ACC Football Power Rankings, Week 10: North Carolina slowly climbing

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – OCTOBER 13: Sheldrick Redwine #22 of the Miami Hurricanes celebrates with the turnover chain in the first half during a game against the Virginia Cavaliers at Scott Stadium on October 13, 2018 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Photo by Ryan M. Kelly/Getty Images) /

Last Week: 12. 14. Scouting Report. 3-5, 0-4. Syracuse Orange. player. 827. Pick Analysis

It’s official, the Orange are the worst team in the ACC this season. The electricity of the Carrier Dome at “The University of Syracuse” has been reduced to a spark.

Here at headquarters where we look at our life-like play-dough versions of Donovan McNabb and Dwight Freeney, we wonder if they have any eligibility left. Listen, we love Dino Babers, but this just isn’t his year. They have no Power Five wins, and no conference victories. They’ve been blown out by every ACC team they’ve played this season except for Pitt, who uses Lightning McQueen logic when it comes to playing football and NC State who haven’t figured out the concept of the forward pass.

They have two legitimate chances to win a conference game this weekend against Boston College, and next weekend against Duke. If it doesn’t happen then, the Orange might be O-fer on the season.

Speaking of ineptitude. The Wolfpack suffer from the same issue as the Orange; they couldn’t replace the talent they lost. We’ve had our sonar and radar on for quarterback Matthew McKay. He’s either at the bottom of the Atlantic with the Titanic or lost with Atlantis. He played a little against Florida State, and hasn’t been heard from since.

We’ve put up posters and even went the milk carton route — nothing.

The old saying is true, if you have three quarterbacks, you don’t have any. The Wolfpack turn to redshirt freshman Devin Leary who is the first redshirt freshman to start for the ‘Pack since Russell Wilson. Somehow we get the feeling that Leary won’t have the fanfare Wilson got when he started.

Pick Analysis. 4-4, 2-3. Boston College Eagles. 11. player. 826. Scouting Report. Last Week: 10

Is Steve Addazio on the hot seat in Chestnut Hill? That’s shocking, hilarious and perplexing to us at headquarters where we stare at our life-sized cut-out of Doug Flutie’s Heisman Trophy. It’s shocking because of the job he’s done at Boston College. You might say, but he’s never won more than seven games. We would agree because, well, if you Google his coaching record that’s what it says, so there’s obviously no argument.

Our counter is what Power Five coach has a worse recruiting base than Boston College? The New England area is known for lots of things: clam chowder, lobster rolls, Paul Revere, Nor’easters and, heck, even Tom Brady. However, it’s never been known for a hotbed of Power Five-caliber football players. So, after Addazio applies the sifter to New England and finds three maybe four ACC-level players, he goes to the Southeast and gets guys that Clemson, Florida State, Miami, and every team in the SEC didn’t offer, coach them up and make a bowl game.

That’s why his hot seat is so hilarious. It’s perplexing because his hot seat is a sign that Boston College fans don’t know who they are — they’re the little guys looking to compete. They won’t be the Seminoles, Tigers or even the Cardinals.

Even at 4-4, they have a shot at a bowl. They have to beat Syracuse this weekend, and find a way to beat Pitt the last game of the season. It ain’t seven, but it’s still a bowl.

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