The newest midmajor
This is not going to be a good weekend for ACC football.
Tell us something that we don't know.
Yeah, well, if it wasn't plainly obvious before, last night's debacle in Morgantown gave us another kick in the shins.
Saw it. Turned it off in the second quarter.
West Virginia beat Maryland 45-24 in front of a national-television audience - and ladies and germs, it wasn't nearly that close.
Don't know why we kept it on that long, honestly.
The Mountaineers, in my view the weakest top-five team in recent memory, had a 28-0 lead after the first quarter and had hung 38 points on the Terrapins by the half.
Honestly, if Rich Rodriquez hadn't called the dogs off, the 'Neers could have easily hung 60 or 70 on Ralph Friedgen's overmatched squad.
It was brutal.
So this is what we get from a team that my cohost thinks can win seven or eight games this year?
Wow - and on top of North Carolina State's loss to Akron, which coach Chuck Amato punctuated by complaining about the unfair advantage that Mid-American Conference teams have, and Virginia's 13-12 escape over Wyoming, which coach Al Groh punctuated by comparing the missed Cowboys extra point that gave his Cavs the victory to the Super Bowl that the New York Giants team that he served as an assistant on won over Buffalo ...
And then there's the Florida State come-from-behind win over Troy at home, which has people in the panhandle talking about how the Seminoles had just found themselves caught in a trap game after their win two weeks ago at Miami and before their game this weekend with Clemson.
Lots of excuses there.
Indeed - and we're going to hear more of them next week.
Miami is at Louisville, N.C. State is at Southern Mississippi, Virginia has a home game with Western Michigan ...
Stinks being a fan of a midmajor.
I agree.
- Chris Graham