Carolina Has A shot

Twelve  wins in a row.  Right now there is probably no team in college football playing any better Than the Tar Heels. The biggest dig any body can put up against the Tar Heels is there is not a win against a top 25 team.   It is not their fault one team backed out of a scheduled game forcing the Heels to play two division 2 teams.  Their biggest flub was opening night against South Carolina and at the time everyone thought that was not that bad of a loss until the Gamecocks decided to be one of the worse teams in the SEC.

Carolina has done all this with Chapel Hill still under a cloud which brought scholarship reduction and coach Larry Fedora has done what ever the company spill has been without complaint.  There is no doubt that every year Fedora  has been at Carolina they have been able to put points on the board.  Some games they just could not score enough.

I  spoke about three weeks ago that Clemson would now go on cruise control after they captured their division.  Their offense has not as they have kept right on scoring.  The defense is the one on cruise control and the question has to be asked.  Can the defense pick up the pace? They remind me of the long distance runner who hangs back until it's the right time to motor pass those he was following.   Can the Tiger defense pick it up  and slow Carolina down any?

I think this is the first sellout of the ACC Championship game.  It is a perfect combination of teams two of the closes teams to Charlotte.  I suspect there will be more orange there due to the fact Clemson knew they were playing there two weeks before Carolina did.

If you are John Swofford a Carolina Grad an ACC Commissioner who are you pulling for.  Clemson wins and they make the final four and the playoffs.  Carolina wins and the ACC loses all the money earned if your conference plays in the playoffs and wins the championship.  There is just not enough dominoes left that can fall the Tar Heel way to get them in.

I think this game comes down to the best defense that takes the field.  Here is a fact they may shock you.  There is only one team in the RPI top 20 that has a strength of schedules  in the top 40.  Alabama is 7th while no other team in SOS is in the top 40 in strength of schedule.  Clemson is 70th while Carolina is 90th.  The loser probably scores at least 35.  Somewhere Clemson will get the Carolina quarterback to fumble and that will be the difference.  Clemson 45 Carolina 38