Duke vs. Virginia Showdown: ACC Title Implications

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00:00Biggest game on tap takes place in Durham. It's Virginia and Duke. Duke right now within striking

00:06distance with Georgia Tech to potentially knock down that ACC crown. We talked about the progression

00:13and how consistent Darian Mensah is. Coach, this line six and a half really favors the Blue Devils

00:20based off of last week's performance. I don't know if Tony Elliott and this Virginia offense

00:26could go toe-to-toe with Darian Mensah. Early on, I'm looking to the Blue Devils to win this

00:31ballgame. Yeah, right now, I still think there's a question out there. Two keys to this game.

00:36Is Chandler Morris going to play? He got hit in the head. They took him out of the game.

00:41I think it's critical. I've got Duke all the way if he can't play. If he can play,

00:49and the second question to me then is how do they respond to that loss? All we've heard from Tony

00:53Allen is they've got a special mindset. They know how to win close ballgames. Well, they can look

00:57at last week and say, you know, we were right there, but we lost our quarterback. If they don't

01:01get him back, Duke may run away with this game. But if he's back, I think they go back and win a

01:07close ballgame. Duke, can he be explosive? But Duke gives up explosive plays. I haven't studied

01:13enough yet, but I'm thinking the over in this football game. Yeah, we'll see. 58 and a half is a

01:18very high number. And we talk about how good Darian Mence is. Manny Diaz potentially in one of those

01:24coaches that maybe is looking for a bigger and better job in a bigger conference. We'll see

01:30exactly how it plays out. But if Virginia is able to pick up this victory coach, they jump right back

01:35in to the ACC championship race. They were the only team entering last week that was undefeated in the

01:42conference. Right now, you look at their conference odds. Eight to one. Duke and Georgia Tech seem to be

01:47battling it out right now. If Duke picks up this victory, it potentially could be a rematch with

01:53Georgia Tech, a team that they lost to earlier in the year. That's exactly right. Let me go back and

01:59say this. Without Chandler Morris, I wouldn't take an over in a heartbeat, and I don't feel good.

02:05This is one I'm going to have to wait. That game I need to wait on to see where that quarterback

02:09situation goes. It's so drastic. But Duke, I'm going to tell you the way they are playing,

02:14and the Georgia Tech game becomes critical also that they've got to go, and they could go head

02:20to head down the road. That would be a good one as well.