Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast - ACC Football Thursday & Friday Specialty Matchups REVIEWED; Duke Bounces Back Against Louisville

Episode Date: January 24, 2024

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Who's ready for some specialty game conversations with ACC football. We have some exciting additions to our 2024 roster. We'll run through those as well as some ACC hoops. Find out who just made it back to business and who is still sort of falling short. You are Locked on ACC, your daily podcast on the Atlantic Coast Conference. Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. What on all on everybody. Welcome to today's edition of Locked On ACC.

I'm your host, Candace Cooper, joined by Kenton Gives of Locked on Wolf Pack. Each and every day you can find us wherever you list to podcasts. Make sure you download us, subscribe to the pod from anywhere and well, as well as join our YouTube space where you can subscribe. There it is to our channel. Talk to us in our community in the comments and always leave us five-star reviews because we always appreciate that. Now today's episode is jam packed because we got some specialty games to go over but

want to remind you that our episode is brought to by our friends at Fandul. We know you guys are getting in your, last minute NFL bets, but don't miss out on making every moment more. Right now, new customers get 150 in bonus bets guaranteed when you place a $5 bet. Visit fanduil.com slash locked on to get started. All right, we'd be silly if we didn't go over all the fun that's happening around our league, especially when it comes to ACC football. We know that we went over week one, gave you a little bit of tea.

Clemson, Georgia is, of course, the nicest one. But we've got some specialty games to add for Thursday, Friday, matchups that we feel like we have to go over because y'all are so invested already in January. Absolutely. How the 2024 season is going down. Kenton cannot believe people are already disinvested in ACCC, pigskin. You know, here's the thing.

I know what it is. Everybody want to get their get back. They want to take the crown off my head from the pick-um, you know? They want to take the crown off my head from the picker. And here's the thing, okay. Candice and I have discussed. We've lightly talked about doing a picking for basketball if y'all need to get scratched at edge. But we decided to not do it.

So you're going to have to wait until August to get your getting back. But don't work. Sure. I don't think basketball gives the same sort of vibe as football does. But as to that point, for those who are new to our show, can you please explain what we did for football season and kind of how we were. collaborative with our group. Absolutely. So what we did was he said, she said, the fans said, right? So there was my predictions for the week, Candace's predictions for the week,

the fan's prediction for the week. And whenever we had a guest that week, we also put up the guest pickers predictions. And I believe Brian Smith of Locked-on Seminoles had the best week in terms of total predictions, winning percentage in his predictions during his week. But I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, I'm going to say it like this year, okay? I've had multiple hosts reach out to me wanting to get involved. You know, last year, it was myself first, the fan second, Candace came in last, but it's all right. I don't like how you used the last word.

It was more so like Candace had to keep the show spicy and it would have been crazy if we picked the same thing every single week. So she decided to ruffle little feathers, okay? And sometimes she landed, sometimes she missed. Either way it went, we all had fun. And bring it up the rear with Ms. Cooper. And I'm okay with that because nobody likes a know at all. But you know what? But you know what everybody does like?

And you're too competitive to not be in making this fun. You have to do it. And that's your play. Listen, hey, we all have our testimony. Amen. I'm working. I'm working on being a better loser. But in my family, we threw away all the participation trophies.

And my family always said, show me a good loser. and you've just shown me a loser. That's just, that's what it is. You know, and I'm working on it. I promise you, I'm working on it. But, you know, that's neither here nor there. Heaven help your children. Heaven help your children.

Specialty games is where we're at, though. And we already, early pick-ums, I fear. Maybe we go ahead and throw a little ris-a-dazzle. Maybe throw a little my phone, right? Throw a little you-pick-em kind of conversation. I don't know. You decide. You're the community leader when it comes to this.

But we do want to go over the Thursday and Friday night lights that are happening around the ACC. So without further ado, week one has some specialties three, if you will. Thursday, week one, 829 will be Minnesota in North Carolina, which we discussed yesterday. We will also have NC State in Western Carolina. And we'll also have Wake Forest and A&T. And we talked about all those schools. If you miss out on the opportunity to hear from us, please check out yesterday's show. But just to give a quick synopsis, Carolina, expectations are sort of question mark.

NC State has everything ahead of them to be a really great ACC program and be at top of the leaderboard arguing towards the end of the year. And then Wake Forest, you know, maybe just be happy to be here this season. Maybe Coach Claussen is sort of, you know, adding to the resume, figuring out what he's going to do next. Who knows? But let me know if I summed it up properly, Kenton. You go for it. Absolutely. Absolutely. I think that that just about takes the cake there. And again, listen to our show daily. Go back to yesterday if you want to hear the in-depth razzle-dazzle to it. But today we just, we throw in the parsley on the food. You know, those IG chefs, they love themselves some parsley on there. So that's what we do. Is it parsley or chives? You know, they love both, but they really love parsley. Like they put parsley on stuff. I saw a parsley on the Hawaiian world other day. When I tell you, I was living, I was living when I said, why would you put parsley?

on the roll. Parsley doesn't have flavor, does it? No. It's literally just for presentation. What are we doing here? So that one time... The other head do have a flavor. They do have a flavor.

So that one time that I put parsley over my mac and cheese, that's probably why it wasn't a hit with the people. Huh. Okay. Okay. I already see the judgment in the comments coming from our friends. I watch the show. I feel like you're a craft mac and cheese, girl.

Do you bake the mac and that's disrespectful? because I do not do red dye number six. You know what I mean? I very much am a cook. Don't play with me. I'm from the South. Now you have to make the accent come out and we get real special. But I make great baked mac and cheese. Family favorite. I make it on Thanksgiving.

That's how you know it's a staple. Well, I bring my winning smile to Thanksgiving every year. Let's just be very clear. Bring my winning smile. Indeed. Just be clear. Culturally speaking, because we can keep it well versed around here. in a multicultural home,

specifically African Americans, you are not permitted to make the mac and cheese if you don't know how to make it. I don't know if you've seen that video where she was mad at the lady for experimenting. Don't experiment on Thanksgiving. Don't experiment. If you want to experiment,

you make it fun yourself. And she was right. Auntie was right. Granted was right. Whatever was she was right. You don't experiment on that. I'm just saying. Listen, listen, listen.

I liken it. I liken it to get into the ACC championship and experiment. That's crazy. That's crazy. You don't switch it up too much, right? If you've run the star concept all year and you have gotten that open all year and your quarterback's made the right read all year and when teams have been on that, you've run the star and go to counter off that all year, what are you doing out here all of a sudden becoming

a verticals team? Where do we get that from? Why are we running triple-on? option. Where did this come from? We love a little ex and those parsley razzle. Dazzle. All right. Week one, that's our full Thursday list. But there are more Thursday night actions,

right? Boston College will take on Virginia Tech at week eight on October 17th. Day after my mom's birthday. And I just feel like at that point, week eight, you love to say at week five, we know who a team is. But for these two teams, this could be

very much indicative of how their season ends. You know, I'll tell you this much, by week eight, we're still asking questions about these two teams. That's a good thing for Boston College, bad thing for Virginia Tech. If we know that Boston College is bad by this time, don't worry about it, halfway. You're up out of there, buddy.

But if we're asking, like, how good is this team? Which is where we were last year week eight with Boston College because it was like, you lost to northern Illinois, you know, And again, I'm going to stop betting against Casc Tech guys. Shout out to James Esther up there. But then you go on to have a five-game winning streak that includes beating multiple teams in conference. So it's a little help to sculpture there. But Virginia Tech, on the other hand, if we're asking questions about you, something's going wrong because they have done a pretty good job of bringing back a good amount of talent.

And they finished out the year very, very well. They finished out the year on a strong note, even without some of their stars in place. you're looking at a team that by week eight next year they should have some things to figure it out so if you're asking questions about boston college good thing if you're asking a question about virginia tech bad thing how many games is it going to take before we get tappley of out of the paint you hold that thought all right fans like i said NFL postseason is here do you want the eagles they're not there chiefs they're there whoever is your favorite all that you got to go to fan do america's number one sports book right now new customers get 150 in bonus bets guaranteed when you place a $5 bet. It's $150 in bonus bets win or lose. Visit Vanddual.com slash lock on

to make your first win a touchdown of Bandul is the official partner of the NFL. So, six games, seven games. Four games. What is it? I mean, I think if

Havley is going after four games, something's going horribly wrong. Like those boys have gotten the wheels whipped off him in those first four. But I honestly think that he's got a shot of staying because that's how much I believe in Castiano's. I think he's really special. I think he's really special. Have you seen the defense? There's two sides of the ball.

He's supposed to be a defensive wizard. There are. All right. There are. Just curious. But they got up in that portal and they may have addressed some needs. And I know to me, I'm going to say this. I'm not drinking the house.

Halfley Kool-A because I don't want anybody coming to me said, well, get last year, you just were so out on half-land. This year you drink it. I'm not drinking a half of Kuala. I'm drinking to Kassiano's Kool-A. Okay. Hey. You know how I get down.

So I'm cool on that. I can get with that. I'm just saying, I think that he can be, I think they can do enough to keep him for another year. But I think even if this year they get to that six-win mark again, okay, next year six wins won't be enough. Like, even with Kastiano, even with, You need more. You need more.

And they've done a good job of picking up some really big timebacks in the portal and whatnot. So, you know, we'll see what they can do in terms of, you know, adding really good pieces via recruiting in the portal. He definitely saved his job last year. He's still on that thin ice. Absolutely. Agreed. All right. Week 9, October 24th, we'll be another Thursday night matchup.

This time it will be between Syracuse and Pittsburgh. Now, by this point, week nine. Syracuse either is we're on the high from the new coach or we're saying, Pitt, show us who we thought you were these past couple seasons. Yeah. And you know what? Even if we're not on the high, see, here's the thing. These are two coaches that are in exact opposite positions.

Regardless of what Coach Fran does, they can win one game this year. Nobody's going to be ready to fire for him. It's first year. Well, not even that. Fran don't want to go nowhere. So he's saying. So it's like, how can you fight it? I don't want to go somewhere and it's Syracuse.

You feel me? Well, Dino didn't want to go nowhere. Dino was not looking nowhere else, but, you know. Dino was definitely looking, but go ahead. Well, Forever Orange Girls, everybody's going to be on my head. But all I'm saying is,

Dino had a, he wasn't doing enough. What I'm telling you is what I heard from Fran is, we tend to tell about this. I hear you. I, this city. City boys up right now.

On the other side of the city boys being up and whatnot. You've got Narduzi, who is a very long tenure coach who took Pitt to Heights that they hadn't seen objectively in decades. And the only problem is you also took them to lows that they had not seen in quite some time as well. And so now you're looking at a situation where the question becomes, how long can we let you get away with the team performing in this manner? How long? Because if we're looking at week nine and you've got six, five, six losses at that point next year, there's conversation.

You might be on the, you don't have to retire, but you got to get up out of here. Oh, absolutely. I don't think he's old enough for retirement. I think he's for sure. Other options. But also, like, I hear that in the same time. Everybody don't want to work today's 75.

And that's okay. You know, you know. He made enough money to where he could just relax, go talk on TV and do what he got to do, and clothing in his right mind. Like, we don't all have to be space cadets before we're like, you know what, maybe it's time to hang it up. I'm just saying.

We ain't going to say no names, but yeah, yeah, you know, we ain't got to be the U.S. center age. You ain't got to be U.S. center age before you retire, okay? Them folks. No. President. Week 13 has another Thursday night matchup. This will be 1121 where NC State will take on Georgia Tech.

Yes. How are you feeling? Because we know how you feel about both programs. in terms of key. You know how you feel about the pack, obviously. But these are two good teams that are set to have two great seasons by week 13. Yeah. So much could be done.

This could be a game with a lot of implications. This could be a game with a lot of implications. You know, NC State everybody talks about the law of the wolf in terms of when you expect the most. That's when you get to least. But this team just, something just feels different. Something just feels different. because last year people expected things out of the wolfback and they showed up right if anybody would have told you hey you get three different quarterback or you get multiple quarterback changes

you get your running back one running back two transfer out of program midseason you get all the things that you had happened in terms of losing so many safeties you were down to guys who were on the scout team at the season still with nine games what a shocker but then on the other end this is a Georgia Tech team that is. They're trending up and up and up and up, and they just keep getting better. And so this game could have a ton of implications because Key is building a great culture at Georgia Tech.

He's building a great culture in Atlanta. Do you know how hard that is? In the land of hookah and BBLs, you are building a great team culture. My brother, you are accomplishing something phenomenal. And so, and so, you've got to give a misguards when he's got it. And this is a situation where that game I'm going to be looking at with tons of

intrigue. And I'm hoping, I'm hoping that these ain't the same old yellow jacket. Well, I also think you have two coaches who have had patience from their administration to get it right, build what they want to build, build some sort of culture and legacy. and by now, you know, Boo Corrigan, NC State, Dave Doran, I don't see him leaving unless he wants to leave, right? Because there are certain ceiling that an next level of expectations we have for NC State for Georgia Tech as well.

I think that we give, like you said, give and due time. And I think this is kind of where they turn the corner and turn the page and have a really breakout. I'd argue this is a breakout season for Jordan's Tech. And you know what? Year two, this is his second full time or second four year as the head coach going into the offseason all that. And statistically speaking,

coaches are most likely to win a national championship within that first two, right? Other than the outliers of like a saving or something like that where it's like, hey, this is your 20. We still win. For the most part, you know, that first two-year window is where coaches generally get it done.

But again, he's built something special in Atlanta. He really is. I really believe that. And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. Y'all know me. I'll get on this end and I'll say, hey, he fooled me, he got me, you know. But I think that there's something good going on down there. And I, again, that's a game. It could mean a whole lot of nothing.

It could be a whole lot of something. Only time will tell. Only time will tell. Let's talk about our Friday night like matchups, right? We talked about week one with Duke and Elon, Stanford and TCU. If you have not checked out our episode from yesterday, do yourself a favor. Get in on that action because we talked about Stanford coming to the podcast. party, Duke trying to start out. And this is the Mani Diaz era of Duke, which I never thought

I would say Mani Diaz and Duke in the same sentence. But here we are. So we got all that in-depth analysis there. But week two features SMU and BYU. Right. And I just feel like on 9-6, I'm still getting used to SMU at that point, then being a part of the ACCC and having to talk about them each week. And, you know, I need to do my due diligence this January. Give me grace. I just don't know what I'm getting besides what I know to be 30 for 30 point express. So Kenton, if you want to enlighten, great. But if you wanted to say, give me some time, that's fair too. Oh, I absolutely love me some SMU.

Let me tell you something. SMU can't do no wrong by me and not just because of the 30 for 30, okay? Don't get me wrong. The 30 for 30 was very entertaining. It was amazing. However, SMU football has been, they have been on the up and up for some time, and they have always had these prolific passing games, first under Sunny Dykes,

then now you've got Red Lashley in there. That is an exciting team. That is a very, very exciting team. They are going to light up the scoreboard, but they also have some pretty good playmakers on the defensive side of the ball as well. They can also generate a turnover or two when you need it in that timely moment where you're like, oh, man, we really need to stop. I love me some SMU.

I'm excited to have them in the conference. I hope they do some good things. things here. You know what I mean? Somebody's got to be positive, Lord. I feel it. You're actually making me maybe more enjoy it,

but we'll see. I'm going to keep it level headed. I'm going to tell you, you're bringing in one of the biggest metroplexes in America and bringing Dallas into this ACC thing. Welcome on in. Come on. Take your shoes off.

Wake yourself at home, SMU. Can I take your pocketbook? Absolutely. Absolutely. It better take care of BYU as well. It better take care of it up. Amen somebody. All right.

Syracuse and Stanford, the Battle of the Strong Solid Block Eses, week four, 920. That'll be a Friday night light matchup. I think Syracuse by week four still filling things out. They're like, oh, hey, welcome to the party, Stanford. Like, who we know we're going to get? Like, I want it to be a good game in the sense

of a strong competitive matchup so we can feel like where it's good. We brought Stanford to the stage. I would not like them to curb stop. Syracuse because it would worry me that maybe everyone was right about the league. Like, there's just a lot that I don't know if I want it to blend yet or I want Syracuse to go ahead and let them know, like, welcome to the big leagues, you know? I mean, with all due respect, these are two teams that are very, man. You didn't know for me.

You didn't know for me. It's the true. I don't think that either one of these teams are. So you're supposed to be rooting for the OG. You're supposed to be rooting for the OG. Here's the thing. Here's the thing, okay. I'm a transplant.

in the ACC country. All right. I'm a big 10 country guy born and raised, but I'm a transplant into ACC. What does your degree hang up and say? It says this he's right. So you're an ACC guy. I understand that.

You're an OGACC guy at that. So I don't really appreciate it. Do we need to cut the mic? Okay, okay. We can cut the mic. We can cut the mic now. I'm just saying, you know what I mean? You're in a little talking about.

But no, very seriously. Maybe it's just me. I'm excited for these new teams. I'm excited for these new teams. And I'm hoping that I'm hoping they do well enough that it's not like, what did we bring? I hope they embarrass you. Because now, honestly, because you said that, I hope they embarrass you all season long. Why?

SMU and Stanford. I hope they embarrass you. Not the league. Just you. Just you. But my question is, why would you want that? Because it's going to make the league look worse. And, you know, according to many fans,

we get paid by Jim Phillips. So if we get paid by Jim Phillips and they're making the league look bad, maybe your check's going to get cut, you know? I can't get much low. My third eye is now open. Okay, I get it. I got you. Stay woke.

Stay woke, sister. Stay woke. All right. Virginia Tech, Miami, Week 5, 927. Mark it on your Friday night calendar. Virginia Tech, Miami. I'm excited. Oh, I'm deeped up.

I'm geeked up like Fabo. I'm geeked up like Fabo for this one. I can't wait. And let me tell you why I can't wait. Because these are two programs that, you know, Virginia Tech appears to be heading up, but so does Miami. And again, we don't ask the same questions of Virginia Tech

that we do in Miami in terms of, hey, y'all have the talent, but can you make it work? It's instead the exact opposite. Can you make it work with the talent you have? Because while I talk about Virginia Tech retaining a lot of their stars, and all that, they're still not the most talented team in the ACC. That's just a matter of fact. But the question is, can Pride get it done or can Mario get it done?

Who's going to get it done? And what will Mario's team look like by this point? What will Cam Ward and company look like by this point? It's a very important question to ask. This is fair. I kind of wish it was getting played in Lane Stadium on a Friday night, but, you know, I'll let it be. Now, Florida State and Duke. Week 8, 1018.

Now when we last left our Florida State heroes, they were having a little bit of a tussle with Duke, different quarterback, different times. Manny is very much, you know, the new era. But this is at Duke. And this is a Florida State team by week eight. We'll know if they're on the same charge as they were last season going undefeated.

Or, you know, a Duke team that's now used to punching people in the mouth, please, C.C. Clemson can come in and say, yeah, spoiler. You're coming into the Wade Wallace. Wallace Way, that too. Make sure you become ready to play. I don't think Flores said would be on a stage trajectory they were on last year.

But luckily for them, I don't think Duke is either. I think that this is a situation where, you know, you're going to need a little bit of a rebuild after I would go. And so. You think so? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. I don't see it.

You don't see it. And he has that pull? If Duke wins seven games this year, I would be shocked. We already put our money down. I would be shocked. And I mean legitimately, like, he needs coaching a year consideration if they win more than seven. We already have six. We did say six, right?

Just let me sure we are. We did say six. And I said I needed to look at their schedule before I bet that. So the money ain't on the grain. Y'all hurt me. Fins, y'all hurt me now because I don't want nobody coming to, hey, I'm getting. this is his friend. I need to collect $600.

Okay. Okay. All right. Six for six. Let me tell you something. My head coach is talking about biting kneecaps. I'll do what I got to do, okay? I'll do what I got to do.

Somebody cut in my door trying to collect $600 that I agree to. But the reality for this matchup is we think, I think that these will be two teams that aren't what they were last year, but I think Florida State should handle this one. I really appreciate people who listen to this show because the way we go off tangents is insane, but the way we come back is great. And I just really appreciate those who thug it out with us. I just had to say that. I wanted to break the fourth wall and let you guys know that.

I really do appreciate that. All right. Week 9, 1025, Louisville will be at Boston College. We'll happily be there by week nine. Who knows? But Brom certainly will be. And hopefully he'll just keep the things rolling. Now that we know Plummer won't be there.

Thank you, Slamtana, and the rest of the team, you know, a Mr. National Champion who lets know that plumbers no longer there. Can't wait to go over the full roster. You know, learn a quarterback. I'm not learning that in January. I'm just letting everybody that right now. So, and this game is at BC or at

Louisville? At BC. Okay. Now, last time when y'all went up there or when y'all went down there to Louisville, them boys ran y'all out that stadium. At the plum, pool. They were very unhospitable host. Did not give you

nothing. Nathan. You know when you go over somebody's house, they eat and they don't offer you none and you just sitting there? No, I don't know

that because I'm front of the South and we don't do anything. Okay. I ain't never been over nobody's house. They ain't offered me no plate. Now that's right.

Yes, that's the point. That's what I'm saying. Somebody being rude. I ain't never in my life. I haven't experienced it either but I'm saying for the sake of the hypothetical, for the sake of the hypothetical,

if you go in somebody's house and they don't give you They eating, and you're like, hey, can I have, uh-uh, you should have bought some food, you know. Why didn't even ask? Go ahead. That's what happened to BC. When they went down, BC, you better return a favor. You better get some get back.

But I'm going to tell you, it's going to be tough because the Louisville team that was good last year went into the portal and may have gotten better. They may have gotten better. Is it going to be James Brown payback or is it going to be Rascalatz payback? It may be. anywhere. It may be the weekend, same old song. It may be Louisville running in that trap and taking over that trap the same way that they did when BC came and visited that. I'm just saying, you know. Hello somebody. The last game we have here, week 11, 11, 18, our friends, new friends, cow, your friends, that's your cousin, cow. See, I already know. Candice that person

that'd be like, ain't that a little friend? Ain't that a little friend? That's going to be your little cousin cow is going to be your cousin for the rest of the year just so you know that cousin cow coming to wait for it. And you know what? I have some new followers from the cow bears as well. I was surprised. I'm like, wait, where are they? Oh, yeah, they're there. Listen, Bears fans, y'all are right with me.

I love me some Jared golf. Thank you. Thank you. Y'all are good with me. I love me some Deshaun Jackson. Y'all are right with me, you know. So you said, Kyle is coming to Winston's stable. Mm-hmm.

Okay. It's going to be different for them. I was about saying. It was going to be real different. Probably not used to a little town like Winston's asylum. But, like, Forrest, you know, they get a little pop in the mouth. Who knows what this cow seems going to be? Only you do because you know everything about football.

But I just, I hope, I hope for my own alma mater's sake, they show them what the old, old guard really does around here. This is, you know, we have so many more nerd bows than we used to have. That's fair. So many more nerds. Sanford, Cal. Yeah, yeah, we got so many more. And this is going to be, I think that this is actually going to be a good game,

despite both of these teams being very mid. I think it's going to be a mid-off, but it's going to be a good one. It's going to be a good one that I think we can enjoy and watch and have a good time. But I don't think either one of these teams are very good right now, but I do think that it will be a good time watching play. A mid-off is crazy. Listen, you know. You say some wild things on this show.

So you've, so you've, so you. never seen two two young women or young men arguing on Facebook and Instagram or something like, oh, look what he looked like. Look what she looked like. And you look at both of them. You're like, neither one of y'all is all that wants to look at. I'm going to heaven and getting my blessing. You might be with some gasoline drawl. I ain't, I ain't going to be in there with you. I promise you that. That's what I'm not doing here today. Cal Lake Forest. The Lord knows my heart. Your Lord knows my heart.

The Lord comes out of it. But that's our Thursday and Friday specialty. As mentioned, Wednesday, when it all drops at 5 p.m. On ACC Network, so make sure you guys check that out. We'll have our live reactions to it. Of course, it might be a two-parter because I feel like it's going to be a lot. We've got 17 teams to go over nowadays. So we might make that a deuce parter. And we want to answer your questions on YouTube that you guys have so lovely asked.

We talked about, you talked to ask us what our opinions are for the conference, who needs it more, who the top five, all those things that we're going to spend, make sure that we spend some time going over. So you don't want to miss that. For we leave here, we are sometimes at basketball league. Duke, welcome back to the party. Yeah.

Sometimes everybody needs that Louisville bounce back. Oh, absolutely. Sometimes everybody needs that Louisville bounce back. Louisville is that slump busted. They're that person that you call up. When you're going through that, never mind. We're not going to go there. We're not going to talk about the slumpus years.

But, because see, that one actually is the moment where, like, the gas lead draws will get put off. But I'll say this. You can't lose to Louisville. And Duke did what they needed to do. Okay, they did what they needed. Pit. Pitt beat Georgia Tech 7264.

Florida State is on a roll. That's what I'm saying. I'm nervous about Saturday, North Carolina. They beat Syracuse 85 to 69 at Syracuse. So I'm just saying, got to be ready for them boys. And then Boston College and Virginia Tech are still going as we're recording this show. It's very much a tight 163, 65. So we'll see how that all shakes out.

but any given night here in this league, you just never know what you're going to get. Make sure you guys come back tomorrow. More football talking all the good things for Candace Cooper and Kentie Gibbs. Until next time.