From: mchenry@BAEPV2.NCSU.EDU (MCHENRY@BAE.NCSU.EDU)
Subject: Re: ACC Games this week.
Reply-To: mchenry@BAEPV2.NCSU.EDU (MCHENRY@BAE.NCSU.EDU)
Organization: North Carolina State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:32:01 GMT

>
>VIRGINIA AT NAVY:  Cakewalk #1 on the schedule for the 'Hoos. They looked
>pretty sloppy starting off against Maryland, but once Goodman got
>going, things looked OK. Virginia needs a tune up before hosting
>Georgia Tech next weekend. 
>Virginia 30 Navy 14
>

I really liked Goodman vs Georgia Tech last year. Navy's a fun place
to watch a football game, I went to a game there a few years ago and
really enjoyed the atmosphere . Navy of course was getting blown
out at the time.



>FLORIDA STATE AT CLEMSON: Defintely the game of the week and it
>may decide the conference champion early on. I think Clemson will be
>very fired up to prove that FSU is not going to come into the ACC
>and roll over them. FSU won by 27 points last week, but there were some 
>disturbing signs such as Charlie Ward's 4 interceptions and the fact that 
>Duke could score 21 points against FSU's defense. Clemson had a tougher
>game than expected, but pulled everything together to win. On a hunch...
>Clemson 17 Florida State 16
> 


I agree with you here, I think Clemson will win. Playing at Clemson
is tough enough but with the players and crowd fired up it will be
even tougher. I think one of the reasons Clemson had trouble with
Ball State is because they were thinking of this game. 



>DUKE AT VANDERBILT: I confess I don't know very much about Vandy. Duke
>was expected to be pretty bad this year, but they played solid against
>Florida State. I tend to think this is the result of being fired up 
>to play a top-10 team and that was probably the best they can do.
>I'll give Vanderbilt the edge because of the home field.
>Vanderbilt 27 Duke 24
>

I'll go with Duke . Duke 31 Vandy 21 .




>WESTERN CAROLINA AT GEORGIA TECH: Georgia Tech's opener - this will be
>the first chance to see what Bill Lewis has done with the squad. Shawn
>Jones returns as the starting QB, but Tech has lots of other holes to
>fill. This week should be no problem - a warm-up for next week's game
>in Charlottesville. 
>Georgia Tech 24 Western Carolina 10
>

Western has fielded some bad teams in the past couple years. The
score may be more lopsided maybe 38 to 10 .



>NORTH CAROLINA STATE AT MARYLAND: NC State's defense should be too tough
>for Maryland's run-and-shoot offense. State is playing solid football
>right now with a win against a I-AA opponent last week. The only thing
>that could hurt the Pack is if they get caught looking ahead to
>Florida State next week. 
>NC State 21 Maryland 7 
>

Maryland took State to the wire last year. I still agree that State
should win by about two touchdowns.




>FURMAN AT NORTH CAROLINA:  The first of 2 easy games for the Tar Heels,
>with Army visiting next week. UNC was impressive in their opener against
>Wake Forest and they appear to be much improved this year, as everyone
>expected.
>North Carolina 24 Furman 14
>

Mack Brown has pointed out to his players that Furman took Georgia Tech
to the wire the week before Georgia Tech blew out UNC last year. Furman
is a tough I-AA program. Are they ranked this year? Score sounds
pretty good. UNC's easy non-conference schedule may hurt them.





>APPALACHIAN STATE AT WAKE FOREST: This is one of Wake's few chances for
>a win this season. Appalachaian State is a pretty good team though and
>should give the Demon Deacons a tough game.
>Wake Forest 17 Appalachian State 12
>

Poor Wake, it only gets worse for them. They wanted UNC bad last week
but simply didn't have the personel to do it. Only having 23,000 show
up for the game many of whom were pulling for UNC certainly didn't
help their cause. Appalachian has beat the Deac's 2 out of last 3 
times the've played(I think the other time was a tie).



>-- 
>Charlie Cockrell                          VV     VV 1991 Men's Soccer Champs.
>NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. VV   VV  1992 Men's NIT Champions  
>U.Va. School of Engineering, Class of 1990  VV VV   1992 Women's ACC BB Champs.
>(These are my opinions only)                 VVV     NCAA East Regional Champs.
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