Well, the Big 12, since 2017, has had a playoff between its two top teams, despite having only ten teams. The ACC -- this season -- has 15 teams; other times, 14. The ACC won't be denied a conference championship playoff and will play one this year on some Saturday in December, Deo volente.
And, of course, Austin Deveil beat me to it.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
My apologies for derailing the NCSU game thread by expressing my disappointment about watching this game on TV. It's only 7-10 minutes from my house.
I will offer one OT thought. Most ACC schools probably would be happier with a 3+5 or 4+4 format than divisions if we can do it. Most Big 10 and a few SEC schools probably feel the same way. I think divisions are probably toast in 2021 and beyond.
Doesn't NCSU play the same base defense as Syracuse?
We can win this game if touchdowns > turnovers. We can't be -4 or -5 in that department and win.
I'm with you. I waited 11 years to go back to Carter-Finley since the last game there, and I'm now actually closer to C-F than I am to WW. I'll miss being there (as I have been every game so far this year.)
Let's have the only turnovers State gets be from Pillsbury. We do that, we win the bake off, I mean game.
We have been assigned DirecTV 791 on ESPN College Extra. If your provider carries that package and you are outside the conference footprint, the game will be on the fourth channel set up for those games. One thing that is always unclear until the event is whether that channel will carry the start of the game if Liberty-Syracuse runs into the timeslot.
Uniform: white helmet with black Iron D, white jersey, blue pants.
Bob Green
I predict the Pack wins by 71 points. I might be wrong...maybe it was 17 points. The vision is not clear.
I fear that our view may be clouded by how distinctly awful Syracuse is. Hope I'm wrong.
Waiting for a fun, but worthless Bob Green prediction ()...
[redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.
In honor of Thad Lewis, I predict Duke 41, NCS 37. Go Devils!
"This is the best of all possible worlds."
Dr. Pangloss - Candide
State 35 Duke 24..sorry..Just not feeling it this week..
PackMan 31
OzzieMan 17
We'll be playing on the road in front of 57,583 x .07 wildly enthusiastic fans (plus cut-outs) and we still haven't improved the TO problem/s.
[redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.