Basketball Conference: The ACC Football Podcast

Joey and Mike effectively have a group therapy session after one of the worst weekends for the ACC in recent memory. Joey's Yellow Jackets lost to The Citadel, losing to an FCS team for the first time since the early 1980's. Meanwhile, Mike's Hokies had an exceptionally poor showing against FCS Furman, trailing at halftime before finally winning by a mere 7 points. Meanwhile, Boston College got blown out by a terrible Kansas team at home, NC State lost by 17 to a bad, rebuilding West Virginia team, and Pittsburgh badly blew a remarkable opportunity to upset Penn State. Elsewhere, Clemson rolled over a potentially bad Syracuse team, Wake Forest hung on amidst controversy to beat North Carolina, and....is Louisville secretly one of the best teams in the conference? PLUS, weekly awards and more!

Joey and Mike are previewing all of the Week 3 action in the ACC, where there's not a lot we'd consider too particularly interesting -- but we also have to acknowledge that those are the types of weeks that get the wildest in college football. North Carolina and Wake Forest are playing in a non-conference game on Friday night, around the same time that Boston College takes on Les Miles' weak Kansas team. Pittsburgh finishes their home-and-home series with Penn State on Saturday, NC State finally takes on West Virginia (after last year's game was cancelled for a hurricane), Florida State takes their instability to Charlottesville for a matchup with Virginia, and Clemson travels to Syracuse to avenge their most recent Carrier Dome trip -- a 2017 loss to the Orange. All of this, and MORE!

Mike and Joey are back, recapping a strange Week 2 in the ACC. Clemson made quick work of Texas A&M, with the game never in doubt after last year's thriller in College Station. Florida State got out to a huge lead before surrendering it back AGAIN, this time to Louisiana-Monroe. Mack Brown's North Carolina won again, this time against a Miami team that Mike picked to win the Coastal! PLUS, Joey gives his take on Georgia Tech's ultra-weird offense in a close win over South Florida, Mike was unimpressed with Virginia Tech's effort in a win over Old Dominion, and much more!

After a really fun, exciting Week 1 in the ACC, Week 2 is going to be...a different kind of fun. Joey and Mike preview all of the action, including:

All of this, plus ACC picks of the week and MORE!

The guys are back, recapping a fun Week 1 in the ACC that saw several really good games. Florida State blew a huge lead to Boise State in an impromptu home game and may have Willie Taggart squarely on the hot seat, Boston College looked really impressive in outcoaching and outplaying Virginia Tech, Virginia started off their attempted march to Charlotte with a win at Pittsburgh, and UNC and Wake got a pair of impressive out-of-conference wins against South Carolina and Utah State. Elsewhere, Clemson made quick work of Georgia Tech, Duke failed to hang with Alabama, and Syracuse looked great in an ultra-weird game against Liberty. All of this, plus our initial postgame awards of the year, and more!

After the appetizer that was the Miami game in Week Zero, ACC Football is back at long last with a HUGE Week One slate!

--The defending National Champion Clemson Tigers kick off the weekend Thursday night, hosting the first-ever game on the ACC Network against Joey's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets!

--Wake Forest plays host to a low-key DANGEROUS Utah State team on Friday night in a game that the Steamin' Deacons really need to win to get their season started on the right foot.

--Saturday features a pair of subtly CRUCIAL games to the outcome of the ACC, as Virginia Tech travels to Boston College and Virginia travels to Pittsburgh -- two games that will inevitably set the tone for the Coastal Division race and the conference as a whole.

--Duke joins Georgia Tech as 35-point underdogs (they're playing against reigning National Runners-Up Alabama), and Louisville is probably getting the business end of a game against Notre Dame.

All of that, plus the start of the Mack Brown era at UNC, a fascinating matchup of Florida State and Boise State, Joey and Mike make their inaugural 2019 Picks of the Week, and MORE!

Miami put up a valiant effort against #8 Florida in Week Zero of the 2019 season, but lost a heartbreaker 24-20 in Orlando. Cam Underwood from SB Nation's State of the U joins the podcast to recap everything from Jarren Williams' debut, to Miami's overall strong showing on defense, outlook on the rest of the season, and everything in between.

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The off-season is finally over and football is upon us. It's time for our 2019 ACC Preview, and we brought on friend of the show Josh Parcell of WFNZ in Charlotte, as well as the CFB Country Podcast, to help us break it all down.

We took previewing the conference from a different angle this year, asking many key questions that could determine the outcome of the ACC football season for many teams. In addition, we quickly previewed the Week Zero showdown between Miami and Florida, and gave some very early College Football Playoff picks.

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Our final team preview of the preseason covers the North Carolina Tar Heels, who got rid of Larry Fedora after a pair of lackluster seasons, and replaced him by bringing in Mack Brown...again. Will Mack and his staff form a cohesive bunch and a functional team strategy? Offensively, the QB situation couldn't be much murkier among a pair of sophomores and a freshman -- so who's the starter going to be? Does it make sense to just go with a full-on "youth movement" this year and prepare for 2020 and 2021? The defense was a major problem for Larry Fedora in recent years, but Jay Bateman ran a pretty stout defensive unit, especially for a program with restrictions like the ones at Army. Now at UNC, do his tactics "fit" with what the Tar Heels are going to do on offense? Finally, could this schedule be much less conducive to making a bowl game in year one of a new regime? All of this, and more!

Sports Illustrated's Ross Dellenger penned an excellent piece in Sports Illustrated on the cultural dysfunction of the 2018 Virginia Tech football team. Mike passionately reacts and provides his take on the entirety of the article, as well as what it means for the football program moving forward.

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