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College Football Realignment – Turning the ACC into a North/South Conference

Posted on 1 May, 2013, by in Football

Not everything in college football realignment is about changing the face of the conference by adding or losing schools. Sometimes, a conference can become stronger and more appealing by making changes from within, like the ACC should do by dumping the coastal and Atlantic format, instead turning to a North-South division format from 2014. More

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Notre Dame Fighting Irish – An ACC Team from July

Posted on 12 Mar, 2013, by in Basketball, Football

It wasn’t a surprise, but it was probably the final nail in the coffin of the former Big East, which will have a new name by the time Notre Dame joins the ACC with all of its athletic program, except for the football team, for now. More

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Best ACC Players Heading into the 2013 Season

Posted on 6 Mar, 2013, by in Football

Florida State won the ACC in 2013 and later a BCS bowl, but lost a lot of talent to the NFL draft. Clemson, with Tajh Boyd and Sammy Watkins, look like the team with the most impressive individual talent, while the Seminoles return imposing linebacker Christian Jones. More

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2013 College Football Schedue – FBS vs FCS Teams

Posted on 5 Mar, 2013, by in Football

Out of the 125 teams in the FBS, 106 will play against FCS teams in the 2013 season, as the non-conference schedule was completed last week. The trend of scheduling an easy win on the home games list continues, mostly in an attempt to get enough wins and become bowl eligible. More

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College Football Realignment – Big Ten Trying to Swallow the ACC

Posted on 21 Feb, 2013, by in Football

In 2014, the Big Ten, or B1G as others prefer, is going to be a 14 team conference, wit Maryland (from the ACC) and Rutgers (from the Big East) joining the conference that’s mostly been about the Midwest for so many years, but in its own attempt to become a Super Conference, is leaning South, trying to break up the ACC. More

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College Football Realignment – Big Ten Breaking Up the ACC

Posted on 20 Jan, 2013, by in Football

The direction College Football is going, we’ll be left, in the end, with four Super Conferences while the rest fight for scraps. The Big Ten, which has added Maryland and Rutgers (both joining in 2014) in the most recent act of conference poaching, are eyeing quite a few ACC schools: Florida State, Virginia, Georgia Tech and possibly even Duke and North Carolina. More

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Most Valuable Conferences in College Sports

Posted on 17 Jan, 2013, by in Featured

Football generates most of the money in College sports, and then comes basketball at a distant second More

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Florida State Seminoles – Soon a Big 12 Team

Posted on 5 Dec, 2012, by in Football

There’s no stopping progress, and it seems to constant tectonic movements in College Football aren’t over. Next up on the realignment schedule? Florida State thinking about joining the Big 12, leaving the ACC, or at least hoping to. More

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BCS Bowls – All About the Money

Posted on 28 Nov, 2012, by in Football

College Football and bowl season are about one thing: Making money. That is why there hasn’t been a playoff and why the one installed is a limited, disappointing ones. Teams from the AQ conferences: The SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Big 12 Pac-12 and still the Big East don’t want to give up on the nearly $200 million that will be paid out by the BCS to the conferences represented in the five BCS bowls. More

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ACC – Who Will Reach the Conference Championship Game

Posted on 15 Nov, 2012, by in Football

The ACC Coastal isn’t one of College Football’s most formidable divisions, but the race to win it is a pretty exciting one. Three teams: Miami, Georgia Tech and Duke (!!!) still have a chance to win it and face the winner of the ACC Atlantic, which will probably end up to be Florida State. More