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ACC "Duke"

Cam

I heard that snickering off in the corner

From the homer perspective, the Huskies. I'm not claiming them to be any kind of great team, like the VT crowd does.   Playing in the PAC-10 is hard enough as it is.     Few teams ever go undefeated in the PAC-10 during regular season play.  The conference schedule is too tough.   Unlike the ACC where teams are over rated (see Tech, Virginia) even a bad PAC-10 team can beat you on any given Saturday.  See a young Washington team taking down USC last week.   Ooops.   

From a who I'm pulling for this year, Oregon.   Ohio State has a brutal schedule coming up.   Oregon's isn't much easier, but if they can win over USC and Arizona, there's no reason they shouldn't play in the championship game.  I don't see Alabama getting beat.

And none of that changes the fact that VA Tech is one of the most consistently over rated teams in the NCAA.

Topdown,

   Why you gotta dis my Bluedevils

C'mon Man

LOL

Ok Topdown

  I see you did some great research there so I decided I'd do a little

Duke BlueDevils

17 Conference Titles
61 All American's
10 ACC Players of the year
11 College Football Hall Of Famers
3 NFL Hall of Famers

The most famous Duke football season came in 1938, when Wallace Wade was head coach and the "Iron Dukes" were born. Wade shocked the college football world by leaving Alabama for Duke in 1930, later rationalizing the move by saying that Duke shared his belief that a school should provide its athletes with a strong academic background. Wade's success at Alabama (three national championships) translated well to Duke's program, most notably in 1938, when his "Iron Dukes" went unscored upon the entire regular season. In fact, that Duke team is one of three in college football history to have gone undefeated, unscored upon, and untied in the regular season.[citation needed] Duke reached their first Rose Bowl appearance, where they lost 7-3 when USC scored a touchdown in the final minute of the game on a pass from a second string quarterback to a third string tight end. Wade's Blue Devils lost another Rose Bowl to Oregon State in 1942, this one held at Duke's home stadium in Durham, North Carolina due to Pearl Harbor. Wade's achievements placed him in the Hall of Fame.

Cam

WOW, do we have some serious college feetball people here.  LOL 

My alma mater is a division 1-AA school that flops when it runs into a more serious program from out west or down south...(James Madison, delaware, etc.)  UNH, aka, University of New Hampshire, or CowHampshire if your one of those tourisma from massatwos***s.  ;p

I'm not sure where you got your PAC-10 numbers, but five teams in the PAC-10 have held titles in that time frame.  Washington, USC, UCLA, Cal, and Stanford.

If you subtract out Miami and Florida State, which didn't join the ACC until recently, that number drops to somewhere around 2 ACC teams ever holding a national title.  Georgia Tech and Clemson.

That VA Tech left the Big East (a.k.a.  The Big Least) to join the ACC, and considered it a step up highlights my point even more.  They went from beating football juggernauts like Cincinnati and UConn to Duke and NC State.

That about sums it up.  Washington is the home town team.  They've struggled over the last couple of seasons, and aren't going to be competitive at a championship level for at least another two.  They could still beat half the teams in the ACC pretty much any time, though (James Madison!  Ha!).   But as a fan of PAC-10 football, Oregon is the best chance to take another national title (bringing the PAC-10 percentage to 60%).   I pull for the PAC-10 team over whatever opponent  they play.

The difference is I don't pretend that a bad Washington team is anything other than bad, just like I don't pretend that an over rated VA Tech team is anything other than over rated.  That is born out by their record against ranked teams, and their generally weak strength of schedule, due to playing in a generally weak league.

I know that you, not really knowing much about football, can't disambiguate your fandom from reality, but that's common amongst fair weather fans.  My team is #1!!!  Lawlz!

I don't fault you for it.  It's kind of quaint.

So you come to a music forum and complain that a sports related post got a little off topic? Welcome to chordie - that type of thing is pretty common around here and no one really gets uptight about it.

There are a bunch of sports related forums out there to choose from:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=nfl+football+forums

I signed up on ESPN sometime ago, but, it's such a pain to find things there.  So I rarely, if ever go there.  But, if you need sports or a place to comment and have the attention span to weed thru a lot of dreck, then got to ESPN and have fun. 

This is chordie, music is the main theme here, all else is fun and frivolity and friendship.  Sort of like a family friendly pub and/or coffee house.  We banter, bicker and exchange ideas. 

Peace

no nerves struck,  welcome to chordie, there are tons of college fans,I was brought up on the good ole CFL, that other Canadian game.
These post take all kinds of turns and twists.

badeye   

I've been a Cowboys fan for over 35 years and never have I seen a team with so much talent playing at such a low level. The blame falls solely on the coaching. I'd love to see how good we could be with the passion Singletary brings to the game. Or  Bill Cowher... Are you watching? JJ needs you and he's got plenty of $. Phillips and Garrett have got to go!

At least my 'Canes are 2-0! It's great to watch kids with with hustle and passion.