Instead of Texting Pick ‘Em: Week 3

It’s a reasonably big week in the Atlantic Coast Conference, as we have the first interconference matchup of ranked teams. Georgia Tech travels to Coral Gables tonight to face Miami in a matchup of Coastal Division medium-heavies. The winner takes over the division lead, at least until Virginia Tech starts playing conference games.

Elsewhere in the ACC is a marquee basketball matchup between Duke and Kansas. Unfortunately, the Blue Devils and Jayhawks will be playing football. Virginia Tech welcomes Nebraska in another matchup of ranked teams. And East Carolina, the early leader in the North Carolina state championship race, plays at UNC

In the two-team Instead of Texting picks league, I’ve taken a commanding one-game lead on cellar-dweller Jeremy Ashton. We’ll see if I can put him away this week.

	Jimmy’s Picks (16-4)	Jeremy’s Picks (15-5)
Georgia Tech at Miami	Miami	Georgia Tech
Duke at Kansas	Kansas	Kansas
East Carolina at North Carolina	East Carolina	East Carolina
Boston College at Clemson	Clemson	Clemson
Nebraska at Virginia Tech	Virginia Tech	Virginia Tech
Middle Tennessee at Maryland	Maryland	Maryland
Virginia at Southern Mississippi	Southern Miss	Southern Miss
Gardner-Webb at N.C. State	N.C. State	N.C. State
Elon at Wake Forest	Wake	Wake
Florida State at Brigham Young	BYU	BYU

Instead of Texting Pick’em: Week 2

Unlike the ACC against nonconference opponents, we each cracked .500 with our first week of picks. Like most of the teams in the conference, though, we’ve still got plenty of room for improvement.

Jimmy has an early one-game lead thanks to his correct call on the big Alabama-Virginia Tech matchup. I’m hoping to catch up by relying on a simple principle: always pick against Duke.

Here are our Week 2 picks:

	Jimmy’s Picks (7-3)	Jeremy’s Picks (6-4)
Clemson at Georgia Tech	Georgia Tech	Georgia Tech
Duke at Army	Duke	Army
North Carolina at Connecticut	North Carolina	North Carolina
Stanford at Wake Forest	Stanford	Wake Forest
Marshall at Virginia Tech	Virginia Tech	Virginia Tech
Kent State at Boston College	Boston College	Boston College
TCU at Virginia	TCU	TCU
Jacksonville State at Florida State	Florida State	Florida State
Murray State at N.C. State	N.C. State	N.C. State

Instead of Texting Pick’em: Week 1

We couldn’t write a blog about ACC football without having a little friendly competition.

Each week, Jimmy and I will pick the winner for every game on the schedule. We’ll keep track of the results throughout the season to find out who’s the better college football prognosticator.

We missed the South Carolina-N.C. State game in our first round of picks because we got off to a bit of a late start. Sadly, neither one of us missed watching the actual game.

Without further ado, here are our picks for the week:

	Jimmy’s Picks	Jeremy’s Picks
Jacksonville State at Georgia Tech	Georgia Tech	Georgia Tech
Northeastern at Boston College	Boston College	Boston College
Baylor at Wake Forest	Baylor	Wake Forest
Middle Tennessee at Clemson	Clemson	Clemson
The Citadel at North Carolina	North Carolina	North Carolina
William & Mary at Virginia	Virginia	Virginia
Richmond at Duke	Duke	Richmond
Virginia Tech vs. Alabama	Alabama	Virginia Tech
Maryland at California	California	California
Miami at Florida State	Florida State	Florida State