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Anyway after watching insanely too much football today and Thursday I have concluded:
The ACC sucks. Really badly...really really badly. The SEC does not have a Vanderbilt any more to mock. Vanderbilt looked really good in destroying a weak opponent and got a shutout. The weakness of the ACC?
Lets look:
Alabama 34
VT 24. No shame in this game, Beamer looked like he always does, he has athletes on defense. Tyrod "T Mobile" Taylor" looked like Mike Vick if Vick was stoned, and had just walked out of prison onto the field with cramps in his throwing arm. Unless they can run a lot this year, they will do well against all the crap in the conference and lose to FSU and probably GT.
Maryland who I took because of the points is losing currently 45-13 to Cal.
Georgia Tech beat Jacksonville State
37-17. A real team does not let you win when you fumble five times Ga Tech.
North Carolina 40-6 over the Citadel. My team just beat Western Kentucky, so I cannot criticize this one too much. Butch Davis really seems to have a team this year.
Boston College 54 Northeastern 0. Northeastern is only worse at one thing than football, having pretty girls on campus. As a friend who attends a different school in Mass with a 60-40 girl guy ratio is fond of saying, "the odds are good but the goods are odd".
Baylor beat Wake Forest 24-21. This is one of the better teams in the ACC losing to a team that historically could not be more awful from the Big 12. I think however that Baylor wins 8 games or so this year, and their QB becomes famous, and this loss does not look so terrible.
Clemson 37-MTSU 14. Wow. Better than getting your face torn off by Alabama Tigers...
William and Mary 26- Virginia 14. William and Mary is famous for being the oldest University in the U.S. and for having period costumes and being near some sweet roller coasters. If you were surprised they even had a football team, so was everyone else.
Richmond 24- Duke 16.
Any Vandy fans want another crack at these guys? The saddest thing for Cutcliffe has to be not the loss to the Spiders but that Greg Paulus finishes up his basketball career at Duke and decides to become the starting QB at Syracuse. I hate everything and everyone associated with Duke on principle, but he looked pretty darn impressive today.
And finally
South Carolina 7, NC State 3 at NC State. Just awful. It was not that they both have amazing defenses, it was that they looked truly horrible.
So teams that make you want to punch yourself in the face if you are trying to make the argument that the ACC is as deserving of a BCS bid as the Mountain West conference would be, NC State, Duke and Virginia.
Teams that may not suck entirely this year but that already have a loss are Virginia Tech and Wake Forest.
No one in the ACC looks like they would stand a chance of beating USC or Texas or Florida even if they played 10 times. Maybe FSU or Miami will save the conference, but they should have to deduct 3 games from their win total for playing teams who look like they do not belong in a major conference.
Other lessons?
Oregon probably destroyed it's season with their loss of their RB, the injuries etc.
Kevin Prince of UCLA will be eaten alive by our defense. We may sack him 8 times and get 4 picks.
When we kill UCLA, people will say "but they were only 4-8 last year!"
It will help recruiting tremendously. Players on the board from CA include Bray, Dietrich Riley, George Uko, Shaw, Ronald Powell and Josh Shirley.
Also if you wanted to know why Kiffin does indeed plan on living up to his boast today on college gameday that we will have a number 1 recruiting class, you need look no further than how much our freshmen are starring. On defense it is less obvious, but it will not be next year if Jeff Luc and Ronald Powell are here (J Jackson did play) but on offense, our WR's and our RBs who starred were mainly freshmen. Recruits notice that stuff. We can promise the chance for early playing time, and we can deliver it. I loved Lamarcus Thompson today, and Reveiz is a gamer, but Jeff Luc could start at LB as a freshman.
The PAC 10 can offer USC and Cal as ranked teams this season. The Mountain West has more depth than the Pac 10. TCU, BYU, Utah and Air Force...Legit teams. TCU does not have a real game until September 26th when they play Clemson. They should beat UVA next week by 30 and Texas State the following week by 50.
What are your major lessons learned from watching football today? Still early, but some things have to stand out. I am not scared of the UGA game now at all, I know OSU was good but I think we are better. UF and Alabama look like losses, but I am eager to watch the Memphis Ole Miss game tomorrow to see if I am correct in my original thought that Ole Miss is overrated.
If so Vols we could be looking at 9 for certain!
The ACC sucks. Really badly...really really badly. The SEC does not have a Vanderbilt any more to mock. Vanderbilt looked really good in destroying a weak opponent and got a shutout. The weakness of the ACC?
Lets look:
Alabama 34
VT 24. No shame in this game, Beamer looked like he always does, he has athletes on defense. Tyrod "T Mobile" Taylor" looked like Mike Vick if Vick was stoned, and had just walked out of prison onto the field with cramps in his throwing arm. Unless they can run a lot this year, they will do well against all the crap in the conference and lose to FSU and probably GT.
Maryland who I took because of the points is losing currently 45-13 to Cal.
Georgia Tech beat Jacksonville State
37-17. A real team does not let you win when you fumble five times Ga Tech.
North Carolina 40-6 over the Citadel. My team just beat Western Kentucky, so I cannot criticize this one too much. Butch Davis really seems to have a team this year.
Boston College 54 Northeastern 0. Northeastern is only worse at one thing than football, having pretty girls on campus. As a friend who attends a different school in Mass with a 60-40 girl guy ratio is fond of saying, "the odds are good but the goods are odd".
Baylor beat Wake Forest 24-21. This is one of the better teams in the ACC losing to a team that historically could not be more awful from the Big 12. I think however that Baylor wins 8 games or so this year, and their QB becomes famous, and this loss does not look so terrible.
Clemson 37-MTSU 14. Wow. Better than getting your face torn off by Alabama Tigers...
William and Mary 26- Virginia 14. William and Mary is famous for being the oldest University in the U.S. and for having period costumes and being near some sweet roller coasters. If you were surprised they even had a football team, so was everyone else.
Richmond 24- Duke 16.
Any Vandy fans want another crack at these guys? The saddest thing for Cutcliffe has to be not the loss to the Spiders but that Greg Paulus finishes up his basketball career at Duke and decides to become the starting QB at Syracuse. I hate everything and everyone associated with Duke on principle, but he looked pretty darn impressive today.
And finally
South Carolina 7, NC State 3 at NC State. Just awful. It was not that they both have amazing defenses, it was that they looked truly horrible.
So teams that make you want to punch yourself in the face if you are trying to make the argument that the ACC is as deserving of a BCS bid as the Mountain West conference would be, NC State, Duke and Virginia.
Teams that may not suck entirely this year but that already have a loss are Virginia Tech and Wake Forest.
No one in the ACC looks like they would stand a chance of beating USC or Texas or Florida even if they played 10 times. Maybe FSU or Miami will save the conference, but they should have to deduct 3 games from their win total for playing teams who look like they do not belong in a major conference.
Other lessons?
Oregon probably destroyed it's season with their loss of their RB, the injuries etc.
Kevin Prince of UCLA will be eaten alive by our defense. We may sack him 8 times and get 4 picks.
When we kill UCLA, people will say "but they were only 4-8 last year!"
It will help recruiting tremendously. Players on the board from CA include Bray, Dietrich Riley, George Uko, Shaw, Ronald Powell and Josh Shirley.
Also if you wanted to know why Kiffin does indeed plan on living up to his boast today on college gameday that we will have a number 1 recruiting class, you need look no further than how much our freshmen are starring. On defense it is less obvious, but it will not be next year if Jeff Luc and Ronald Powell are here (J Jackson did play) but on offense, our WR's and our RBs who starred were mainly freshmen. Recruits notice that stuff. We can promise the chance for early playing time, and we can deliver it. I loved Lamarcus Thompson today, and Reveiz is a gamer, but Jeff Luc could start at LB as a freshman.
The PAC 10 can offer USC and Cal as ranked teams this season. The Mountain West has more depth than the Pac 10. TCU, BYU, Utah and Air Force...Legit teams. TCU does not have a real game until September 26th when they play Clemson. They should beat UVA next week by 30 and Texas State the following week by 50.
What are your major lessons learned from watching football today? Still early, but some things have to stand out. I am not scared of the UGA game now at all, I know OSU was good but I think we are better. UF and Alabama look like losses, but I am eager to watch the Memphis Ole Miss game tomorrow to see if I am correct in my original thought that Ole Miss is overrated.
If so Vols we could be looking at 9 for certain!
