ACC Coaching Boards - Week 3

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1 Bobby Bowden
Florida State W
Nice blowout bottom-score-line win by the Bowden/Fischer combo over Western Carolina. Are the Seminoles going to be able to compete in the lowly ACC this season?


2 Frank Beamer
Virgina Tech W
Perhaps I was too hard on Beamer last week. I still think they should have beaten East Carolina, but the Pirates win over West Virginia makes ECU legit. Beamer stays at number two for now, but he'll have a chance to take back over the top spot pretty quickly. VT needs to use that great defense to destroy the GaTech option this weekend.

3 Jim Grobe
Wake Forest W
I give Houston Nutt a lot of credit, so I can't fault Wake for having to pull out the game in the last seconds. The Deamon Deacons give off that champion resolve; never seeming to get too down on themselves. Grobe has taken the team to the ACC mountain top, and, through the play of QB Riley Skinner, has them playing with confidence. The more that Wake looks like a ACC contender, the more it validates his No. 3 spot on this list. And I really want to nudge him higher.

4 Paul Johnson
Georgia Tech W
It wasn't pretty, but Paul Johnson offenses rarely are. Tech went into Boston College and came out with a huge win. The Jackets may actually be a formidable team in the ACC this season. Now I don't think they'll come away with a win over the Hokies, but a good showing will make Johnson's No. 4 spot secure on this list.

5 Butch Davis
North Carolina DNP
So apparently I miss read the UNC-Rutgers game; it's Thursday night. I still say the same thing, but with Davis being the mentor, I'm going to say that a win by the Tar Heels nets him nada, while a win by Rutgers will move him up to No. 2.

6 Tom O’Brien
North Carolina St W
NC State is laughable. O'Brien is going to stay above Jag just for the fact that Jagodzinski's success came off of O'Brien's teams. Unfortunately, I guess that means that I can't drop him too far. This show how crappy the ACC coaching group is. Put the lower 8 in a bag, and draw. No difference.

7 Jeff Jagodzinski
Boston College L
I was holding off on sending Jag up higher in the rankings until after this past weekend. I think that a more experienced coach probably comes away with a win over the Yellow Jackets (read: Tom O'Brien), so I feel justified in keeping Jag here for now. I have a feeling he is going to be a good coach for the Eagles, and he shouldn't be kept down here for too long. However, until there are more results on the field, he is still a relative unknown, and is not deserving of a top spot, even in the ACC.

8 Ralph Friedgen
Maryland L
Middle Tennessee State?!?! First off, does Maryland still do Crabcakes? Because they sure as hell don't do football. You in the world agrees to go to Murfreesboro, TN? What, was the Charles E. Bailey Sr. Sportplex taken? Maryland is a joke... I wonder if Middle Tennessee had a speaker system loud enough to play, "We Must Protect This House."

9 Al Groh
Virginia W
Hooray! Al Groh won a game... Oh, wait, it was against DI-AA Richmond? And they only won by 16? Well, I guess it's one more week before Cutcliff rises above Groh. Did this team seriously win 9 games last year. God the ACC sucks.

10 David Cutcliffe
Duke L
Duke stinks and yet, I still respect Cutcliff enough to put him at No. 10.

11 Randy Shannon
Miami L
Randy Shannon's team played well, but it's just so amazing to see how far the Hurricanes have fallen. This was the type of game that Miami lived for, and now they get beaten like a drum. The defense played well, but they couldn't get anything going against the Gators. This is still a joke to have Shannon this low though, but like Jagodzinski, until something happens on the field to show that he deserves the bump, he'll stay at the bottom of the ACC. oh, and Randy Shannon hates the man.

12 Tommy Bowden
Clemson W
Tommy's team discovered that they have two all-star running backs. Tommy's team put up 45 points against Citadel. Tommy's team is still a major favorite for the ACC title. If the Tigers don't win it, then I swear to God this had better not be Tommy's team in 2009.