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We're going to welcome in David Hale of ESPN, covers college football, focuses in on the ACC.

And I'm interested just for tonight, David,

with these initial college football playoff rankings coming out,

very different weekend or week with the ACC this week

than maybe if this were last week with what happened with Georgia Tech and Miami over the weekend.

But how are you expecting the ACC to fare in tonight's initial

rankings?

Not good.

I wouldn't think, you know, there's the wins and losses on the field are one thing.

The eye test is certainly another.

I mean, you look at a team like Virginia who won loss and should be, I would think,

normally, comfortably within that top 12 range, they haven't really played like a team you

would consider to be top 12. I mean, they had a pick six that gave some cushion to this last

game, but it's weekend and week out. It comes down to the final

possession or overtime. Georgia Tech, I think, certainly would have been in there until you

lose to NC State, but it wasn't just that they lost. I mean, they lost pretty handily. They

really didn't have answers to NC State. And then Miami, it's not just two losses. I mean,

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