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NCAAF Betting - A Down Year For ACC
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It’s
a case of subtraction by addition.
The Atlantic Coast Conference
is one of the strongest college sports conferences
in the entire NCAA. Its specialty is basketball,
but the ACC’s football profile got a serious
boost in 2004-05 with the arrival of Boston College,
Virginia Tech and the University of Miami from
the Big East. Those three programs have been among
the best in football in recent years. But what
have they done for the ACC lately?
The Hurricanes watched their
season fizzle out after an embarrassing mid-October
brawl against Florida International, going 6-6
SU and 3-7-1 ATS, missing out on a winning record
for the first time in a decade. That cost former
national championship coach Larry Coker his job,
and sees Miami play Nevada at the MPC Computers
Bowl, the least important of the eight bowl games
the ACC gets to participate in. It’s difficult
to see the ‘Canes giving this one much effort.
They’re listed as 3.5-point faves with a
total of 42.5.
Boston
College and Virginia Tech fared much better, but
both teams endured rough patches during the year
and missed out on a BCS bowl berth. The Eagles
are in a particularly disheartening situation;
after starting the season at 7-1 SU (5-2-1 ATS),
Boston College lost at Wake Forest and Miami to
drop out of the ACC title hunt and finish the
year on a 1-3 ATS skid. That was enough for the
Eagles to slip all the way down the invitation
list to the Meineke Car Care Bowl, No. 6 in the
pecking order of ACC bowls. Worse, coach Tom O'Brien
bailed last week to take the head job at North
Carolina State. B.C. will try to regroup for its
Dec. 30 date with Navy, where the Eagles are 7-point
favorites, and the total is 47.
As for the Hokies, they blew a tire in Week 5,
losing to visiting Georgia Tech and again at Boston
College two weeks later (a game that featured
its own share of embarrassing conduct by Virginia
Tech players) as part of an 0-3 ATS skid. However,
of the three Big East migrants, Virginia Tech
goes into the bowl season in the best shape. The
Hokies won their last six games at a sizzling
5-1 ATS to land a spot in the Chick-fil-A Bowl
– formerly the Peach Bowl, and the best
of the non-BCS bowl berths for the ACC. This is
also a Hokies team that will be largely intact
next season and has plenty of upside. They’ll
face the Georgia Bulldogs at the sold-out Georgia
Dome as 3-point faves with a total of 38.
Check out all the NCAA Football action at the
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Posted on 12/14/2006 3:32:24
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NCAAF Betting - A Down Year For ACC
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