Miami is the ACC's clear favorite - can anyone stop the 'Canes?
Josh Pate calls out a viewer who says the Hurricanes are not the overwhelmingly favorite to win the conference -- and says the only real threat is injury to quarterback Darian Mensah. Subscribe to "Josh Pate's College Football Show" on YouTube .
Video Transcript
This one came from Spencer.
He said, "One of the bad predictions out there is that Miami is by far the best team in the ACC, and everyone else is playing for second."
Now, Spencer, I gotta tell you, Miami's the best team by far in the ACC, and everyone's playing for second.
That's my opinion.
So I am one of the many here, and you, you seem like one of the very few, but I do know maybe where you're going with that.
Although you did me the favor of just typing one sentence, which I appreciate.
If you typed two or three more sentences, you probably would have said things like, "We're still waiting on Miami to win the ACC.
They still haven't ever won the conference title game.
They were an overwhelming favorite last year, and they didn't get it done," although, Clemson was in the mix last year.
Yeah, all that having been said, I still think they're an overwhelming favorite to do this this year.
So my question rhetorically, 'cause you're not here to defend yourself, would be if not them, then whomst?
Now, there is a, a scenario here where Darian Mensah has something happen to him.
If he were hurt, if he were unavailable, there is a massive drop-off, I mean a massive drop-off between QB one and QB two at Miami.
So if that were to happen, and I don't know that anyone has a model to predict injury, if that were to happen, then everything's off the table.
But if Darian Mensah's healthy, if this team is largely, you know, as is on paper, and you're telling me they're just flat out not it, and it's SMU or it's Louisville or it's Clemson or it's someone else, that's a model that I wanna buy stake in, stock in rather, 'cause I can't see it.
