Canes played an all time great game against Georgia Tech Saturday. Holy fuck that was good. Teams are mediocre, but if it's good football it's good football.
Canes are 3-1, only loss coming to a really good Kansas State team. I think they could win the ACC Coastal division this year based purely on the fact that the ACC as a whole, especially the Coastal, really sucks. Even Virginia Tech is down this year. Also, a lot of young talent on this Canes team, so I believe they steal one from either Notre Dame or FSU. Could have a good record and generate hype heading into next year, which should be the breakout year for my Canes assuming Golden is a good coach.
As much as I hate FSU I'm glad to see that they are back (although they will drop some games they shouldn't this year, in classic Jimbo fashion). The ACC really needs Miami and FSU atop the conference in order to bring it the respect it deserves. We've been killed as a conference every year because VT and some other 1st and a half rate team like Clemson or North Carolina under Butch has been playing first raters from other conferences, and it trickles down to the second and third raters, and before you know it they are 1-7 in bowl games, the conference has a reputation for sucking, and teams that go 11-1 have no shot at a title game.
If Miami and FSU get back to title contention and rule at the top of the conference, then Virginia Tech plays Arkansas instead of LSU, Clemson plays Michigan or Wisconsin instead of Ohio State, and all of a sudden the conference looks like the decent power it was supposed to be when it formed and Miami and Virginia Tech joined.