“I like it a lot better when number five is out there”. The quarterbacks were Homer Jordan and Scott Stankavage.
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ACC Trivia, Championship Edition (answer at the end of the column): In what year did Clemson and North Carolina last meet in which both teams were ranked, and, since this is a site devoted to scheduling, what was unique about Clemson’s schedule that year? His great play all year has made the Tigers an elite team and even earned him ACC Player of the Year honors. The Tigers won, 10-8, when Stankavage threw a lateral on an attempted swing pass in the final 75 seconds of regulation. Here is the pick against the spread for the Clemson vs UNC match-up.
The nation’s top side, which is allowing 18.8 points per game on defense, will start as a 5-point favourite this weekend against North Carolina, which is averaging 41 points per game.
“Seasoned” might sound like a weird adjective to describe a sophomore, but consider all that Deshaun Watson has seen since arriving last season: A heartbreaking, prime-time loss at then-No. The other – Marquise Williams of North Carolina – owns a skill set that greatly exceeds what Stankavage brought to the table. “That is our No. 1 key to victory in every game we go into, is taking care of the football, and if you go back and look in the games that we didn’t turn it over at all, we’ve been pretty dominant”. Clemson’s a better team, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be better Saturday night.
The other details about Clemson-UNC?
The eighth-ranked Tar Heels won’t have starting safety Sam Smiley when they take the field against No. 1 Clemson in the ACC Championship game Saturday after the school announced Thursday that the senior is out for the year with a torn left Achilles tendon. The Tar Heels are the lower-ranked team in the matchup because they lost to SC.
And Clemson certainly has the all-time edge over North Carolina. You can’t make this stuff up. No, he isn’t UNC’s best player – that would be running back Elijah Hood. A swing pass that should have been thrown forward was instead thrown backward.
Maryland suffered its first defeat Tuesday night, an eight point loss to the No. 9 North Carolina Tar Heels on the road at the Dean Dome.
North Carolina has been the underdog story of the season. Williams needs to score points and count on his defense to help out with Watson. The Tar Heels rely on No. 5 to take over games and make the necessary big shots, as evidenced by the last few seasons. If he’s wrong, Clemson will win big.
It is, quite simply, the most anticipated college football game in Charlotte history.
The Tigers have lost the turnover margin in six games, yet coach Dabo Swinney’s team continues to win. Crowder has been bothered by turf toe since the November 7 game against Florida State, but returned to action last week at SC. A victory over Michigan State (11-1) will quell criticism of the Hawkeyes’ schedule. The Sooners beat powerhouses Baylor, TCU, and Oklahoma State in successive weeks to end the season with a bang and unlike past year there will be no co-champs splitting the votes for the lone Power 5 conference without a title game.
College football has been nuts this season – and it seems to have carried over to the college basketball season already. In games UNC hasn’t played a quarterback like Watson.
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The defensive players at Clemson can say the same. It’s more than likely that the ACC fields a spot regardless of the outcome, but stranger things have happened in the world of sports.
Clemson’s defense has been stellar all season.
With the ACC Championship scheduled with the Tar Heels on Saturday against the Clemson University Tigers, McCrory once again waged with Haley.
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So much about college football is different in 2015, relative to 1981.
