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Monday, July 14, 2008 --- 46 days ago http://blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow/football-pre-preview
| Note: I will be on 850 The Buzz with Joe Ovies on Monday morning (9 to 10 a.m.) to talk ACC football. Here's the pre-preseason preview, moved over from the previous blog software, and bundled by division, for your convenience. • Atlantic Division • Coastal Division If you thought the ACC was bad last year, or the year before, or the year before ... brace yourself for 2008. The conference could be even worse, if that's possible. Attrition, either through the NFL Draft, graduation or suspensions, has hit the division champs, Boston College and Virginia Tech, hard. Traditional powers Miami and Florida State, who went a combined 12-13 in 2007, are no longer reloading but out-and-out rebuilding. FSU is doing so with the handicap of an academic scandal. The ACC, and Coastal Division in particular, is so bad that Duke could equal its combined win total since 2004 before October ends. But Duke, as the worst team in Division I-A football, is only a fraction of the ACC's image problem. The ACC's biggest problem since expanding in 2004 has been the lack of an elite, national-title caliber program. When FSU owned the ACC in the 1990s, they were a top-5 team every year and twice the national champion (1993 and 1999). The ACC hasn't won its BCS bowl since the Noles beat Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl for the '99 title. FSU was supposed bring the rest of the ACC up to its level. Instead the ACC has sucked the Seminoles into an vortex of mediocr ... |
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