, ND, or FSU. Expect no ACC team.
Orlando - FSU, ND, and UNC. FSU has not been here recently. ND has been here twice recently.
That leaves Jacksonville, Charlotte, etc., and it's anybody's guess there. A surging Duke team would be better than slumping NCSU and Wake teams for Charlotte, but we really needed another 3,000 Duke fans at the game yesterday.
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Jerry Palm projects Duke vs Minnesota in the Pinstripe Bowl.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...s/predictions/
Bob Green
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
I'd rather play our last game in Wallace Wade in front of fewer fans than away vs a hostile crowd. There are way more advantages to playing at home than just the fans in the stands. Travel free, familiar locker room, familiar field, and while maybe smaller, the folks that do show up are cheering for you.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
College Football News latest projection: Duke/Oregon State in El Paso
Action Network/McMurphy latest projection: Duke/Minnesota in NYC (w/ Minn an 11 pt favorite) -- https://www.actionnetwork.com/ncaaf/...=BrettMcMurphy
I'm taking my kids and nephew to it, just to support the team. I think its a noon game and it will probably be a ghost town, but I'm down to support the team strictly for the season they've had. If they beat Wake as well, then thats great too. I just can't envision how that team is going to either lose 5 straight or 4 of the last 5 (depending on how they play against Syracuse)
wrong thread...
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Of course we don't know the time yet (noon won't surprise me given Wake's collapse into irrelevance) but we'll be there on Blue Devil Alley tailgating just as we've done all season. You (and anyone else) is welcome to join us.
I promise, the menu will not have anything that was on your Thanksgiving table!
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
It's getting too far OT, but when the release is this late, there's almost always an 6 day option. We should prepare for noon with network TBD because OSU-MI is a noon game on Fox. Duke almost always plays at the same time as that's the one non-Duke game I want to see every year.
https://collegefootballnews.com/2022...s-week-11-2022
yes, CFN was slow getting it up, but it looks like the same week 11 projection, not sure how Yahoo got it first...(it wasn't up this morning when I looked, now it is).
Sports Illustrated projects Tulane/Duke in Birmingham: https://www.si.com/college/2022/11/1...pac-12-carnage
They also have the cheats in the Orange Bowl instead of Clemson. I don't think either one of these will come true, but there's a lot of things that can happen in the next three weeks. There is one bowl predictor site that actually has Clemson making it back into the CFP, which would require quite a number of games to fall a certain way.