My thoughts

After the first weekend of college football, the ACC went 6-4 (there is one game left, but that's a conference matchup Monday Night between Florida State and Miami).

The good: Will Proctor, Clemson. He finished 13-of-20 for 166 yards and 3 touchdowns as Clemson rolled in its opener. He also had one interception. With the backfield that Clemson has, that's all that Proctor needs to do, and he'll only get better. I stand by my prediction of an undefeated season for the tigers.

The bad: Can someone go ahead and launch the Web site FireAlGroh.com? Where do we start after Virginia was embarrassed by Pittsburgh? The Cavaliers actually had a chance to make this a game coming out of halftime, but went minus 2 yards in three plays, punted and called it a game. As for quarterback, Mary Kate Olsen would have been just as effective as Christian Olsen for UVa. (although I don't think Ashley Oslen would have done as well). It will be a long season in Charlottesville.

The ugly: On most days, Virginia's performance would have earned this award, but not on a day after Duke was blanked by a I-AA opponent. Wow, Coach K and Team USA lose to Greece on Friday and Duke's football team plays like, well, Duke's football team on Saturday. What a great weekend to be a Blue-Devil basher. Maybe Ted Roof should look for an Division III opponent to open with next year. Then, I bet, the Devils would have a fighting chance.

Other thoughts: We've heard plenty of talk this summer about North Carolina's new offense. I'll give Frank Cignetti a break, figuring the need to still work some things out. What was most disappointing about the Tar Heels was the defense.
After making a big leap last year to the 42nd-ranked unit in the country, everyone around the Carolina defense said they weren't satisfied staying there. Apparently not. It appears they want to work their way back to triple digits.
Carolina's Larry Edwards called Rutgers a very average team after the game. I guess that makes North Carolina a very bad team.
Here's when you know it's not good - Rutgers comes in with a guy they are touting for the Heisman Trophy, and he's not the running back that kills you. Rutgers' Ray Rice rushed for 201 yards and three touchdowns (the Heisman candidate, Brian Leonard, only had 25 yards). The other ACC schools must be licking their chops right about now.

I kept seeing that ESPN will be showing, on one of its 3,726 networks, the FSU-Miami game with comments by Colin Cowherd. Is this supposed to encourage people to watch? I refuse to listen to him on the radio, so why turn on the TV to hear this guy?

Has Calvin Johnson gotten rid of the cobwebs from that hit by Notre Dame's Chinedum Ndukwe? Give Georgia Tech credit. They had a lead against the Irish, and had a bad, bad call go against them at the end. Maybe the Yellow Jackets are for real. And I liked what I saw from Patrick Nix, who took over calling plays for Tech this season.

During the Carolina game, it was the first time I heard Andre Ware announce a game (at least I don't recall hearing him before). He's not too bad.

The jury is still out on Virginia Tech this season. I couldn't tell much from the win over Northeastern yesterday. Sean Glennon did look good.

- Patrick Hite