I’ve written a little in the past about the curious phenomenon that is Chuck Amato. He has done an incredible job of whipping up enthusiasm in NC State football. The passion of Wolfpack fans is at an all-time high, comparable with nearly any team in the country. The thing is, when you build a big…

Well, that certainly was a crazy, significant week of ACC football, wasn’t it? It started with that incredible last 6 minutes on Thursday night and ended with UNC knocking off Miami. Something tells me that people will long remember the weekend when the two Florida football powers were knocked off. Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech…

When Florida State entered the ACC in 1992, they immediately became the league bully, taking the other teams’ lunch money and stuffing them in lockers. For the first four years, they didn’t lose a conference game, and very few were even close. Finally, in 1995, Virginia broke through, beating the Seminoles in a thrilling Thursday…

This is a pretty good week in the ACC. There are no “big” games as far as national perception like there were the previous two weeks, but in three of the five conference games, you have teams at compatible levels trying to get a leg up on one another. Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech –…

Maryland at Clemson – I often completely miss the boat when predicting what will happen in these games. I’m not ashamed about it; it’s practically impossible to accurately say what will happen in a college football game. In this game though, “The Desperation Bowl” I called it, I got it right with this prediction, “[Clemson…

Things are a bit quieter this weekend in the ACC as there are only four games. Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Virginia Tech are all idle this weekend, healing up for the second half of the season. All four games are conference games, and two are somewhat critical, for different reasons. You’ll read why below.…

Louisville at Miami – Miami dodged a bullet in this one. I don’t know if they didn’t play their best game or if they just aren’t that much better than Louisville. Either way, the Hurricanes were extremely lucky to come back and win. If a Louisville defender doesn’t drop an easy interception late in the…

Louisville at Miami – Once again, I failed to get my preview out before a Thursday night game. I’ll tell you what I would have said though. I would have said that Louisville is a very good team and Miami better be careful. The Cardinals have had good quarterbacks and a good offense for several…

In case you haven’t heard, there’s a big ACC football game this weekend. An ACC game with national implications. That just doesn’t happen much in this league (for the purposes of this column, the Miami-FSU game earlier this season didn’t really count as an ACC game). In fact, the Virginia-Florida State game on Saturday night…

First off, let me say that this was one crazy weekend. The ACC is completely unpredictable. Right is wrong. Up is down. John Bunting can coach. It’s nuts, I say. It’s weekends like this past one that remind me why I don’t bet on sports. You can look at past performance all you want, but…