Wake Forest at NC State – Once again, I was a bit off in my prediction for an NC State game. I was right in that they won, but I thought it would be easier. This team is just difficult to figure out. I guess the same could be said of Wake Forest, a team that seems to be capable of playing everyone close. Maybe I should learn my lesson and assume that every game involving either Wake or State will be close.
While this game was certainly much closer than State or its fans wanted (or expected), it really was a pretty good win. Wake came in and smacked them in the mouth, rolling to a 14-0 lead while running the ball down State’s throat. The Wolfpack maintained composure though, tightened up their defense in the second half and came out with the overtime win. NC State is not a team that’s going to blow out too many teams, so it’s important that they learn to win the close ones. So far this year, they’ve done a good job with that.
For Wake, I think they played a great game. They had every opportunity to win and that’s all you can really ask for in a road game against a good team. The one really curious thing to me was that coach Grobe pulled QB Cory Randolph for freshman Ben Mauk. Mauk played well, leading the Deacs to two touchdowns, but I question why he was in the game at all. Randolph has played very well this season, maybe the best QB in the ACC so far, so I don’t understand the quick hook. Now, they have a bit of a quarterback controversy and that could spell doom for a team with little margin for error.
West Virginia at Virginia Tech – Hey, I got this upset right! And I’m pretty glad of it to. The Mountaineers needed to lose. Don’t get me wrong – I have nothing against West Virginia. My beef is with the idiot poll voters who put them in the top ten to begin with. Do you know why they were ranked so high? It had little to do with their 4-0 start. No, they were ranked so high because a bunch of overthinking analysts had looked at their easy schedule and guessed that they might go undefeated and play for the national championship. So, because their schedule was easy and they might win all of their games, the voters went ahead and ranked them high now, even though they had yet to earn anything. Ridiculous. They had to lose.
It was fitting that Virginia Tech was the team to knock them out, because the Mountaineers did the same thing to a similarly overrated Tech team last year. What goes around comes around.
North Carolina at Florida State – I think a pretty good barometer of the quality of North Carolina’s football team is this – I checked on this game and saw that it was 31-16 and thought, “hey, Carolina’s playing pretty well!” The next day, the articles in the newspaper said basically the same thing. At work on Monday, the Carolina fans said the same thing. So, this is what it’s come to. Carolina is happy with losing by only three touchdowns to a not-what-they-used-to-be Florida State team.
For Florida State, it was good and bad. Wyatt Sexton played fairly well, which is good. What’s not so good, is that they should have scored more points against the Heels. Don’t misunderstand, I think 38 points and a three touchdown win is fine. It’s just that if FSU is really as good as their ranking indicates, they need a more explosive offense. Carolina’s defense is bad. William & Mary scored 38 points on the Heels. Maybe FSU is just being conservative, but that has never been their style, so I think it’s more likely that they just don’t have a great offense this year. Teams can win without great offense of course, but that’s not the way FSU plays. They aren’t Ohio State. I have a feeling that this will hurt them at some point later this year.
The Citadel at Duke – Duke won. Yay! Now, they have to get back to playing real football schools. I hope they had their fun.
Miami at Georgia Tech – In my preview, I pointed to two issues for Miami in this game – would Miami be disinterested and how well would Brock Berlin play? The answers to both of those questions bode well for the Hurricanes. While they didn’t light up the scoreboard, their defense was just as dominant as it has been all year, allowing the Yellow Jackets only three points. Berlin also played well, despite losing some series (as was the pregame plan) to his backup. If he can stay steady and the defense can stay focused, this team could be growing into a legitimate national title contender. Like Florida State though, I wonder if they have the offense to match their mighty D.
For Georgia Tech, I’m more than a bit concerned about Reggie Ball, yet another returning QB who’s having troubles. He threw three picks for the second game in a row. The Jackets don’t have the luxury of having enough all-around talent to be able to withstand sub-par quarterback play. Ball has the ability to be one of the more dangerous double threats in the country. Instead, he’s looking more like a threat to his own team.
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