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ACC Standings

Clemson, USC On Top

South Carolina and Clemson
continue to be the only teams with
unblemished conference records as
the centennial year of college
football moves into its sixth week.

Frank Howard's Tigers clinched
their second league victory last
Saturday and trail South Carolina
now by half a game. It is possible
that the championship won't be
determined until the two rival
clash heads in Columbia on November
22.

Although at the beginning of the
season no one would have guessed
it, Maryland is the only other ACC
team with less than two conference
losses, 2-1, their sudden glory seems
short-lived as they will make
successive trips to South Carolina,
meeting the Gamecocks this Saturday
and Clemson one week hence.

Two other conference scraps are
scheduled for this weekend, with
Duke traveling to Raleigh to face
N.C. State, and North Carolina
playing host to Wake Forest. Fresh
from Saturday's romp at Scott
Stadium, the Wolfpack will play its
last conference game against the
Blue Devils from Durham. After
this one, the defending ACC champions
will sit back and watch if
some other club is able to knock
off the two undefeated South
Carolina teams.

Virginia and Clemson play out
of the league this Saturday. Alabama's
Crimson Tide rolls into
Clemson to take on Howard's "dark
meat" while the Cavaliers seem a
little less ambitious, playing winless
Navy in Annapolis.

Statistically, Virginia continues
as the team offense and defense
leader in the ACC, but instead of
setting the pace in six categories, as
they did B.W. (Before Wolfpack),
they now find themselves ahead in
only four.

N.C. State is the new leader in
scoring and defense against scoring,
according to statistics released by
Commissioner James Weaver.

Surprisingly enough, South
Carolina and Clemson, who are
wiping up as far as winning games is
concerned, do not lead in a single
team category. The Gamecocks are
second in both total offense and
scoring, while the Tigers rank
second in passing for its highest
position.

Only two teams, Virginia and
South Carolina, are averaging better
than 300 yards a game in total
offense, as compared to seven
teams at this same stage of the
season last year. In fact the
Wahoos' current average of 334.2
would have only been good for
third place last year.

In addition to team offense and
defense, Mr. Blackburn's boys lead
in rushing offense, with a 236.6
yard average, and rushing defense,
with an 86.8 yard average.