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Athlon Awards: Defensive Back Units

ACC They're the teams within the team - those cohesive little units bound together by their shared responsibilities within the larger team context. Whether it's the offensive linemen firing off tim...

Athlon Awards: Linebacker Units

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Dont'a Hightower, Keenan Robinson, Luke Kuechly, Travis Lewis, Vontaze Burfict, Alabama, Arizona State, Boston College, Florida, Missouri, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, oklahoma, TCU, Texas, Athlon Awards

Athlon Awards: Best Defensive Line Units

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, ACC, Big Ten, Mountain West, SEC, Baker Steinkuhler, Billy Winn, Brandon Jenkins, Devin Taylor, Jadeveon Clowney, Jared Crick, Shea McClellin, Arkansas, Boise State, Florida, Florida State, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio State, South Carolina, Texas, Athlon Awards

Top 25 Players of the BCS Era

ACC Athlon's editors have voted on the top 25 players of the BCS era. ...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, ACC, Big East, Big Ten, big-12, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Adrian Peterson, Cam Newton, LaDainian Tomlinson, Michael Vick, Sam Bradford, Tim Tebow, Vince Young, Arizona State, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Miami, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, oklahoma, Ole Miss, Pitt, TCU, Tennessee, Texas, Texas Tech, USC, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Wisconsin

Athlon Awards: Wide Receiver Units

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Pac-12, SEC, Greg Childs, Jeff Fuller, Justin Blackmon, Michael Floyd, Ryan Broyles, Arizona, Arkansas, baylor, Florida State, Missouri, Notre Dame, oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, Washington, Athlon Awards

Predicting College Football's Breakout Players: ACC

ACC by Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter) What is a breakout player? Defining that term isn’t exactly easy. Although ACC fans are likely already familiar with the names on this list, this i...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami, NC State, North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest

Athlon Awards: Running Back Units

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC, Christine Michael, LaMichael James, Marcus Lattimore, Montee Ball, Trent Richardson, Alabama, Arkansas, Boston College, Michigan State, Ohio State, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas A&M, Washington, Wisconsin, Athlon Awards

North Carolina vs. Ohio State: The Violations Scorecard

ACC Two programs, one with a middling college football tradition and one comfortably nested among college football's elite, currently face the heavy hammer of the NCAA's compliance police. Both have re...

1 year ago by Scott Henry Tags: College Football, ACC, Big Ten, Marvin Austin, Terrelle Pryor, North Carolina, Ohio State, Butch Davis, Jim Tressel, NCAA Violations

Athlon Awards: Quarterback Units

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC, Arizona, baylor, Boise State, Cincinnati, Georgia, Hawaii, Houston, Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, Northwestern, Notre Dame, oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Stanford, Tulsa, USC, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Athlon Awards

2011 ACC Championship: Florida State or The Field?

ACC Debate: Who would you pick to win the ACC Championship: Florida State Seminoles or The Field? Patrick Snow (@AthlonSnowman): I’ll take Florida State over the field in the ACC, and you can sp...

1 year ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, ACC, Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami, NC State, North Carolina, Virginia Tech, FSU

Who Will Coach North Carolina in 2012?

ACC By Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter) and Mitch Light (@AthlonMitch) It's really no surprise North Carolina decided to end Butch Davis' tenure. However, the timing of his firing was odd. ...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, North Carolina, Butch Davis fired, coaching search, UNC Coach

Looking Back at the Top Recruits of 2006: 30-21

ACC by Braden Gall (@AthlonBraden on Twitter) Every year, millions of dollars and man hours are spent trying to acquire talent by college football programs across this great country. Attempt...

1 year ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC

College Football's Coaches on the Hot Seat

ACC The coaching carousel is usually one of the most intriguing elements of college football's regular season and has been in full effect since May with the departure of Jim Tressel at Ohio State and B...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC, Coaches on the hot seat, Mark Richt

College Football: Projecting the 2011 Win Totals

ACC by Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter) The countdown to kickoff for the 2011 college football season is less than 40 days away. With fall camps opening up in a matter of days, now is anoth...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC

Ranking the College Football Conferences

ACC With the start of the 2011 just around the corner, it's time to revisit the conference power rankings. The SEC claims the last five national titles and should reign surpreme once again this year. H...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC

Ranking the ACC's Top 25 Players for 2011

ACC By Braden Gall (@AthlonBraden) and Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven) Athlon Sports continues its countdown to the upcoming season with a look at the top 25 players for 2011 in the ACC. Several ...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami, NC State, North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest

A Golden Era at the U

ACC by Jorge Milian Fans of the Miami Hurricanes are a notoriously difficult bunch to please. But they’re pushovers compared to Toni Golden, the mother of new Canes coach Al Golden. After wor...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Miami Hurricanes, Al Golden

Ranking the College Football Coaching Jobs: 120-51

ACC We have ranked every college football program in the country, based on the attractiveness of the position from a coaching perspective. We considered many factors — tradition, facilities...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC, Coaching jobs

Ranking the College Football Coaching Jobs: ACC

ACC We have ranked every college football program in the country, based on the attractiveness of the position from a coaching perspective. We considered many factors — tradition, facilities, location...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami, NC State, North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, Coaching jobs

Georgia Tech Cheerleaders

ACC Georgia Tech Cheerleaders from the Athlon Archive! ...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, ACC, Georgia Tech

Why Does Clemson Continue to Underachieve?

ACC There’s no shortage of excuses as to why Clemson remains on the periphery of the nation’s power elite. Some would argue that its home state doesn’t produce an abundance of top prospects (alth...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Clemson Tigers

Athlon's 2011 All-ACC Team

ACC Athlon continues our countdown to the upcoming season with our first and second All-ACC teams for the 2011 season. Click here for all our college football team previews, rankings and predictions. ...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC

Athlon's 2011 ACC Predictions

ACC After reaching the ACC Championship Game in Jimbo Fisher’s first season as head coach, there’s no reason to believe Florida State won’t be there again in 2011. The Seminoles return 17 starter...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC

Watch out for Cal, Miami and Cincinnati in '11-12

ACC Name a team from a Big Six power conference that you believe could surprise in 2011-12. Mitch Light: I believe California will emerge as the biggest threat to Arizona in the new-look Pac-12. Mi...

1 year ago by Mitch Light Tags: College Basketball, ACC, Big East, Pac-12, Allen Crabbe, Cashmere Wright, DeQuan Jones, Dion Dixon, Jim Larranaga, Jorege Gutierrez, Malcolm Grant, Mick Cronin, Mike Montgomery, Reggie Johnson, Sean Kilpatrick, Shaquille Thomas, Yancy Gates, Cal, Cincinnati, Miami

Haith a Curious Hire by Missouri

ACC What was the most questionable hire of the offseason? Patrick Snow: I thought this offseason’s most curious hire was Frank Haith at Missouri. Athletic director Mike Alden was very ambitious i...

1 year ago by Mitch Light Tags: College Basketball, A-10, ACC, Big 12, Brian Gregory, Frank Haith, Paul Hewitt, Dayton, George Mason, Georgia Tech, Miami, Missouri

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