The Ohio State University

For the past 19 months -- ever since Florida's national-title game rout of Ohio State -- it's been the Mailbag topic that would not die. Rarely a day goes by that someone from some part of the country doesn't fire...

All summer long, I've been getting several thousand variations of the following question, and all summer long, I've been dodging it. Explanation to follow ...

Forget Danny Sheridan, Nostradamus or the Weather Channel. No set of prognosticators have been more consistently accurate over the years than the sportswriters that cover ACC football.

Your guide to the weekend, SIOC style.

A year ago this time, no one would have predicted a Thanksgiving weekend game between Missouri and Kansas would wind up one of the most highly viewed of the season. Or that USC's game against Stanford would carry...