Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast - REAL OR FAKE?: Virginia Cavaliers & Beau Pribula Top 25 HYPE, Pitt’s Offense EXPLODES in Week 1

Starting point is 00:00:00 What's real and what's fake after week one in the ACC? We'll tell you right here on Locked on ACC. You are Locked on ACC, your daily podcast on the Atlantic Coast Conference. Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome into another edition of the Lockdown ACC podcast. I'm Juliet Council, and he is former NC State Football Letterman Kenton Gibbs. And today's episode, Lockdown ACC is brought to you by Fandulg. $350 in bonus bets guaranteed when you bet $5 every day for seven days.

Starting point is 00:00:42 Join all the action at fandul.com. And thanks for joining us on today's episode of Locked-on ACC. We'll tell you what we're looking out for in week two of ACC. Football also tell you what we're stock up on, what we're stocked down on after watching week zero and week one in the ACC. But let's start off by playing a game of what's real and what's fake after seeing every team play at least one game to this point in the ACC football season. Let's start off Kenton with the Virginia Cavaliers, who after their beatdown of,

Starting point is 00:01:16 unfortunately, your Wolfpack, they're now ranked 25th in the AP poll. Are you thinking that's real or is it fake that Virginia is a top 25 team after the game they played a couple of Saturdays to go there in Charlottesville against NC State? This is so interesting because I'm not sure if I'm ready to call them. them real yet. But what I will say is their physicality is real. That will translate. That will carry game after game after game after game.

Starting point is 00:01:45 If you had to tell me that the Martians got to being pointed at earth, real or fate, I would say I want Andre Eagle. Now, I'm just joking. Give me real because I think that that running game and that defense, I think that's enough to carry them to heights that Virginia football is, with all due respect, not accustomed to being at. So if I had to say real in terms of, do I think they win eight games or so this year?

Starting point is 00:02:11 Absolutely. Absolutely. Go ahead. I was just saying if the bar for real is eight games or so, absolutely they're real. If you're saying the bar for real is they got to get back to the ACC championship game? Hold on. Hold your horses.

Starting point is 00:02:26 Because that passing game, Beaufort Buehler's ability to throw the ball, there were times where he hung some up. And thank God for NC State DBs not being able to cover grass because, you know, guys were waiting on the ball for a little bit and against a better defensive back. That thing may be taking the other way. But their ability to run the ball and swarm on defense, I don't care what conference you're in. I don't care who you're playing. That is real and that can carry you.

Starting point is 00:02:54 Yeah, as far as real, I'm buying that they are right now a top 25 team in college football. this is probably one of the more overlooked teams heading into the season. I understand it's only been one year of Tony Elliott having that kind of success, 11 wins after only having, what, 11 wins in his first three seasons at Virginia, which is crazy that happened. But Bo Perbulo is better for a fit like this offense running the ball behind that experience offensive line. Like what I saw from the playmakers,

Starting point is 00:03:22 want to see more out of the passing game, which they'll have Rico Flores back soon, so that will help them certainly moving forward. but defensively, they were flying around. So I do think it's real right now that Virginia is a top 25 team after only one week of football. Pitt, their offense, 646 total yards against Miami, Ohio put up 59 points. Mason Hintel's seven touchdowns to seven different receivers. Is the pit offense real? I said this when he was hired, and I'm going to say it again, especially if you're just talking about that offense.

Starting point is 00:03:56 Brother, that chain, the diamond tester, will be screened. You understand? They are real. K. Bell is a rising star in the coaching ranks. I am telling you right now, within the next three to five years, Kay Bell is going to be a head coach at a Power Force school within the next three to five years. I have no doubt in my mind. Him and Mason Hineshoe together, it is cinema. It is magic.

Starting point is 00:04:22 They make it absolutely happen. I'm going to say they are the real deal, Holyfield. If there is a way for Pitt to become an offensive team overnight, they may have just done it. They may have just done it with the acquisition of Bell and with keeping Heinshow. I think that this is very possibly like a duo that was unheralded coming in. But by the end of this season, everybody's going to know their name.

Starting point is 00:04:47 And I'd be surprised if Kay Bell wasn't on the broil's watch list. Yeah, there's some interesting parallels to this being gear three for Cade Bell and Pitt's offense. And you go back to when Pitt won the ACC, with Kenny Pickett. Now was Kenny Pickett's third year in Mark Whipple's system, but Mark Whipple being there for a third year and you saw how everything was on fire. Obviously, only Mason Hintel's second year in college football, second year in this system. But we saw after one week, Miami, Ohio is going to be a team I think can win the Mac with the NIL

Starting point is 00:05:13 budget that they have there in Oxford, Ohio. So yeah, I think it's real. And it was good to see the wide receivers. That's a new rebuilt group that they have there. They look good. Mason Hintchel, man, he looks really good as well. SMU had some turnover issues on Monday night. Four turnovers, two of them from Kevin Jennings. One, that really was on the receiver, according to their head coach, Rent Lashley. Is it real that SMU has turnover issues moving forward this season after what we saw on

Starting point is 00:05:42 Monday night in Tallahassee? This is faker than a $3 bill, you understand? This here is fake. It's game one. They're playing against a team that already played a football game. And I will say some of this is working out the rest. Some of this is working out the rest. this is not.

Starting point is 00:05:58 If these were things, and I'll tell you this, if it was a situation where Kevin Jennings was playing hero ball and got a turnover, that's kind of a Kevin Jennings thing. It's part of Kevin Jennings' experience. Cool.

Starting point is 00:06:11 The turnover by and large that we saw, I mean, one of them was a pass where it was like Kevin Jennings, he just knows I could fit it in that window. But for the most part, the rest of them, I believe that they're going to play guys who know the right back. Like I'm pretty sure.

Starting point is 00:06:27 I say this all the time about football, alignment and assignment. If you get those two things down, you will beat a lot of teams. SMU showed that with that turnover where it was just like, hey, this guy didn't know the assignment. So I do think that, you know, SMU and Kevin Jennings still growing. He's still learning. You're still getting better. But turnover problem, I wouldn't agree with that. Yeah, and you look at Kevin Jennings.

Starting point is 00:06:53 I think he kind of is who he is at this point in time, had a career high. and passing yardage with 430 on Monday night in that one against FSU. But he has 28 interceptions in 36 career games over the last couple of years. So this is going to be an issue moving forward for him. He's going to have the kind of quintessential Kevin Jennings Yolo ball that we saw late in that second half. But the first one wasn't really on him. Receiver Ryan wrong round. The muff punt just don't receive that.

Starting point is 00:07:20 And then the fumble like that happens. I agree it's not real. I think it's more faked than anything. but I think Kevin Jennings having maybe one or two of those a game is something that you won't be that surprised if it does happen. But as far as SMU as a team having a turnover problem, no, their quarterback kind of based off of the sample size that we've seen over the last three plus years. And then the last one for you, I think I know where you're going here. Is it real or is it fake that Clemson has a quarterback problem after what happened on Saturday night in Baton Rouge? Remember, the offensive line was awful, didn't really give Tate Reynolds or Christopher Visita.

Starting point is 00:07:55 chance. Is this real or fake that Davo has a problem with this quarterback room? Am I, did I hear you correctly? Did I hear you ask me if they got a quarterback problem? I've been screaming this from the top of my lungs from the start of spring ball. That's why I said my boy chapel follower is right, because I've been screaming since spring ball. They need a guy. They've got a jag at that quarterback position. You know what a jag is, Julian? just the guy. Just the guy. And honestly, he might be worse than a jag.

Starting point is 00:08:32 I'm going to be honest. Vezina might be worse than the jag. He might be a guy that you have to win in spite of. So yes, Clemson has a problem. Tate Reynolds look like a freshman. They have a problem at quarterback because they don't have the infrastructure around the quarterback right now.

Starting point is 00:08:48 You remember those old Bama teams with A.J. McCarran and all those guys, they were so loaded with talent. The quarterback's job, Don't screw this up. Clemson does not have that type of talent where your job is just don't screw it up and we'll win the football game. They are no longer there and their quarterbacks are at best just a guy. So yeah, there's a pretty big quarterback problem. And I do appreciate the banal point. It's crazy though, the say, which I'm going to say, that was a completely different era of college football. That was an era where you could stack talent. And when they had to Sean, they had Trevor and Taj Boyd, you could stack talent.

Starting point is 00:09:25 and we saw how all three of those guys played, in particular the final two, being first round picks, one of them going number one overall and having a ton of success to Sean had, not so much recently. I'm saying it's fake right now. They were outgunned against LSU.

Starting point is 00:09:39 I don't think they're going to be outgunned on Saturday against Georgia Southern. I don't know. Maybe they will be outgunning against North Carolina next Saturday. We'll have to wait and see, but right now I'm just going to, I'm going to wait.

Starting point is 00:09:50 Can I ask you this question? Can I ask you this question? That's what you said is fake. Go ahead. head. Did you hear anything in spring ball that indicated they were solid at the quarterback position? Yeah, in a way, in a way I did that they felt good about the freshmen. So if anything bad happened to Vizina, who I saw be capable last year against SMU, I still have questions, certainly.

Starting point is 00:10:14 But my main concern about Clemson was never the quarterback position. If they have a problem offensively, the offensive line. Julian missed this calling. He should have been a lawyer. He should have been a lawyer because he's avoiding the question. Your honor, your honor, I'm not concerned. Let's get back to the real deal here. Have you heard anything that let me be very direct with this question? I'm going to ask for permission to treat the witness as hostile.

Starting point is 00:10:39 Now, if we are talking about the majority of what you have heard about the quarterback position at Clemson football during spring camp or spring ball and fall camp, did you hear anything to the contrary of what you saw this Saturday in a meaningful way? Not one or two days where it was like, oh, this quarterback had a good day. Was the overarching theme different than what you saw? Because what I heard was the quarterbacks had a turnover problem. Say Reynolds looked like a freshman at times. And Vizina is Vizina. That's what I heard.

Starting point is 00:11:15 But maybe you got different sources. You're closer. I mean, from what I read, that is not what played out on Saturday. That was far worse. And even what I've read since then, shout out to Larry Williams and the folks ever at Tiger Illustrated part of the On Three Network. What I've even read since then is how shocked that they were about what happened.

Starting point is 00:11:36 Dably would say, Vizina was pressing. He was pressing. Tate Reynolds, freshmen, look like a freshman. I'm saying it's fake for now. And we'll wait and see how it plays out moving forward.

Starting point is 00:11:46 If they have issues on Saturday, then yeah, it may very well be real for the Clemson quarterback, and for Dabo. And speaking of our guy, Chapel Fowler, I saw his dad, Scott Fowler, who's a columnist for the show Observer earlier today inside the Panthers facility,

Starting point is 00:11:59 told him, hey, I'm glad you weren't going to be a gotcha guy today, Scott. So shout out to Chapel. And she was pops over what's going on down there at Clemson. So we told you what's real, told you what's fake. Where are we out as far as stock up, stock down after one-slash-two weeks in the ACC? We'll tell you that here in just a moment on lockdown ACC. running a business shouldn't feel like you're trying to connect a bunch of systems that were never designed to work together. One app for accounting, another for inventory, another for sales.

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Starting point is 00:13:41 What are you stock up on right now heading into week two? Well, clearly I'm not stock up on my camera after it cut out on me like that, but I'll tell you who I am stock up on. Mr. Lamar Keenhoots. Come on down. Come on down, Lincoln. Stock up. Hey, hey, I can admit when I'm wrong. And this felt like going back in time and watching Bitcoin pop off all over again.

Starting point is 00:14:07 Where it was like, oh, why not just put it a couple hundred dollars? But you were like, that's stupid. Get virtual money that's not attached to anything. That's stupid. That's how I feel right now looking at Lincoln King holds. And it is just one week. It is just one week. I could be vindicated later and like, oh, he may be average.

Starting point is 00:14:24 But I'm going to tell you, he made plays. He was a dude. When you watch the overarching theme of that game, it was not, well, you know, Louisville, everybody around him was just making all these plays and he just had to be good or nothing. No, no, no. He did things in that football game where you're like, brother, that's, I got A, every tongue must buy, I mean, every knee most by, every tongue must confess that that's a, that's a

Starting point is 00:14:48 dude right there. On Saturday, he was a dude. Can he continue that for the rest of the year? Remains to be seen. But I wish I would have bought a little of that stock a little early. I could admit that. I could admit that. Well, I don't think you were ever like thinking he wasn't going to be great, but you were a little skeptical if he as you hadn't seen him really play, which is fair. I was excited. Like, this was my most intriguing quarterback situation going into the ACC. And man, was great in ear to ear like a chess year count on Sunday night watching them play. That boy, he looked good, man. 307 yards passing the most by a Louisville quarterback in their debut.

Starting point is 00:15:26 And he struggled in that first half. Had a wide open Trey Richardson. That would have been a walk-in touchdown. He had to make that play. Didn't make it. Made it later on in that game. Louie McCoy made some play. So there are going to be opportunities this season where he doesn't really like to do much.

Starting point is 00:15:41 He doesn't have to be a playmaker. Just get the ball out on time. Do your job. He did more than this job on Saturday night. And you could see he was feeling himself late. And he's an athlete, too, man. That's a big dude. I did not realize he was that big.

Starting point is 00:15:52 So he's going to be a problem for a lot of teams in the ACC. He cannot wait until next Saturday. SMU, Louisville. That's going to be one of the bigger games of the slate. So, yeah, I'm also very stock up on Lincoln Keynes. I don't think anybody's surprised by that based off of how excited it was to see him play. What else you stock up on when looking at week one and weeks here in the ACC? I hate to say it.

Starting point is 00:16:16 It feels ridiculous to say it, but I got to say it. And I know that's, y'all see Julius smiling already. Despite all the off-this-field chaos, despite all the madness and the temporary leaves and the resignations, you got to be stock up on UNC football. You got to be stock up. I'm doing my part. I'm trying to get into, I'm trying to go upstairs when I'm going here, okay? I'm doing the Lord's worth talking good about these folks. But you got to be stock up because I thought that that team was going to be comically bad.

Starting point is 00:16:48 Very seriously. I thought that that team was going to be comically bad. You can say what you want. You can say what you want about, oh, TCU is just really terrible and it's their fault. But ultimately, TCU is still a powerful team. They won the football game. That is a football game against the team to beat them by 30 plus last year. That is a 10 plus after calling off the dogs in like the third quarter.

Starting point is 00:17:10 They had dudes who had no business playing in the ball game in that second half and they still dominated. And so to see that this this UNC team did enough, you can say what you want about them. I've got to be stock up on a team that I thought would be laughable. That's undefeated right now. Yes, I know undefeated I want to know. Still undefeated. Soon to be two and no when they play East Tennessee State on Saturday. Shout to my boy, Will Healy.

Starting point is 00:17:36 Sorry, you're going to have to take that L on Saturday in Sykenin Stadium. They're also, you got to be stock up because of the only team of the ACC with a P4 win as of this moment after week zero and week one. Virginia was carrying the conference. Virginia got a P4 week. Sorry, P4 Don Conkrie.

Starting point is 00:17:51 P4 don't, y'all. Y'all know what I'm trying to say. I get you. I saw it in the comments the other day when I went solo. Stop it. You know what I'm trying to say, guys. But yeah, look, North Carolina, I think really stock up on the facts at Mike Lombardi is gone. Bill Belichick has a chance. Now, there's a lot of things that they're investigating.

Starting point is 00:18:09 have me concerned. And if things go sideways, Carolina might save a lot of money if those things are true. But Bill Belichick, nowadays he's gotten rid of his buddy who should have never been hired, may have a chance to actually have success in Chapel Hill. Now, I guess you give Lombardi a little bit of credit for getting guys like Jolani Thurman to come to Chapel Hill, maybe Billy Edwards, Jr. I'm not going to do that. I'm also stock up on Miami. This is Miami offense that we saw two years ago when Cam Ward was there, when it had those receivers. Malachi, Tony, wide ass open all night long. Cooper Barcate still doing it. Yeah, they didn't run the ball that well. I'm not concerned. They'll figure it out with that new offensive line. I am stock way up on

Starting point is 00:18:47 Miami's offense after seeing them against Stanford and also stock up on Davis Warren. He's actually acquitted himself quite well these first two weeks. So shout out to him. Stock down. What do you stock down on? Two things give it to me right now. The old guard of ACC coaches. I am stock the hell down on all of you. All of you are getting Two thumbs down, actually. I wish I had two more hands, so I can give you four thumbs down. I don't know what's going on with these. I got you.

Starting point is 00:19:16 There we go. Four thumbs down from Locked on ACC for the old guard of ACC coaches. Dabot out here arguing with reporters. Dave Dorn and all of his staff talking about we didn't know that this quarterback who could run the ball would run the ball. Who could have predicted that? Who could have known that? There is something going on with the old guard of ACC coaches that. that everybody is seeming very disappointing.

Starting point is 00:19:42 The only one who did not disappoint is Narduzi. And again, everybody else that I saw, the long-tenured guys, the guys that have been around for a while, I'm just scratching my head. So wait, what did we do during the summer, everybody? What did we do? Because you even take it chapel follower aside, because both of us love chapel very much,

Starting point is 00:20:03 51 damn points, 50. You gave up a 50 piece. a 50 piece nugget with extra sauce on the side. And that's, you're telling me that you're, that's what you're thinking. Oh, you're the gotcha guy. How about you get you a damn stop? How about that gotcha? You know?

Starting point is 00:20:20 But again, this ain't just about devil. This ain't just about Doran. All of the old guard right now, y'all have got to prove something because like Julian said, who has P4 wins that are out of conference right now? Who? Who? Because it ain't the old folks. It ain't the folks that have been around.

Starting point is 00:20:34 Carolina, it's our heels. Well, it is an old guard, as in a lot of. old guy in Bill Belichick, but yeah, it's not the old guard of the ACC. He's one year, he's two year tenured in the ACC. He don't count just the old guard. You know what I mean? You got to be about five years plus to get into that old guard. And all of them, right now, they out there

Starting point is 00:20:49 stinking. Yeah, well, hey, Patner-Doozy, the do's holding it down. But yeah, man, look, Dave Doran is what it is. Davo, same playbook. Every time things back against the wall, you talk about, got you. I need to get you some guys, Davo,

Starting point is 00:21:05 because that's the problem. Stock down for me, I'll just give you quickly. Like Duke quarterback situation, Walker Egan. I was not happy about that. Duke fans were booing when Dan Mahan came in and came off the field for he got to go back in there. That's not great. Cal's defense. There's a lot of guys who were four stars who came over with Tossopoi.

Starting point is 00:21:25 Y'all got pushed around the second half. Don't love that. But the one I'm mainly stocked down is Georgia Tech. Yeah. Colorado pushed you around, man. And I'll be honest, guys. I'm very biased when it comes to Georgia Tech. The best man in my wedding went to Georgia Tech.

Starting point is 00:21:41 He is a third generation yellow jacket. Therefore, I've been a yellow jacket my whole life rooting for them. The only other ACC team I want to see succeed. So sometimes my, not some, a lot of times, my judgment is clouded when looking at Georgia Tech. Now, when they suck, I would tell you they suck. But I was buying Brent Key. I'm watching the ACC network that got that behind the scene show that they did for a lot of schools.

Starting point is 00:22:02 And Brent's looking out at historic Bobby Dodd Field and Sand, historic Bobadat Stadium, no, five a Dodd Stadium, historic Grand Field, that's no Hyundai Field, whatever. But he's looking out saying, we're back. And I'm like, yeah, we're back, Brent, I got you. And you let Dion Sanders, Colorado push you around? That's not great.

Starting point is 00:22:22 Not good at all. Now they could bounce back against Tennessee. But what I saw on Thursday, does not give me much confidence that's going to happen. So I'm unfortunately stocked down on my B team in the ACC, the Georgia Tech Yellowjack. it together, guys. That was embarrassing. All right, we told you what you're stock up, stocked down on.

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Starting point is 00:24:31 Indeed.com slash podcast terms and conditions apply. need to hire, but this is a job for indeed sponsored jobs. All right, closing things out here on this Wednesday edition of Locked-on, ACCC, heading into week two, not week three, which I have written down to my notes in the ACC. We're going to tell you what we're looking out for, of course, over the next couple of days, we'll preview what's going to go on in week two. Big matchup you're looking at other matchups throughout the ACC,

Starting point is 00:24:57 key storylines, all of that. But as far as looking ahead to the weekend, Thursday night, Miami's going to play FamU, which is going to be a hate crime. And then we're going to see either games on Friday than throughout the weekend on Saturday. What are you watching out for in week two in the ACC campaign? You know, there's a ton to look out for here at the ACC,

Starting point is 00:25:18 but I want to know more than anything else for all of the teams who came out of the gates absolutely sputtering and you're playing nobody's. Can you get back on track early? Can you get back on track? Is this going to be a situation where you're in a dog fight with nobodies until the fourth quarter where it's clear you just have more scholarship players than them? Or do you show something better? Do you produce in a better way?

Starting point is 00:25:45 Do you show up more meaningfully and dominate from the jump and show that you're pissed off at the world looking at you, Dave Doran? Do you show that we were embarrassed and got pushed around last night looking at you, Georgia Tech? what do you show to all of these teams who out of the gates just look stink, stank, stump? Because everybody ain't playing somebody great right now. So if you're not playing somebody great, you need to show it. And I know Georgia Tech's next game is against Tennessee, but you get the point. I mean, you get the point. Do you show something different?

Starting point is 00:26:21 I'm not saying that you've got to dominate Tennessee up front. You've got to be better than what you were against Colorado. Colorado won the line of scrimmage on both sides of the board. ball in a very meaningful way. So again, all of the teams who sputtered out the gates, how do you come back? Who do you bounce back as? How do you show up? And even teams who won, Billy Edwards and company, what do you show up as in week two?

Starting point is 00:26:44 Do you show up as a team that can matriculate the ball down the field against East Tennessee? Or do we sit here and still get stuck with the question? Maybe TCU is that bad. Who knows? I hope Will Haley doesn't have any. thing for the heels on Saturday, honestly. But looking at it for me, I want to see how the ACC bounces back in non-conference power forward matchups.

Starting point is 00:27:09 There we go. I got it right. Finally, you look at Friday night, Rutgers losing the UMass. And look at me, I told you last week, let's hold off. Let's not make fun of the Big Ten in Rutgers. Let's wait to see if Boston College can get it done. The BC I saw last Saturday, I feel like should be able to beat Rutgers at home. Now, Dylan Lonergan is actually.

Starting point is 00:27:29 Hurt won't be making a return trip to Boston College, which is probably a good thing for him because those dudes did not like that guy at all. But I want to see that matchup. How does B.C. play. Mason McKinsey, I thought was fine that first week. Then there's other games. Wake going to Purdue. UCF going to Pitt.

Starting point is 00:27:44 You also have Duke at Illinois. And as you mentioned, Tennessee at Georgia Tech. The ACC only has one team right now with a non-conference people when that's North Carolina. I expect a lot more out of pit this season. I expect that in North Carolina. of pick got up to a good start against Bible, Ohio, but you need to hold serve at home against UCF. Like, that's not a top tier kind of big 12 team win that game.

Starting point is 00:28:06 Wake, Purdue was awful last year. You were actually a quality team, and we already seen what Gio Lopez looks in that offense back at South Al and this past Thursday night. That should be a game while your favorite. You're favorite by, right? I'm not going to say because it's a different sports, but you're favorite right now. We're looking at other sports, but you guys should win that game. So I feel like this should be a week where the ACC bounces.

Starting point is 00:28:28 back after a rough week one because week zero things went well because the only non-conference P4 game is Carolina TCU and Ireland. But last weekend, yeah, it did not look good for the ACC. So perception really matters, narratives. They get created right now. And as long as you're going to be able to play enough of these non-conference before games, you need to find a way to win those, especially against teams that are kind of your peers across conferences where the Big 12, the Big 10, whatever it may be, go get the job done.

Starting point is 00:28:54 So focus on that this coming weekend in the ACC. But that's going to wrap up this edition of the Lockdown ACC podcast for a lockdown podcast network. We're your host, as always, Julian Council and Kenton Gibbs. Again, y'all subscribe and follow the show for free over on YouTube and wherever you listen to your favorite podcast. And be sure to follow us over on the socials at Julian Council and at TGIF underscore Kenton. And in the meantime, be safe, be happy, be whole. And we'll talk to you on Thursday as we'll focus on the three biggest matchups in the ACC this coming weekend. All that coming up here on Thursday on lockdown.

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