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RealRussellPumps said:
I'm betting on a big defensive turnaround this year. Offense won't be what it was last year but should (on paper) be good enough to beat up on any other defense on the schedule minus ND. There's not an elite defense on our schedule outside of ND which should bode well for us.

If the defense can be in the top 40 range this year, we could be in for a fun year.
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40th is probably about as realistic as we can hope for.

We finished 92nd in the country last year in scoring defense in conference games. 30.8 PPG allowed to ACC teams.

40th in the country is about 23 a game. I think that's realistic and good enough to be a very good team overall again. It'll just be more balanced.

For example, last year's team was #1 in scoring offense, and #92 in scoring defense. And we all saw the games.

Clemson won the league with the #15 scoring offense and #37 scoring defense.

That's all it really takes. You don't have to have the #1 offense and #1 defense. Nobody ever does. But you have to be somewhat balanced or you see what you saw last year. A historic offense and a ****-poor defense gives you a very good but very flawed team. Take a somewhat small step back on offense, and a decent jump up on defense, and the team should be one of the 2-3 teams competing for the ACC in late November.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
40th is probably about as realistic as we can hope for.

We finished 92nd in the country last year in scoring defense in conference games. 30.8 PPG allowed to ACC teams.

40th in the country is about 23 a game. I think that's realistic and good enough to be a very good team overall again. It'll just be more balanced.

For example, last year's team was #1 in scoring offense, and #92 in scoring defense. And we all saw the games.

Clemson won the league with the #15 scoring offense and #37 scoring defense.

That's all it really takes. You don't have to have the #1 offense and #1 defense. Nobody ever does. But you have to be somewhat balanced or you see what you saw last year. A historic offense and a ****-poor defense gives you a very good but very flawed team. Take a somewhat small step back on offense, and a decent jump up on defense, and the team should be one of the 2-3 teams competing for the ACC in late November.
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That's my thought as well. Despite not being as explosive as last year's offense, if we can be a top 20-30 offense and top 40 defense, it will bode better for the overall success of the team.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
40th is probably about as realistic as we can hope for.

We finished 92nd in the country last year in scoring defense in conference games. 30.8 PPG allowed to ACC teams.

40th in the country is about 23 a game. I think that's realistic and good enough to be a very good team overall again. It'll just be more balanced.

For example, last year's team was #1 in scoring offense, and #92 in scoring defense. And we all saw the games.

Clemson won the league with the #15 scoring offense and #37 scoring defense.

That's all it really takes. You don't have to have the #1 offense and #1 defense. Nobody ever does. But you have to be somewhat balanced or you see what you saw last year. A historic offense and a ****-poor defense gives you a very good but very flawed team. Take a somewhat small step back on offense, and a decent jump up on defense, and the team should be one of the 2-3 teams competing for the ACC in late November.
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Ohio State and Notre Dame were the only teams in the top 10 in scoring offense and defense last year. It’s no coincidence they played for the championship. You need to not only have supreme talent, you need to get a little lucky with your schedule.
 
ThomasM said:
If we're being honest, if we didn't have Cam Ward last year, we might have won 4 games. After watching Beck play, I don't see him as the QB that can get us to 10 wins. However, if our D takes a massive leap forward, he won't have to.

I just don't see our D going from patsy to nasty in one year. But if they do, we have a shot at the ACC. That is a really, really big if.
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RE: the D....normally I would totally agree with this but now days with the transfer portal + new DC, I think units can take a huge leap forward from year to year

Previous year performance is less of an indicator for future performance in this day and age due to roster changes (see FSU 23 to 24, even MIA from 23 to 24, IU from 23 to 24, ECT ECT)
 
Honestly we need to tone down the Non con schedule. No reason in this day and age to play both ND and Florida in the same year. Play one but not both
 
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Empirical Cane said:
Here's my way to early drunk and blind monkey throwing darts speculation of how Miami's season unfolds.

I had expected Miami to shake the catastrophic atmospherics that have plaqued this program for 20+ years, but that just hasn't been the case in the Cristoball era. Until proven otherwise, by him or another head corch, that trend will continue.

Brace for disappointment.

I'm not saying below will happen, but it is well within a reasonable prediction.

8-5, no ACCCG, no CFPO appearance

Remember, with a single loss in ACC play, our Canes chances to appear in ACCCG drop to almost nil. As in 0%.

• Week 1: Sun, 31 Aug – Notre Dame – Hard Rock Stadium - L
• Week 2: Sat, 6 Sep – Bethune-Cookman – Hard Rock Stadium - W
• Week 3: Sat, 13 Sep – USF – Hard Rock Stadium - W
• Week 4: Sat, 20 Sep – Florida – Hard Rock Stadium - W
• Week 5: Open Date
• Week 6: Sat, 4 Oct – at Florida State* – Doak Campbell Stadium - W
• Week 7: Open Date
• Week 8: Fri, 17 Oct – Louisville* – Hard Rock Stadium - L
• Week 9: Sat, 25 Oct – Stanford* – Hard Rock Stadium - W
• Week 10: Sat, 1 Nov – at SMU* – Gerald J. Ford Stadium - W (nail biter)
• Week 11: Sat, 8 Nov – Syracuse* – Hard Rock Stadium - L
• Week 12: Sat, 15 Nov – NC State* – Hard Rock Stadium - W
• Week 13: Sat, 22 Nov – at Virginia Tech* – Lane Stadium - L
• Week 14: Sat, 29 Nov – at Pittsburgh* – Acrisure Stadium - W

And then another L in the Who-Gives-A-**** Bowl.
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isn't that what a prediction is?
 
I think game by game predictions are too hard to do this early. I like viewing the season in 5 sections:

Tough Non-Conf (UF, ND): 1-1
Easy Non-Conf (Bethune, USF): 2-0
"Good" ACC (@SMU, @FSU): 1-1
Decent ACC (@VT, Louis, @Pitt): 2-1
Bad ACC (Stanford, NCST, Cuse): 3-0

9-3, miss ACC championship. Obviously lose bowl game, 9-4. Dec/Jan portal champions, rinse repeat.
 
DrewZ2 said:
Honestly we need to tone down the Non con schedule. No reason in this day and age to play both ND and Florida in the same year. Play one but not both
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I’d rather us drop the FCS teams on our schedule. We’re talking about possibly moving to the Big10 or SEC and you’re worried about playing both ND and UF in the same year with an ACC schedule?
 
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Pretty talented team on paper. I am confident Dawson will score some points? Can Heatherman turn this D around without any LBs, and will specials continue to he **** poor, especially with new kickers? Upside, this is a playoff team. Downside about what the original post said.
 
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