Scrambled Eggs With Salsa – Week Ten Of ACC Nation Pigskin Picks

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It’s not just the Coastal this year. Toss in the Atlantic Division of the ACC as well. College football on the home front has always been a bit like scrambled eggs. You always knew what you were going to get even though it could get messy along the way. This year there’s a healthy side of salsa mixed in to spice things up.

Over in the Atlantic where we’ve had good old dependable free-range chicken Clemson serving up tasty eggs for years we now find Wake Forest has taken over the grill. There’s a whole new spin on their version of the Atlantic scrambled egg. So far so good with 5 conference wins and no losses. They’ve got four more challenging games to go to make sure none of those eggs ends up on their face. This is where the salsa gets served and it’s spicy. The Deacs face the Tar Heels, Wolfpack, Tigers and Eagles to wrap up the regular season. This is without a doubt a challenge to Dave Clawson’s cooking skills….err coaching skills.

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Meanwhile the guys over in the Coastal have been throwing eggs at each other with one or two actually making it to the grill. The eggs that have been served so far have been smothered in salsa. No medium heat for these folks. Even though Pitt is at the top of the standings we find Virginia, North Carolina, Miami and Virginia Tech all in the scramble. The Panthers face off with North Carolina, Virginia and Syracuse after this week’s presumed cruise over Duke. There’s been a ‘hold my beer’ approach to how the front runners of this division have botched their weekly serving of eggs. The back end of their schedules is all about cracking the eggs without leaving any of the shell as a surprise.

Scrambled Eggs

The ACC Nation crew making this season’s picks includes –

  • Will Ojanen 55-27
  • Xayveon 49-33
  • Jim Bresnahan 59-23
  • Chris Bond 57-25
  • Dave Wolpert 51-31
  • Mike Lewis 50-32
  • Jim Quist 53-29
GAMES/SPREADWILLXAYVEONJIM BCHRISDAVEMIKEJIM Q
VT VS BC -3VTBCBCBCBCVTVT
WF VS UNC -2 1/2WFWFWFWFWFWFWF
NC ST VS FSU -2 1/2NC STNC STFSUNC STNC STNC STNC ST
CLEM VS LOU -4CLEMCLEMLOUCLEMCLEMCLEMCLEM
PITT VS DUK -21PITTPITTPITTPITTPITTPITTPITT
GT VS MIA -10 1/2GTGTMIAGTMIAMIAMIA
NAVY VS ND -21NDNDNDNDNAVYNDND
Latest odds provided through VegasInsider.com.

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Let’s look for outliers among this week’s pigskin picks. The first is from the leader Jim Bresnahan who is going with Florida State in an upset over NC State. Jim has pointed to the inconsistencies in play among teams in the ACC as an on-going problem. In this case he also points to the Noles as a team on the up-swing.

Our next outlier is also from Jim and he’s not sold on Clemson pulling off the win on the road.

The last comes from Dave Wolpert who picks Navy in an upset win over Notre Dame. Make note that Dave has always been solid on picking the Irish in the past so is his ‘gut’ telling him something?

The crew is split when it comes to Virginia Tech at Boston College and Georgia Tech at Miami. Despite oddsmakers going with the Tar Heels they’re fully on-board with Wake Forest.

Scrambled Eggs