There were a few good notes this week compiled by the ACC's sports information directions worth sharing. Check 'em out. You'll feel smarter for it:
OFFICIALS MAKE GREAT CALL
OFFICIALS MAKE GREAT CALL
- The ACC Football Officials Association only has about 75 members, but the group came together to raise $3,000 for cancer research in support of BC linebacker Mark Herzlich, who was diagnized with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a form of bone cancer, in May. The check was presented to Herzlich prior to the Boston College-North Carolina football game last weekend and the official who made the presentation was Mike Owens, a head linesman from Clinton, S.C., who is also a cancer survivor. More than $135,000 has been raised for cancer research from the ACC community in Herzlich’s name.
- Boston College senior place-kicker Steve Aponavicius is the only kicker in college football’s FBS to be perfect in both field goals and extra points this year. Aponavicius is 9-for-9 in fi eld goals this season and 36-for-36 in extra points. Aponavicius has hit 15 straight field goals and 81 straight extra points. Marshall’s Craig Ratanamorn was perfect until last weekend, when he missed a field goal.
- Clemson running back C.J. Spiller needs just 26 all-purpose yards to become the fifth player in NCAA history to reach 7,000 for his career. He will attempt to go over that number against a team he has had success against in his career. Spiller has 498 all-purpose running yards against South Carolina in three games, including 331 in 42 rushes, a 7.9 average.
- Florida State once again leads the ACC in penalties, but in Saturday’s 29-26 victory over Maryland, the Seminoles pulled off something they haven’t accomplished since Bobby Bowden’s first season in Tallahassee. FSU played a penalty-free game against the Terrapins. The last time that happened was Sept. 18, 1976 against Miami when the ‘Noles were neither penalized nor – as was the case against Maryland – have any accepted penalties in a game.
- Georgia Tech juniors Jonathan Dwyer, who has 1,203 rushing yards, and Josh Nesbitt, who has rushed for 847 yards this year, have a chance at becoming the first duo from one ACC team to each rush for 1,000 yards in one season since 1993 when North Carolina’s Curtis Johnson (1,093 yards) and Leon Johnson (1,012) accomplished it. Nesbitt, who has led Tech to a conference-record 41 rushing touchdowns this year, also is tied for the lead in the ACC in scoring, averaging 8.7 points per game. Nesbitt could become the first quarterback in 30 years to lead the conference scoring since NC State’s Scott Smith tied for the title in 1979.
- Last week at Virginia Tech, the Wolfpack’s defensive front pressured Tyrod Taylor 20 times, according to the coaches’ film grades. Two weeks ago against Maryland, 24 of NC State’s 25 credited pressures came from the defensive line. In seven games against ACC teams this season, the entire defense has been credited with 91 quarterback pressures or hurries. Eighty-three of those have been from defensive linemen. Alan Michael-Cash and Willie Young lead the way with 14 each.That large number of pressures hasn't always turned into sacks, though. The defensive line tallied six sacks in the conference opener against Wake Forest, but has made only five in the six games since.
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Heather Dinich
Dinich covered ACC and Big Ten football for five seasons before joining ESPN.com in November 2007. She's an Indiana grad but somehow her favorite day of the week is Saturday.
ACC SCOREBOARD
Saturday, 12/17
Final Temple 37 Wyoming 15 Final Ohio 24 Utah State 23 Final San Diego State 30 Louisiana-Lafayette 32
Tuesday, 12/20
Wednesday, 12/21
Final 18 TCU 31 Louisiana Tech 24
Thursday, 12/22
Saturday, 12/24
Final Nevada 17 21 Southern Miss 24
Monday, 12/26
Tuesday, 12/27
Final Western Michigan 32 Purdue 37 Final Louisville 24 North Carolina State 31
Wednesday, 12/28
Final Toledo 42 Air Force 41 Final California 10 24 Texas 21
Thursday, 12/29
Final Florida State 18 Notre Dame 14 Final Washington 56 12 Baylor 67
Friday, 12/30
Final Brigham Young 24 Tulsa 21 Final Rutgers 27 Iowa State 13 Final Mississippi State 23 Wake Forest 17 Final Iowa 14 14 Oklahoma 31
Saturday, 12/31
Final Texas A&M 33 Northwestern 22 Final/OT Georgia Tech 27 Utah 30 Final Illinois 20 UCLA 14 Final Cincinnati 31 Vanderbilt 24 Final Virginia 24 25 Auburn 43
Monday, 1/2
Final 19 Houston 30 22 Penn State 14 Final Ohio State 17 Florida 24 Final/3OT 17 Michigan State 33 16 Georgia 30 Final 20 Nebraska 13 9 South Carolina 30 Final 10 Wisconsin 38 5 Oregon 45 Final/OT 4 Stanford 38 3 Oklahoma State 41
Tuesday, 1/3
Final/OT 13 Michigan 23 11 Virginia Tech 20
Wednesday, 1/4
Final 23 West Virginia 70 15 Clemson 33
Friday, 1/6
Final 8 Kansas State 16 6 Arkansas 29
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