The good, the bad and the ugly

The good: Call it the ACC Nation kiss. Before the season, ACC Nation previewed all 12 ACC football teams, including three - Clemson, Boston College and Wake Forest - with their head coaches.
After Saturday, two of those three - BC and Wake - were undefeated and the third, Clemson, beat Florida State in Tallahassee.
Granted, Wake has only played nobodies, but the Deacons aren't exactly a somebody on the national football scene. Anytime Wake Forest is unbeaten in football it is news. And with the win over UConn, Wake is unbeaten in football.
Boston College struggled against Central Michigan; got out played by Clemson, but managed to win in double overtime, and had to hang on for another double-overtime win on Saturday, this time against BYU. Still, undefeated is undefeated.
And even with that loss at BC, I'll stick by my claim that Clemson is the best team in the ACC (OK, I know I picked FSU to beat them Saturday, but I consider it a moment of insanity). Clemson's offensive line is the best in the conference, its quarterback is improving with every game and the Tigers have three excellent running backs.

The bad: You may have noticed I didn't include Virginia Tech in the good. Yes, the Hokies are unbeaten, but they've played no one of consequence. And, unlike Wake, Virginia Tech is a somebody. Beat someone then we'll talk.
I will include Tech, or at least a Tech player, in the bad though. Tech's Aaron Rouse put a vicious, and dirty, hit on Duke's quarterback, Thaddeus Lewis. Frank Beamer should have removed him from the game, but he didn't. After the way the season ended for Virginia Tech last year, any player that does something that comes close to dirty needs to be dealt with swiftly. Rouse wasn't, and that lands Tech in the bad this week.
North Carolina's defense is also in the bad. You can't give up 42 points to a Division I-AA team and avoid the bad. John Bunting's time remaining in Chapel Hill is now down to nine games. Thank goodness.
Miami's loss to Louisville also comes under bad. And Larry Coker will be joining Bunting on the unemployment line once the season is done.

The ugly: NC State could get this award, but after losing to Akron last week they are now enshrined in the ugly hall of fame. Virginia is now are newest inductee, after losing at home to Western Michigan. Coach Al Groh defended his use of three quarterbacks by saying none of the three can produce, which is what he sees in practice everyday. At some point someone needs to ask why that is the case. Groh recruits these players and if he doesn't have a quality quarterback, isn't that his fault?
Here's a vote for Vic Hall, who was moved to defense in the infinite wisdom of the coach staff, to be the quarterback. Hall passed for over 8,700 yards and ran for another 5,000 while in high school, and, despite his lack of size, he is possibly the best quarterback in the program. And he's playing defense. He was moved there last year out of necessity. This year he should be playing quarterback for the same reason.
- Patrick Hite