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An ohio state just missed the tieing 27 yard filed goal!
Just think this dude (Cignetti) was coaching 2 hours up the road from Blacksburg.
Dukes is going to win the ACC.
In the 12 team playoff they will decide if you're in regardless before Championship weekend (Alabama this year, SMU last year) or if you need to win your championship game to be in (BYU or UVA this year) they won't punish a team for losing its championship game by having an idle team jump them in the rankings and pushing the team that lost out of the playoff. They do not want to harm conference championship games no matter how much you think they favor certain conferences or teams over others.
This is a trash matchup, but Duke is playing a good game. Outside of being overly aggressive with a few defensive plays they have executed a solid game plan.
Thank you. This is the correct analysis.
This here's the battle of the weak!
oh I forgot the Duke upset, that was huge. and we still missed the tourney!
And just to show how big a grain of salt those numbers require -- that "top 10" UNC team rode that preseason ranking to a 6-6 finish.
Here's a good breakdown of coaches and their all-time record against ranked teams from summer 2025.
But I'd love to see a breakdown based on a team's final ranking, instead of whatever they were ranked at the time of the game.
I'd say some of this is on ESPN, and it's either by design or they lucked into it.
Earlier today, I was thinking that ESPN probably wished they hadn't locked the ACC game into primetime and should have swapped it with the Big 12 game. But then I remembered that the B1G game is also in primetime, so ESPN probably wanted to put their weakest offering up against it.
That being said, I don't know if the ACC has that many options. The only dome on the east coast is Atlanta, which the SEC has already claimed. And no one seems to like having the games in Florida (no domes, but better temps in December). And we're not bending to the newest additions to the conference, so anything west is out.
That game or the men's bball upset of Duke when hosting Gameday were the best sports moments of my time at tech. And they both occurred freshmen year lol
The renderings I've seen are a dome. Same company that designed/built SoFi, US Bank, Lucas Oil, and AT&T
The new stadium, being built on the old RFK site, will be partially (maybe fully) covered if the renderings I saw were accurate. It should be one of the most amazing sporting venues in the country when its finished.
These are the largest drops in the rankings after conference championships dating back to 2014, the start of the CFP era:
(I skipped 2020 because of covid, and 2015 because ESPN's site was being wonky and not showing me the rankings for the week I needed to look at.)
2024 - UNLV lost Mountain West by 14, dropped 4 spots.
2023 - Georgia lost SEC by 3 points, dropped 5 spots.
2022 - USC lost Pac-12 by 23 points, dropped 6 spots.
2021 - Oklahoma State (lost Big 12 by 5) and Oregon (lost Pac-12 by 28) both dropped 4 spots. San Diego State lost the Mountain West by 33 and dropped 5 spots.
2019 - Utah lost Pac-12 by 22 and dropped 6 spots (while Oregon rose 7)
2018 - Boise State lost Mountain West by 3 in OT, dropped 3 spots (while Fresno rose 4)
2017 - Auburn lost the SEC 28-7 (same score as Alabama today) and dropped 5 spots.
2016 - Navy lost American by 24 points and dropped 6 spots. No one else dropped more than 2 spots.
2014 - Wisconsin lost B1G 59-0 and dropped 5 spots.
The largest drop was 6 spots. And it appears that the larger drops mostly happened to the teams that were ranked higher going into the conference game and lost. In most of those cases, it looks like the teams basically swapped ranks (with a few adjustments based on other outcomes).
new email just sent. thanks
not to open up old wounds but rather be nostalgic, can't believe this was our last ACC championship year - 2010
Hard to find two schools much closer to Charlotte than Duke and uva. OTOH, hard to find two schools with much worse football attendance than Duke and uva.
Good. If lawsuits go both ways it'll force each side to simmer tf down.
Franklin is our ticket. We've hitched ourselves to his wagon in the hopes that he dominates the ACC until 2030 and when the ACC crumbles we get scooped up by the P2. Our administration must know that the only way into the P2 is to take football seriously and dominate the joke of a league we're currently in. That's Franklin's job. That's what he was hired to do. Make us a legitimate football program that is serious about winning.
It's our best (only?) shot.
That's Super Bowl Champion Kenny Pickett to you #gobirds
More ACC brilliance....
Other 3 P4: Dome, dome, dome.
ACC - outdoors at night in an area where sub-30 temps are possible.
VT needs to figure a way out of this conference of absolute stupidity at all costs.
Blacksburg is closer to Charlotte than DC. Just saying.
Attendance in Charlotte has been bad because it's always been a shit game. If we get back under Franklin, the crowds will return, as long as the opponent isn't someone like Duke, Wake or SMU
Its more about the fact that its Duke and UVA than the location.
VT, Clemson, FSU, Miami should be in it and you would not have this problem
My memory is a little fuzzy from that night after the wild turkey rare breed. I just remember Grimm having the night of his life, and I just checked again and Danny Coale is still open.
Here's the thing -- BYU (#11) and uva (#17) are both below the automatic cut-off point. uva can only get into the CFP by virtue of the auto-bid, and even that's assuming that they aren't ranked behind 2 G5 champs. BYU would have guaranteed a spot with a win today, even if it didn't change their ranking. (I think a BYU win would have completely shut the door on Miami, as Texas Tech wouldn't fall out of the top 11.)
The loser of the B1G game tonight probably won't fall past #2, but I don't see them falling past #7 based on the records of those teams.
#1 is playing #2 right now, #3 and #4 won their conference championships, and #5-8 didn't play. Those teams are set.
Then we have three conference champs competing for the remaining two autobids - Tulane (American, currently #20), JMU (Sun Belt, currently #25), and then either uva (#17) or Duke (unranked). There is no circumstance where any of them would jump up into the top 12.
That means we're looking at the teams currently ranked #9-12 to fill the last two available spots. Alabama and BYU lost their championship games, while Notre Dame and Miami are idle.
Notre Dame has to be safe, whether they get bumped up to #9 or stay at #10. (And for the record, I think Miami should be above them, but that's a completely different topic.)
What I think we're going to see is how the committee evaluates the teams between #9-12 and which two they put in as #9 and #10. For that reason, I don't think Alabama or BYU drops below #12, because it doesn't matter past that. The only rankings needed past #11 are for the remaining conference champs, but those bids are independent of the at-large rankings.
