Boston College (1-4, 0-2 in ACC)
Next game: at Florida State, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, ESPN2
Huddle up: RB Andre Williams became the ninth player in NCAA history and first since 2009 with a 99-yard TD run. He set the ACC record, breaking the mark of 98 yards set by Maryland's Steve Atkins in 1978. Williams finished with 191 yards on 21 carries in the loss to Army. … QB Chase Rettig leads the ACC with 306.2 yards per game. … DL Bryan Davis (Lithia Springs) has a leg injury and is questionable this week.
Tweetable fact: Boston College gave up four rushing touchdowns last week for the first time since Nov. 27, 2004.
Clemson (5-1, 2-1)
Next game: vs. Virginia Tech, noon Saturday, ABC/ESPN/ESPN2
Huddle up: Clemson is 9-0 when it has at least 600 yards of offense. The Tigers are 61-0-1 when they have at least 500 yards and are 60-0-1 when they have at least 200 yards passing and 200 yards rushing. They averaged 525.8 yards per game, first in the ACC. … DT Grady Jarrett (Rockdale County) recovered the first fumble of his career last week. … WR DeAndre Hopkins leads the ACC in catches per game (8.2), yards (128.8) and TD catches (eight).
Tweetable fact: Clemson had 601 yards against Georgia Tech, the eighth-best in school history and the most since it had 624 yards against Auburn in 2011.
Duke (5-1, 2-0)
Next game: at Virginia Tech, 12:30 p.m. Saturday, WUPA
Huddle up: Duke is off to its best start since 1994 and needs one victory to become bowl eligible. The Blue Devils haven't been to a bowl since that season. …. QB Anthony Boone threw four TD passes in his first career start. … WR Conner Vernon passed former Clemson WR Aaron Kelly to become the ACC's all-time leading receiver with 239 catches. Kelly had 232 from 2005-08. Vernon also has 3,230 yards, fourth on the career list. … P Will Monday (Flowery Branch) is 10th in the FBS with a 45.8-yard average after punting nine times for a 47-yard average in the win over Virginia.
Tweetable fact: The Blue Devils received points in the AP poll this week for the first time since 1994.
Florida State (5-1, 2-1)
Next game: vs. Boston College, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, ESPN2
Huddle up: Coach Jimbo Fisher isn't blaming the play-calling for the upset loss to N.C. State. "We just didn't execute. It's not the same guy. It's just one guy. A guy can grade 88 percent in a game and have two bad plays that happen to be at the wrong time. That's what it was an accumulation of in the second half." … LB Telvin Smith (Valdosta) had a career-high 10 tackles. … T Garrett Faircloth (Brunswick), who has a hip injury, and LB Ukeme Eligwe (Stone Mountain), who has a hand injury, are questionable this week.
Tweetable fact: K Dustin Hopkins has 387 career points to trail only Maryland's Nick Novak on the ACC career scoring list. Novak had 393 points from 2001-04.
Maryland (3-2, 1-0)
Next game: at Virginia, 3 p.m. Saturday, FSSO
Huddle up: Coach Randy Edsall has tried to find more playing time for QB-turned-WR Devin Burns (Carver-Columbus), who could run read-option plays. He stressed that there is no quarterback controversy with starter Perry Hills, who is a freshman. … Maryland surpassed its win total from 2011, when the Terrapins went 2-10. … Freshman Mike Madaras and redshirt freshman Andrew Zeller made their debuts on the offensive line last week. … LB L.A. Goree didn't play last week after being injured in warmups. Goree's injury isn't considered serious.
Tweetable fact: The Terrapins have held four of their first five opponents to less than 300 yards of offense.
Miami (4-2, 3-0)
Next game: vs. North Carolina, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, ESPNU
Huddle up: The Hurricanes have allowed an average of 556.7 yards the past three games and rank 118th in the FBS in total defense at 510 yards per game, ahead of only Louisiana Tech and Baylor. "It's a perfect storm of strength, experience, of execution, and we have to keep pounding away every day," coach Al Golden told the Miami Herald. … DE Shayon Green (Tift County) leads Miami with 39 tackles. … Miami has allowed one sack in its past four games.
Tweetable fact: WR Rashawn Scott, WR Phillip Dorsett, TE Clive Walford and RB Duke Johnson all have catches of at least 50 yards.
North Carolina (4-2, 1-1)
Next game: at Miami, 2:30 p.m., ESPNU
Huddle up: ACC offensive back of the week Giovani Bernard's 262 yards rushing Saturday are the most allowed by Virginia Tech in school history. He set a single-game school record by averaging 11.4 yards per carry, bettering Kelvin Bryant's mark of 11.1 set in 1981. … Sean Tapley is the ACC special-teams player of the week after scoring on a 94-yard kickoff return, the first Virginia Tech had allowed in 237 games. … North Carolina has averaged 44 points a game, ninth in the FBS.
Tweetable fact: North Carolina has scored at least 45 points in two consecutive games for the first time since 1993.
North Carolina State (4-2, 1-1)
Next game: at Maryland, 3:30 p.m. Oct. 20, ESPNU
Huddle up: Thomas Teal is the ACC's lineman of the week after he had six tackles, including two for loss, in the upset of Florida State. … N.C. State and Florida State are tied for the ACC lead with 16 sacks each. The Wolfpack had six sacks in their win over the Seminoles. … RG Cameron Fordham (Northview) and CB Juston Burris made their first career starts Saturday, the 12th and 13th players to do so this season. … C Cam Wentz (Lassiter) is the only offensive lineman to start all six games in the same position. … Freshman WR Shadrach Thornton (Liberty County) caught his first career TD pass.
Tweetable fact: WR Bryan Underwood set a school record with a TD catch in six consecutive games.
Virginia (2-4, 0-2)
Next game: vs. Maryland, 3 p.m. Saturday., FSSO
Huddle up: Virginia is minus-12 in turnover margin, with three takeaways and 15 giveaways, the worst mark in the FBS. Opponents have turned those turnovers into 55 points. … Virginia hadn't scored a rushing TD since Sept. 1 until Kevin Parks scored in the first quarter of Saturday's loss to Duke. … Phillip Sims, who transferred from Alabama, was 21-for-42 for 268 yards passing in his first career start.
Tweetable fact: Sims made his first start since Dec. 5, 2009, when he was at Oscar Smith High School in Chesapeake, Va.
Virginia Tech (3-3, 1-1)
Next game: vs. Duke, 12:30 p.m. Saturday, WUPA
Huddle up: CB Antone Exum on the 3-3 start: "I never thought that we would be considered an average team by any means." … The Virginian-Pilot reported that defensive coordinator Bud Foster used the words "atrocious," "pathetic" and "unacceptable" to describe the defense. … The Hokies had won 23 consecutive road ACC games.
Tweetable fact: Freshman DT Alston Smith is the son of NFL Hall of Fame DE Bruce Smith, who also attended Virginia Tech.
Wake Forest (3-3, 1-3)
Next game: at Virginia, 12:30 p.m. Oct. 20, WUPA
Huddle up: OL Gabe Irby (Habersham Central) had his first career reception, on a batted pass. … Replacing the injured Michael Campanaro (hand), WR Terence Davis (Brookwood) had seven catches for 130 yards, including a 73-yard TD reception. … CB Merrill "Bud" Noel, LB Mike Olson, S Daniel Mack, G Frank Souza, RB Deandre Martin and WR Airyn Willis were suspended for Saturday's game because of failed drug tests, the Winston-Salem Journal reported. All are expected to play Oct. 20.
Tweetable fact: G Antonio Ford could miss the rest of the season with a broken tibia.
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