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GREG VACEK'S WEB ROUNDUPSaturday, September 2, 2023

September 2, 2023 By Greg Vacek Leave a Comment

East Carolina Opens 2023 Season At No. 2 Michigan… AAC will not expand ‘westward’ in wake of SMU departure, commissioner says … Pirate XC Women 4th, Men 3rd at Elon Opener… Pirates Post Emphatic VB Sweep Of Bethune-Cookman… Pirates Travel to High Point Soccer Sunday… Holton Ahlers: Cut loose again

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Pregame Podcast

Game Day Weather

ecupirates.com

  • East Carolina Opens 2023 Season At No. 2 Michigan
  • Pirate XC Women 4th, Men 3rd at Elon Opener
  • Pirates Post Emphatic VB Sweep Of Bethune-Cookman
  • Pirates Travel to High Point Soccer Sunday

The East Carolinian

WNCT 9

  • East Carolina opens 2023 season Saturday at No. 2 Michigan
  • No. 2 Michigan opens season against East Carolina without suspended coach Jim Harbaugh
  • Students, fans excited for ECU season opener at Michigan
  • Pirates score early and late to beat UNCW

WITN 7

  • ECU vs Michigan Preview
  • Local Greenville businesses prepare for big crowds ahead of ECU Football’s first official game of the season
  • ENC At 3: Charlie & Natalie taste test ECU’s new official craft beer

247 Sports

  • ECU at Michigan: Final Game Day Predictions
  • ECU at Michigan: Five Wolverines to watch
  • How to watch, listen and stream: ECU at No. 2 Michigan
  • ECU Countdown to Kickoff: No. 1 Jaylen Johnson
  • Pirate offense hoping the unknown can be an advantage in opener
  • Behind Enemy Lines: Michigan vs. East Carolina Pirates

Seahawks Suddenly Cutting QB Ahlers Sparks Concern Over Depth Heavy

CBS Sports

  • Holton Ahlers: Cut loose again
  • Michigan vs. East Carolina odds, spread, time: 2023 college football picks, Week 1 predictions by proven model

Michigan vs East Carolina Experts Picks, Predictions, Week 1 College Football News

Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

  • ECU roundup: Soccer, volleyball earn wins; women’s basketball tickets on sale
  • GAMEDAY: ECU football opens season with tough test at No. 2 Michigan
  • GAMEDAY: Numbers game
  • GAMEDAY: Three players to watch

The Detroit News

  • Scouting report: Michigan football vs. East Carolina
  • Interim coach Minter: Harbaugh’s confidence, belief will help Michigan in opener

USA Today

  • What is Peacock? How to watch Michigan, Michigan State 2023 games on NBC streaming site
  • What channel is Michigan vs. East Carolina on today? Time, TV schedule for Wolverines opener

East Carolina vs. Michigan prediction, odds, pick, how to watch College Football Week 1 game Clutch Points

Make Your Pick: Michigan vs. East Carolina Sports Illustrated

MLive

  • Wolverine Confidential: Will a Wolverine be a Heisman finalist? ECU preview
  • Michigan vs. East Carolina score predictions from MLive’s beat writers

Michigan football vs. East Carolina game predictions: How big of a blowout? USA Today

Michigan football vs. East Carolina: Prediction, point spread, odds, best bet Wolverines Wire

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

  • Statement From Commissioner Mike Aresco
  • Game Preview: East Carolina Opens at No. 2 Michigan
  • Game Preview: SMU Hosts Louisiana Tech in 2023 Opener
  • SMU, Wichita State Earn Impressive VB Wins

Colorado vs. TCU, Texas vs. Rice, more we’re watching in Week 1 FOX Sports

AAC will not expand ‘westward’ in wake of SMU departure, commissioner says YAHOO!

Dallas Morning News

  • SMU joins ACC with Stanford, Cal, ending Mustangs’ long wait for power conference bid
  • SMU officials call ACC a ‘top three’ conference, taking jab at Big 12
  • 5 things to know about the ACC, new home of SMU, Stanford, Cal
  • What SMU’s departure to ACC means for series with North Texas

Newsday

  • SMU celebrates entrance into ACC. It’s quite the contrast from the death penalty days 
  • Analysis: Conference realignment has mangled the college sports map, but to what benefit?

CBS Sports

  • SMU joins the ACC: How the Mustangs rose from the death penalty to an improbable return to a major conference
  • Conference realignment winners, losers: Stanford, Cal face travel headaches, SMU gets long-awaited promotion

Tampa Bay Times

  • Is Florida Gators’ Billy Napier another Willie Taggart? Let’s explore
  • Who is USF football coach Alex Golesh?

Memphis Commercial Appeal

  •  What SMU departure, potential AAC expansion means for Memphis
  •  Hardaway says Rose wants to rekindle relationship with Memphis Tigers

Tulsa 42, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 7: Compete coverage of the Hurricane’s win Tulsa World

NOLA.com

  • Keys to victory: what are four things Tulane needs to do win its opener against South Alabama
  • Prediction: what will the outcome be in Tulane-South Alabama game

Drayton: ‘Temple deserves to be in bowl games’ 247 Sports

‘Just doing my job’: UAB’s Jacob Zeno sets program record in win over North Carolina A&T AL.com

San Antonio Express News

  • What UTSA fans traveling to Houston need to know for game day
  • UTSA vs. Houston: 5 things to watch in season opener

Houston Chronicle

  • No. 11 Texas vs. Rice: 5 things to watch in season opener
  • 5 things to watch in UH’s football opener
  • ACC clears way to add SMU, Stanford, California

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

USA Today

  • ACC adding Stanford, Cal, SMU feels like a new low in college sports
  • Jimmy Buffett, ‘Margaritaville’ musician and mogul, dies at 76 

YAHOO!

  • North Carolina State changed its vote on Stanford, Cal, SMU joining the ACC
  • ACC Adds Stanford, Cal, SMU and Antitrust Risk

Raleigh News & Observer

  • ACC approves westward expansion, adding Stanford, Cal and SMU to become 18-team league
  • NC State’s apparent vote reversal cleared way for three new schools to join expanded ACC
  • They destroyed the ACC, in order to save it
  • College football is back in NC. Enjoy this version of the sport, while it lasts

Stanford and Cal join ACC: Third newcomer SMU could be key to reducing travel demands on West Coast schools Orlando Sentinel

SMU joins the ACC: How the Mustangs rose from the death penalty to an improbable return to a major conference CBS Sports

Another Athletic Conference Just Got Bigger. Much More Than Sports Is at Stake. The Chronicle of Higher Education

There’s no point in NCAA sports having conferences anymore Washington Examiner

WRAL

  • No. 21 UNC opens with South Carolina, seeks to build on 9-win season with Heisman hopeful Drake Maye
  • PREVIEW: No. 21 UNC battles South Carolina in the Duke’s Mayo Classic
  • UNC’s Tez Walker won’t play in opener vs. South Carolina
  • Mt. Olive teams up with star UNC linebacker to sell pickle juice
  • Carolina tussle: No. 21 Tar Heels meet the Gamecocks to top the ACC’s Week 1 slate
  • NC State, seen as swing vote on ACC expansion, welcomes new members
  • Coach K on realignment: ‘Afraid of what’s going on with the conferences’

Winston Salem Journal

  • Luke DeCock: They destroyed the ACC, in order to save it
  • Chip Scoggins: One more A to Z college football preview before chaos descends
  • J. Brady McCollough: Stanford and Cal’s ACC move all about a blind devotion to money, not ‘student-athletes’
  • David Wharton: Pac-12, the ‘Conference of Champions,’ dies at 108
  • With no NCAA decision on Tez Walker, UNC coach Mack Brown expresses disappointment
  • Column: As Georgia goes for a three-peat, those who’ve done it before provide perspective

Charleston Post & Courier

  • Citadel’s Maurice Drayton era begins against former SoCon rival Georgia Southern
  • Gamecocks’ 4 keys for success against No. 21 North Carolina
  • ESPN, ABC other Disney channels go dark on Spectrum as college football cranks up

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

  • Virginia Tech quarterback Grant Wells is game-planning for another matchup against ODU
  • College football preview: Norfolk State looking to jump-start offense and improve on disappointing 2022 season

Roanoke Times

  • Broadcasting UVa’s first football game since shooting tragedy both a challenge and opportunity
  • Keys to victory: Old Dominion at Virginia Tech
  • How to watch Virginia Tech football vs. Old Dominion
  • Liberty enters Chadwell Era with fresh goals, and a few milestones are within reach

Atlanta Journal Constitution

  • Second-half collapse costs Georgia Tech in loss to Louisville
  • In season opener, Brent Key’s team shows ‘flashes’ but ultimately not enough
  • Newness abounds as Georgia Bulldogs open 2023 season

The Associated Press

  • ACC becomes latest super conference, expanding cross-country by adding Stanford, Cal and SMU
  • Analysis: Conference realignment has mangled the college sports map, but to what benefit?
  • Daniels guides Stanford to 37-24 win over Hawaii in opener
  • Plummer rallies Louisville over Georgia Tech 39-34 in ACC opener
  • Kansas overcomes early struggles, overwhelms Missouri State late in 48-17 win
  • Jackson, El-Zayat score on kickoffs, Eastern Michigan tops Howard 33-23

 

Nuggets and Briefs:  National and Professional articles of interest

The Associated Press

  • Novak Djokovic comes back after dropping the first 2 sets to beat Laslo Djere at the US Open
  • Coco Gauff comes back to win at the US Open and set up a match against Caroline Wozniacki
  • No. 4 Elena Rybakina falls to Sorana Cirstea to become the highest-seeded woman out at the US Open
  • US Open defending champs and No. 1 seeds Krejcikova and Siniakova knocked out in women’s doubles
  • Spain opens case against soccer chief for World Cup kiss. Luis Rubiales breaks week-long silence
  • Jets and Aaron Rodgers are driving a lot of betting action at sportsbooks
  • Ravens’ DeCosta is excited to see Dobbins play, but he’ll keep contract prospects ‘in house’
  • Nationals come into matchup with the Marlins on losing streak
  • Braves bring 5-game win streak into matchup with the Dodgers

Washington Post

  • College football’s biggest challenge is remembering where everybody transferred
  • Week 1 college football preview: Can Penn State finally break through?
  • Novak Djokovic storms back from two sets down in test of survival at U.S. Open
  • At U.S. Open, rising Americans have talent, potential and inside jokes
  • Travis Blankenhorn makes a good first impression, but Nats’ skid continues
  • ‘He is a superhero’: Virginia’s Mike Hollins is set to play again after shooting
  • College football on TV: Colorado vs. TCU means it’s Coach Prime time

Atlanta Journal Constitution

  • Max Fried spins gem as Braves beat Dodgers again
  • Watch: Acuña receives gift, hug from Freddie Freeman after historic feat

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