Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast - CHAOS: ACC Football Standings IMPLODE | Who Will EMERGE as Conference Champion?

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

ACC Football Shakeup: Georgia Tech's Stunning Rise and Miami's Championship HopesThe ACC football landscape is shifting dramatically. Georgia Tech's unexpected 7-0 start, their best since 1966, has the Yellow Jackets leading the pack. Meanwhile, the Miami Hurricanes remain strong contenders despite a recent setback. Host Alex Donno and former NC State defensive lineman Kenton Gibbs break down the conference standings, analyzing each team's path to the ACC Championship. They explore Georgia Tech's powerful rushing attack, Syracuse's offensive struggles, and preview the crucial Pittsburgh vs NC State matchup.The conversation takes an intriguing turn as Donno and Gibbs discuss controversial new college basketball recruiting rules allowing G-League players to join NCAA teams. They examine Tom Izzo's critical reaction and debate the potential impact on player development and college sports culture.Tune in for expert analysis on ACC football's evolving dynamics and a thought-provoking discussion on the future of college athletics. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Kenton Gibbs, and you know, like, listen, I'm the Miami guy, but I'm actually surprised Miami has as good of odds as they still do to win the ACC, despite losing to Louisville. Because from where I'm at, I feel like Miami's got a better chance of getting into the college football playoff than they do getting into the ACC Championship game just based on the standings. But do you venture to guess where the Fan Dual Sportsbook has Miami in terms of ACC championship odds?

I know that they're probably not first because Georgia Tech probably has a good stronghold on first. Yeah. I want to think about second. Who else would be second? I don't think they put Louisville at second. I don't think they put Louisville at second.

Maybe they should, but no, they didn't. I don't. I know they didn't to SMU a second. SMU has looked very unimpressive for a majority of their schedule, but they're picking it up now. Is Miami second? Are they second? Miami is second. Miami is like, okay. Okay.

Yeah. And like, and so I understand like the line of thought just on pure football is that Miami is probably still the best or second best team in the conference just based on absolute football. But if I'm thinking about the ACC standing zone, you're right. Georgia Tech, according to Fanduil, is favored to win the ACC at plus 230 odds. Miami second at plus 260. Virginia, third, at plus 440, and Louisville fourth at plus 500.

So just the reason why, like, I'm a little concerned, like, for ACC championship from a Miami point of view is, obviously Miami's got the one conference loss. Georgia Tech doesn't have one of those. SMU doesn't have one of those. Virginia doesn't technically have one of those. but even Louisville, who does have a conference loss, Kenton, they would have the edge over Miami. If Miami and Louisville both finished the season with one conference loss, Louisville jumps over Miami because of head-to-head. So that's why I'm really surprised Miami's not third or fourth in odds.

And if I look at Louisville's remaining schedule, I guess the odds makers don't think that Louisville is going to win out in the ACC. So Louisville still has Boston College at home should be an easy win. Virginia Tech on the road should be an easy win. Cal at home should be a win. They got Clemson at home, but I think we could stop pretending that Clemson's a tough game this year. I guess, I mean, I guess people still feel like it is.

I don't think it is. They got SMU on the road. The wheels are falling off. Yeah. So Louisville does have SMU on the road, but Miami also has SMU on the road this year. And then Louisville plays Kentucky at home. Doesn't count towards the ACC standings,

whereas like Miami's ACC schedule, not only does Miami have a tie-breaking loss to Louisville, Miami has to play SMU on the road and Pittsburgh on the road, which I would argue is tougher than Louisville's other conference games this year. Yeah, oh, absolutely. Pitt has shown us that when they're playing at their best, they're dangerous. You need to have, you need to come with your best stuff, and you need to come in the Narduzzi disaster class to happen at some point in time and get in the game, which is not unheard of. We know Narduzi, right?

he shows us the best of coaching and the worst of coaching sometimes in these games. But with that being said, I mean, there is a tougher climb for Miami ahead. However, Miami has the talent to do it. You look at Clemson and you say, that's not a good team. They haven't put it all together. The problem with a team like Clemson, the danger that they present is they are so uber talented. If it does click, even if it clicks for three quarters, even if they have one quarter of complete dysfunctioning If it clicks for three, they're probably going to win that game.

That's how good they are talent-wise. Now, again, we can sit here and admit, like you said, Donald, they're not a good team. The compilation, the amalgamation of talent that they have is not working well together. However, we all know with a team like that, all of a sudden, when you write them off and you say, oh, your season's done, they could come out and surprise you with one. So I get the odds makers point there. And the one that surprised me the most, where is Virginia in this line? They're third behind, they're behind Miami at plus 440 odds. So they're kind of a distant third, but they are third.

Okay, all right. So that makes sense. That helps out a little bit because I'm about to say Virginia can't be too deep. Because while Virginia does have, you know, they're Virginia. So we know they have certain deficiencies in certain areas. We know that there's a team that they hope, hey, defense, just hang on. Just hang on enough. Just don't let go on the rope and give our offense a shot.

And they can do that. While that is the situation, you still, you never want to bet on that team. Even though in recent history, we saw Wake Forest get to an ACC championship with that exact same mantra. It was the defense. We're going to the road. Just get me a turnover here and there. You don't got to be great. Just don't let teams put 50 on you and we'll be fine.

So I honestly think this ACC race in the year where we thought it's clearly. to lose and everybody else. And then we thought it's Miami's to lose and everybody else. Now we're realizing this is a spicier ACC race than we've had in quite some time. And I'm going to tell you what, Georgia Tech. Y'all better be glad. I know Georgia Tech fans are saying, we don't get our respect. Nobody's loving on this.

Nobody's giving us. Look at the other two teams that got all the respect and the love in the ACC. Maybe you don't want that love. Maybe you want to stay under the radar with people. doubting you with people saying Haines King can't run the ball like that for a full season. With people saying, oh, their their defense is, you know, bend but don't break. And they've been bending way too much. That's what you want if I'm Georgia Tech, because every team has been crowd has had that

crowd violently snatched off their head this season. Yeah, covering Georgia Tech this year has been so strange because on the one hand, and there could be validity on both sides here, you know, we don't maybe spend as much time here talking about Georgia Tech as we do about Florida State when they lose four games in a row, about Clemson when they're in a funk, about Miami when they're great, and then suddenly they lose a game. Georgia Tech haven't lost a game all year. They've been the most consistent team in the ACC. So Georgia Tech fans accuse us of not talking about them enough. Maybe they're right.

But then on the other hand, maybe we don't devote as much time to them. You and I have been very high on Georgia Tech this year. and I feel like every time we compliment Georgia Tech, we get comments from other college football fans who say, who have they played? Overrated. That team sucks. Irrelevant.

Their schedule soft. So it's like it's weird. Like you get it kind of with both directions for Georgia Tech. But I will say this, no matter what you think of their resume thus far, Brent Key is doing things at Georgia Tech that have not been done since the Vietnam War. he's got that team top 10 in the country number seven in the country top 10 for the first time since 1966 the Beatles were still touring so yeah maybe we don't talk about them enough but when we do

i don't want to get these comments probably from uGA fans or whoever like ah what are you talking about overrated they got a cupcake schedule no matter what you think of their schedule brent key is doing something there that has not been done since long before you or i were born let me explain to you something else that they're doing that it hasn't been a long time since they've done, which is a fairly newer thing. This is something that you and I were both a lot to witness. This team, people keep talking about the passing game. You know, Haynes King, can he really throw the ball? You know, he's only got four passing touchdowns on the season. Hollywood Smugg is the number one rusher in the ACC. You want to venture to guess who number two is? Haines King. Haines King.

Wow. That's great. I never would. If you hadn't led me into that answer, I never would have guessed that. Georgia Tech has three of the top 15 rushers in the ACC. Like we're sitting here and pretending, oh, there's only one way to win football game. Guess what? Everybody in their mama knows Georgia Tech's coming downhill, no frills. Hey, that Haynes kid, that, hey, that King kid, they're coming downhill. They're trying to be physical with it.

Well, Dono, let me ask you this. Have any of the seven teams that have played them so far? Have any of them been able to stop it? I mean, you know, the officials kind of stop them against Wake Forest. The official stopped Wake Forest a little bit. That's fair. That's fair. And I will give you that.

But again, the rest of the year, they have been effective to say the least. This is a team that, again, if they're in any other conference, we saw how Indiana was talked about last year. Some people saying they didn't play anybody. Some people saying, hey, they're legit. Look what Indiana is. Now, Georgia Tech is on a very, very similar trajectory. It's just that they've had certain disadvantages that other teams may not have had to deal with.

So to see where they are, to see that they are on the precipice of greatness with, might I add, four teams left in conference. Of those four teams, here are where those teams rank in terms of ACC standings, in terms of, I believe it is Boston College, NC State, Syracuse, and who's the fourth team on their ACC schedule remaining, Donald? They got Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, Boston College, NC State, Syracuse. Gotcha.

So Pitt is the only team. They have one team left that's only up the top half of the conference going forward. Just one. So you can say what you want about. Oh, they played nobody. They're not going to play anybody. But guess what? A win is a win is a win.

And as much as people love to talk about the SEC and all their hypotheticals, We can't down SEC fans for saying, oh, we beat everybody by 70. We beat everybody by 80. And then also down Georgia Tech for beating the teams that are in front of them. Georgia Tech has played a physical style of football and they've dominated with their physical style of football. So as long as they keep winning, as long as the rambling wreck keeps on rambling, I don't see a problem. By the way, I had the 1960s, right? I totally messed up the stat.

So they are 7 and 0 for the first time since 1966. So that's still something that Brent Key has done. that hasn't been done there since the Vietnam. What was at the Vietnam War even started in 66? I don't believe so, but I'm not a history buff. I can't tell you, I can't tell you. Paul Johnson was the head coach. Last time they had three rushes in the top 15 in ACC.

I know that much. Yeah. I know that much for sure. Yeah, the last time they were in the top 10 before now was 2009, which was in the Paul Johnson era. So, so they're, and Paul Johnson might have been coaching them in 1966. He was running that 66 offense. And the non war was said that started in 55.

So yes, it was rolling when this last time Georgia Tech was this good. Hopefully we don't get any more wars of that scale. Hopefully we're hoping. But in all seriousness, we are seeing a Georgia Tech team with that scale because they're whooping the wheels off everybody in front of them. And again, I don't want to hear strength of schedule. I don't want to hear there was the tweet. that was put out about, oh, nobody wants to see Georgia Tech and USF in the first round game.

The ratings would be terrible. I don't give a damn. I'm sorry. Donald, is it just me? But I don't watch movies. I don't listen to music. I don't watch sports. I don't do any of that with the thought of, hmm, what would the ratings say in mind?

I don't watch anything. I don't listen to anything. I don't enjoy anything with the thought of, hmm, will everybody else agree with me that this is quality? So, you know, it's real loser talk. I remember when I saw the first Avatar movie in theaters, you know, I waited like a month. And by the time I saw it, it was like the highest grossing whatever of all time. And I'm sitting down the theater. I'm like, this is this is dances with wolves with more CGI.

I guess this is like the highest grossing movie ever? Like, what is this crap? No disrespect to James can't. I loved aliens. I loved Terminators one and two. Titanic was a good movie. So James Cameron's awesome. Avatar didn't do anything for me, all right?

So I just want to throw that out there. They're making sequels. I have no interest in the sequels. I do have interest in taking a look at the ACC week nine slate when we come back. You want to keep it locked right here. We're only getting started on this brand new episode of Lockdown ACCC. Folks, Mazda delivers confidence with every ride with more IHS, IHS Top Safety Pick Plus awards than anyone else.

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We're available free wherever you get your podcasts and available free on YouTube. All right, so Georgia Tech, by the way, at a home against Syracuse this Saturday, GT favored by 17 and a half points. You know, it's a big number. I don't know if they cover, but they're definitely going to win because Syracuse, unfortunately, has not been the same team for the past a month now. I think it's been a month since Steve Angelli got injured. And the Orange, unfortunately, they already had defensive issues. They have lost their offensive identity since the Angelli injury. So if Georgia Tech does slip up, this is not going to be the one where they do.

No, I highly doubt that. And when you talk about Georgia Tech slipping up and the liability or the opportunity for this to be the one, Dono, if you had to guess, if you just had to rattle off the amount of points that you think this team is scoring per game since the Angeli injury, what would you say it is? 18 and a half? 11.3. Oh. Since Steve Angelly got hurt, they've scored 34 points in three weeks. Like that's just really where they are.

Offensively, you want to talk about defensively, they have no identity. Here's the thing. They play together. This matters together. When the offense is as inept, as anemic, as, you know, they're in vanish mode permanently. When that happens, your defense can only do but so much. And mind you, this was the. defense that we knew had deficiencies coming into this season. So, you know, as much as everybody

loves Fran Brown and loves to love on Fran Brown, the reality is he's got what he's got. He's got what he's got. The coverage are looking low bearing for him right now. And I think with the way the last year went, everybody will be willing to give him a Mulligan with the way that a Ronde Gaston looks for the charges right now. I mean, you know, most yards since Antonio Gates, Detroit Litt's Antonio that he is. You know, it's a situation where people are now saying like, oh, my God, they did have talent. They did have a bunch of ballplayers at Syracuse, but it's just, it's a really unfortunate moment, man, and looking at where Syracuse is. We knew the schedule was going to be tough, half of last year's playoff on your slate, and then you have to go into it with a quarterback that was so bad.

You had to go get another guy after spring. I mean, and then that guy gets hurt. We knew this was coming. So I wouldn't be surprised if they cover here because, again, Syracuse is in a bad way right now. And I know Georgia Tech hadn't blown anybody out this year outside of G5 or I'm sorry, G6 and FCS things. But this is looking like easy licking here. Yeah. And so another big spread in a game that has, you know, ACC championship implications. I bring up Georgia Tech, of course, because they're in the driver's seat. Virginia, 3 and O in conference ranked number 16.

they go on the road to take on North Carolina. They're favored by 10 and a half points. Now, obviously, UNC has been the circus that they've been all year long. With that said, they were a lot more competitive at Cal last Friday night, you know, a bad red zone turnover. I don't know. Do you feel like is North Carolina getting better to the point where they could maybe challenge Virginia on their best day? Is Gio Lopez still a quarterback?

As far as I know. That's my only question. That's my only question. If the answer to that is yes, so is the answer to the question. Is Virginia going to win the ball game? Those two questions have a very direct and very direct and linear relationship. That one is going to tell you the other. If they play Max Johnson, they've got a shot.

They've got a shot. But Gio Lopez just is not the guy. If you can hear the sound of my voice right now and you are doing Gio's interceptions against his touchdowns, every interception takes away a touchdown. Now, congratulations. You have as many touchdowns as Gio Lopez. He's three to three right now. That's how bad this young man is.

I'm sorry to tell you. I don't, this is not fun. I don't take joy. And, you know, even on the dirty foot club, I don't take fun at pointing out one young man to say, hey, buddy, you're not the answer. But Gio Lopez very clearly is not the answer to the quarterback. And for whatever reason,

I don't know if he's got the original files of how Belichick and George, met or something, but he's got something over that. If he's got the Hulu files, he's got the document. He's got the Hulu files, he's got the HBO file. He got documentary of Lombardi headed over to the

Saudis. He got all. There's no other way I can excuse trotting him out there week after week after week, Dono. I don't understand it. I genuinely don't. So yeah, Cal's going to win this football game.

So another one, and you're the right person to ask about this. You know, Pittsburgh favored by six and a half at home against your NC State Wolfpack. Pitt is obviously another team that has an opportunity. They're three and one in conference. They have a head-to-head with Miami later this year. Is your Wolfpack going to spoil their party? Because ever since they made that quarterback change to Mason Hineshiel, they've been a different football team. You know, Donald, this brings me to the end.

NFL. You know, this is bringing me to NFL. You know why? Because I can't remember which quarterback it was. I believe it was Josh Allen or it might have been some other quarterback, but they said whenever we see a linebacker, whenever we see a white lineback does not a split of foot against one of our best backs that get open in coverage, we have a thing called a milk check. And we know that we're going to target that guy. Now, Cam Ford may be one of the leading tacklers in the ACC. But him against it's Desmond Reed. That's barbecue chicken.

That's oxtails. That's baked mac and cheese. That's greens. That's neck bones. That's hog malt. That's all of that wrapped into one little, nice little plate for you for $5. Like we back in 2005.

I'm sorry to tell you, that is the matchup that Pitt will look to exploit. And that is a matchup that with Sean Brown potentially being down as well, because it's not just Cam Fordham, you know, the lineback of court for NC State in general, without Sean Brown, they don't have guys that are very elite in coverage. With that being said, you want to put them up against this pit backfield, two scatbacks, two guys that can absolutely get shifting in the open field.

Hey, this is going to be a long day for the pack. The pack's best hope at this thing is to light up the scoreboard, but we've seen times where that offense, even with all the talent they've got, they just go missing as well. So, you know, it's really, this is going to be a matchup about coaching more than almost any other that we've seen this year. Because I remember saying when Pitt was up on Florida State, I said, Pitt specializes in cover four. There's no way Florida State scores two touchdowns right away. And then they went with the classic cover four beater, the deep end and big post combo.

And Pitt fell for it. And I sat there and I said to myself, y'all are up with two minutes left. and y'all can't allow two touchdowns and y'all let the oldest trick in the book get you. That's like letting somebody get you with a tap you on one shoulder, even though they don't know the side. That's how old that tricky is to beat cover four. That's inside baseball for you.

But if you know football and you run cover four, you know a team's going to run. Big deep end, big post. That is supposed to break down cover four. That's what it's supposed to do. And lo and behold, they fail for it. So I think this game will be about coaching at a very high degree, but when you get down to the player matchups,

I just think Pitt has too many favorable matchups on offense. I think they take it. By the way, like, when you bring up Des Reed, it reminds me, I really oversimplified Pittsburgh's turnaround because I mentioned the quarterback change from Eli Holstein to Mason Heinchel. But coincidentally, right when they made that quarterback change was also when Des Reed got healthy. Yep.

He might have had a little something to do with that because he tore up Florida State. a couple weeks. So that's for sure. All right. So when we come back, I want to shift gears to basketball. The Louisville Cardinals have made headlines. In case you were not aware, there's a very recent rule change, college basketball teams are now allowed to recruit and sign professionals. You can have someone who's been in the G League for years, and you can commit and go to college. Louisville has done just that. And Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo is like really, really upset

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So, Kenton, I think this is a situation where it's like, if you're upset about Louisville and whoever else is going to do this in, you know, recruiting G League players, to me, this is a don't hate the player, hate the game situation. Because this is now something. The NCAA has changed their rule. If it's perfectly legal to do this, I don't blame Louisville or who, you know, this is going to happen more than just Louisville. I do not blame anyone for your name.

saying, you know what, if we can get somebody with two, three years of NBA G League experience who can help solidify our roster with the experience that comes with being a professional, why not do it if it's within the rules, right? And Louisville has done just that. They've gotten a commitment from London Johnson. He's a point guard who has spent three years in the NBA G-League. He's expected to arrive in Louisville mid-year. He's going to sit out for the rest of the season and be eligible next year. So he has split time in the G-League between the main red clause, which is an affiliate of the Boston Celtics and the Cleveland charge, as you'd imagine, an affiliate of the Cleveland Cavaliers. And before we play Tom Izzo's very angry reaction, I mean,

I mean, Kent, do you agree? I don't know how you could disagree with this, that if you're allowed to do it, do it? If you're allowed to do it, do it. But like you said, don't hate the player, hate the game. And I hate this game. This is the worst. Yeah. I mean, this is worse in that game that always freezes up and gives you the red rings of death on Xbox. This is the worst type of game because why are we allowing players who went professional in a thing and not just professional, professional at the highest level?

The G league is the highest that there is. There should not be anybody able to say, hey, I'm going here and then I'm going back to college. because the G League, you get caught up to the NBA at any moment. And congratulations with one stroke of a pin or with one thought, not at any particular time, as long as it's during the season, you're in the NBA now. I don't think that it should be a situation where guys can go from that to playing against 18-year-olds in no time.

You know what I mean? I just don't. There's something about that that strikes me as a little live. Yeah, man. I don't know if Louisville football is going to look. Maybe if Lamar Jackson has any eligibility. He can come on back. Come on back. You give us another year. But let me play these comments. I want to make sure to credit the source here. W-I-L-X-TV, reporter Chris Solari, asked this question

to Michigan State head coach, of course, a long-time college basketball head coach Tom Izzo. And it's fair to say, we won't play the whole thing, but let me play some of this. It's fair to say he's not too happy with the state of affairs in college. basketball. You know, I'm going to get myself in trouble, but I listen to people talk to how kids changed. Kids aren't the problem. We're the problem. This was sprung on us again yesterday where a guy can be in the G League for two or three years, and then all of a son he's eligible. Most of my people knew nothing about it. I don't think our commissioner, I mean,

I am not real excited about the NCAA or whoever's making these decisions without talking to us, just letting it go because they're afraid they're going to get sued. So you're right. I said that this really bothers your coach if you're Michigan State fans. But if you want a silver lining in the cloud, I am going to call magic tonight. I'm going to call Jared Jackson, Miles, Gary, Max,

You know, this just goes to show you how ridiculous people that are in power make decisions. Well, let me end it right there. So he's going to call Great Michigan State alum Magic Johnson, who may have some more eligibility left Kenton. But he hit on something that is so well stated. The NCAA is going to keep letting rules like these change simply because they know they're going to get sued. they're afraid to get sued and they're afraid because they know they will lose. You're muted.

The big Louisville lobby got to you. See, Dalton Pence comes on for the squad. Now all of a sudden, I'm locked out. Now, I'm going to tell you this, and I mean this very genuinely. I have said this about many things in life, and this is another one where we're seeing it. We are teaching people and teaching our youth. And I mean this for our youth, because the youth, that's where you set the foundation at a house. You can add on window dressing later. You can all change all that later. But when you're

young, that's when the foundation is laid. And right now what we're teaching our young people is a complete and utter lack of stick-to-itiveness. I'm not saying that people should not have freedom of movement. I'm not saying that people shouldn't have the ability to go and do as they please to some extent. But what I am seeing overall is everything, and this could be a larger tangent about a lot of other things outside of sports, but I'm keeping the sports right now. Even if we talk about the transfer portal, at least you're sticking to college sports. If a young man or

a young woman is allowed to and makes the decision to jump to a professional league here in America where you know I'm competing at the highest level, I'm getting the highest level of training there possibly is and all those things. You should have to stick to that.

There should be something holding you to, okay, if you circumvent college, you're circumventing college. Let's make no mistake or bones about that. And this is not like the baseball situation where a guy goes pro on baseball for a few years. It doesn't work out. And then he wants to play football or basketball and he comes back and does that. No, no, no. Because he wasn't receiving the highest level of training for football or for basketball. He was receiving the highest level of training for baseball. And then he comes back and plays every sport. But if I'm looking at this

and I'm saying, you receive the max. Like this is, you know, one pin stroke away, from playing next to Donovan Mitchell. One-pinch stroke away playing next to Louisville Great, Donovan Mitchell, and you're telling me that, oh, man, you should be allowed to come back to college. We have to teach the youth at some point in time. Everything that is not comfortable,

everything that is not easy, everything that is not ideal. I'm not saying that there's virtue and suffering and staying through suffering and pain just for suffering's sake. But at some point in time, when are we going to put our foot down as a society and say,

You've got to eat your vegetables. You've got to live with the decisions. You've got to say, hey, right or wrong, I'm going to make a choice or I'm not going to make a choice. And I'm going to live with the results of whatever the outcome of one of those two options is. Because this feels like an undoing of the decision to circumvent college. If you want to go to the G League at night to circumvent college, go do that. But no, you can't come back. Yes.

This is foolishness, man. This is foolishness. I couldn't agree with you. more, and we'll end on that note. I'm sure we'll talk more about that throughout basketball. See, although this player is not going to play until next year, but I have a feeling this story's going to come up again. You want to keep it right here. Thank you so much for making Lockdown ACC your first listen. Make sure you follow Kenton on Lockdown Wolfpack and at Tjif underscore Kenton on X. Follow me on X at Alex Dono and on Lockedon Caines. And we'll talk to you next time on another

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