ACC Football: Week 6 (10/4-10/5)

Thanks for the link to the article. Is it just me or have the additions of Cal, Stanford and SMU brought new life to the ACC? Before we were moaning about the demise of the conference now Cal is getting GameDay. Plus its collective is potentially going to be $2mil richer. The ACC could just become the smart boys football conference that actually plays good football. Something many of us have wished would happen for years. The Cal twitter stuff has been fantastic. Sorry we don’t play this year as would love to see their clever putdowns of us Dukies. Sure they will have some for our basketball. Such an elevation from the basic kindergarten putdowns of UNC and Kentucky fans.
Agree completely. I was happy when those three joined and am even happier now. Looking forward to some fun road trips.
 
Sounds like the Calgorithm at least partly led to Gameday’s selection of Berkeley. This article has a good overview of the phenomenon, including the background on how a fan commissioned a song about their running back, Jadyn Ott: Calgorithm ESPN Article


The commission cost a little more than $300 and the Swedish singer, Micky Hage, had been previously unaware that Cal football even existed. After she finished recording, she learned more about the Bears, including the fact that their mascot and her boyfriend go by the same name: Oski.

The song (a clean parody of this thematically NSFW original) has already gotten a positive reaction from college football writers Pete Thamel and Nicole Auerbach:


 

Narduzzi did not get into specifics about what prompted the change in Hammond's status.

"Everybody hates Carolina." Narduzzi said. "Isn't that reason enough?"
actually, that sounds kinda specific to me...
 
Neither team wants to keep a lead.
UNLV blocks a punt for the scoop n score*, game now tied 31-31.

*Blocked kick rolled like 40 yards into the endzone, all UNLV had to do was sit on it.
 
Syracuse had a pretty drive, then got a 15 yard flag for a chop block. Knocked them wayyy back. On their third down desperation heave, UNLY then is flagged for targeting. Gives them the 15 back, plus a first down, plus a player down. What a gift.

Edit, targeting waived, but still first down for 'Cuse.
 
If you didn’t watch GameDay at Cal you missed some celebration. Miami’s coach made a real derogatory comment about Manny. Something along the lines of you get hired as a new coach either because the old coach did great or the old coach left the cupboard bare. The best part was a kid who played soccer in high school, now a civil engineering major, blasted a field goal about 40yards, but to the right. The ESPN crew was incredulous at the length of his kick. So they gave him a second chance, offered him $100,000 instead of the original $70,000 if he made it and offered an extra $100,000, making a total of $600,000 for hurricane relief. He had on street shoes from Vanns and blasted it down the middle for a wild celebration.
 
Woke vs. Coke? Is this the sequel to Catholics vs. Convicts?


Apparently Cal students and fans saw no need to set their alarms for a 6am start time to College GameDay. They just stayed up, and broke down the barricades at midnight. (Local writer Avinash Kunnath: "UC Berkeley has maintained their commitment to open borders!") I guess they'll sleep when they're dead, or preferably in the afternoon before the night game.

Saturday Down South, among others, shared some signs on display this morning:

"I only do lines of CODE"
"Too busy with midterms. No poster time"
"Woke? I'm 'bearly' awake."
"I thought this was a protest"
"Florida Man mauled by bear"
"It's not all about U"
"ACC, and it's the same, but there's three more teams, so it's not"
"The Adams-Onis Treaty was a mistake"
"Our GPA is higher than your total yards"
"Miami is backup U"
"Cal invented the 5-lateral return"
"FSU's lawyers went to Miami"
 
Miami’s coach made a real derogatory comment about Manny. Something along the lines of you get hired as a new coach either because the old coach did great or the old coach left the cupboard bare.
That should make some good bulletin board material come the last week of the month.
 
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