Quite a Crappy Week 1 for the ACC
By Larry Brown September 7, 2009 - Posted in College Football

When it comes to college football, there isn’t much more fun than breaking things down and comparing conferences. For instance, the common thought is that the SEC has had the best football for the past several years and that they were the top conference entering the season, along with the Big 12. The Big Ten’s lost some respect because of their losses to the SEC in the title games and the prevailing thought that they don’t have enough speed. The Mountain West’s been trying to assert itself as a big-time conference and it sure helped its case with BYU beating Oklahoma. The WAC got a boost seeing Boise State beat Oregon. But the conference whose reputation took the biggest hit on Saturday? The ACC, without a doubt.

North Carolina and Georgia Tech handled their cream puff games pretty well, as did Clemson and Boston College. Virginia Tech may have only lost their neutral site game to Alabama by 10 points, but they were out-gained 498 to 155. Ouch. Wake Forest lost at home to Baylor, which hasn’t won more than five games in a season since ’95. N.C. State couldn’t muster up more than 133 yards on Thursday against South Carolina and lost at home 7-3. Maryland got blitzed by Cal 52-13. Oh yeah, and did I mention that both Virginia AND Duke got beat by Division 1-AA schools? Yes, William and Mary and Richmond both got to put a “1″ in their win column before UVA or Duke did. That’s sad. Hey, at least they have basketball!

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Larry Brown has over nine years of professional sports media experience, working in online, radio, and TV capacities. He recently was a nationally syndicated sports radio host. Follow him on twitter @LBSports
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1 comment
  • Aaron

    How can you say that yes w&m did beat virgina and some other teams in the acc lost but at the same time the best game of the week bye far was
    Miami at Fsu.

    Both teams look they are well on there way back to the promise land.

    Miami has an explosive offense. The key for Miami will keeping Jacory Harris heatly because of their week depth chart behind him.

    And at the same time Fsu will suprise people this year also. Ponder looked like a changed man out there last night. Look for Miami and Fsu to be back on the national map by at the worst next year.