ACC Better than MostThe ACC has been beaten down like a red headed step child this year, and the pundits...ooops...experts are all talking about how poor they are because there is no dominant team, and the highest ranked team in the league is North Carolina!  That's right, I'm not talking basketball here, I'm talking Football, and UNC is the highest rated team in the ACC right now.  My contention all year has been that the ACC is not a bad conference, and that from top to bottom they could compete with the majority of conferences out there.  Sure, their top teams can't compete with a couple of the other conferences top teams, but I find it hard to believe that the middle to bottom half of the league is worst than most...especially with Duke now winning games.  Here is what I found, and why tonight's matchup is so critical for Miami and Va. Tech.

Going 3-5 in his last 8 picks, LA calls on some special mojoIf the house wasn’t cleeeeeean before, it is following that reaming I received from Ball State last night. WR Louis Johnson (yes, you read between the lines correctly...L{ewis takes a} Johnson), who had just nine catches all season, caught six passes for 165 yards and a TD in route to a 45-14 blasting of the ninth best scoring defense in the nation.  So, today is the day I need to pull out the “Pick Like a Champion Today” sign and press on.  And with a couple of field goal spreads tonight, I need to step it up and bring my “A game.”