Full-color action-packed Atlantic Coast Conference Football Pictures

From the Wall Street Journal

With sports fans still getting used to their high-definition television sets, the National Football League is already thinking ahead to the next potential upgrade: 3-D.

Next week, a game between the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders will be broadcast live in 3-D to theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston. It is a preliminary step on what is likely a long road to any regular 3-D broadcasts of football games.

The several hundred guests at the three participating theaters Dec. 4 will include representatives from the NFL’s broadcasting partners and from consumer-electronics companies. The event will be closed to the general public. Burbank, Calif.-based 3ality Digital LLC will shoot the game with special cameras and transmit it to a satellite. Thomson SA’s Technicolor Digital Cinema is providing the satellite services and digital downlink to each theater, and Real D 3D Inc. will power the display in the theaters.

In the 2004 Super Bowl, 3ality tested its ability to film football in 3-D.

This isn’t the first time the NFL has participated in a 3-D experiment. In 2004, a predecessor company to 3ality filmed the Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Carolina Panthers. When Sandy Climan, 3ality’s chief executive officer, shows the footage, “people crouch down to catch the ball,” he says. “It’s as if the ball is coming into your arms.”

Technology has advanced considerably since then, and now makes live transmission possible. Boxing in 3-D, Mr. Climan says, particularly “raises your blood pressure.”

Real D, which has rolled out 3-D systems in 1,500 theaters around the world, has long advocated the transmission of live events to theaters in 3-D.

Some live events, including opera broadcasts and circus performances, already pop up on screens at theaters across the country.

Next week’s demonstration will also include television displays, to show what might one day be available in homes. While 3-D television sets are already available in stores, mainly for the handful of DVDs available in 3-D, the industry is still working on technical standards for 3-D.

That process raises the possibility that 3-D TV sets purchased today might not be compatible with programs aired in a few years’ time. Just as in theaters, home viewers must wear special 3-D glasses.

At today’s Georgia Tech at UNC football game we got to see the new dark blue uniform

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Here’s what my mockup from last year looked like

New UNC football uniform

Looks like I was off on the lettering.

The Duke Blue Devils had their last ACC football win almost four years ago on November 13, 2004.

They beat Clemson 16-13 with a field goal with only two seconds left on the clock.

Duke goes into today’s game against the University of Viginia Cavaliers as seven point favorites. Will they finally  break their long winning drought against Atlantic Coast Conference opponents today?

Here’s a sequence of pictures from the 2004 win.

Duke 16, Clemson 13 November 13, 2004 Photo Gallery

The Atlantic Coast Conference announced Sunday all of the game times and television for Saturday, Sept. 20 including the three games held on a six-day option for ESPN/ABC. Virginia Tech at North Carolina and Miami at Texas A&M will be televised regionally by ABC at 3:30 pm Both games will also be available out of their regions on ESPN (reverse mirror):

Saturday, Sept. 20
Mississippi State at Georgia Tech, Raycom, 12 noon
Virginia Tech at North Carolina, ABC, 3:30 pm (reverse mirror on ESPN)
Miami at Texas A&M, ABC, 3:30 pm (reverse mirror on ESPN)

Previously Announced
East Carolina at NC State, ESPN*, 12 noon
UCF at Boston College, ESPNU, 1 pm
Eastern Michigan at Maryland, ESPN 360, 1 pm
South Carolina State at Clemson, ESPN 360, 1 pm
Wake Forest at Florida State, ESPN2, 7 pm

ESPN360 is ESPN’s video streaming platform
* Network confirmation today.

I have uploaded a video clip of the Duke Blue Devils football team running onto the field at Wallace Wade Stadium for the game against the Navy Midshipmen.
You will notice that Duke has updated their Devil mascot. They have also removed the inflatable plastic tunnel and placed gates on the entrance to the tunnel.

Did you see the Carolina football game against Rutgers Thursday night on ESPN?

Did you notice something a little different about the uniforms?

Mockup of possible new UNC football uniform

Last year I did a mock up of what could be the new look for North Carolina football. Back then it was “strictly a rumor”.

The Sun-Sentinel floated the idea of a different kind of Tar Heel blue:

One of those potential changes could prove to be the most controversial. Already the rumor mill is buzzing that Davis dislikes Carolina blue and wants to change the jersey color to navy next season. That idea may not fly, but it’s an indication Davis, 55, will stop at nothing to remake the program in his image.

Of course, UNC head football coach Butch Davis denied the rumors back then.

But are we really that far off from what the mock up looked like?

UNC football uniform. Photo by N&O's Robert Willett.

Greensboro, N.C. - The Atlantic Coast Conference announced Monday that ESPN/ABC has announced a six-day option for three games on Sept. 20. two of the games–Virginia Tech at North Carolina and Mississippi State at Georgia Tech are held through ABC/ESPN’s contract with the ACC and will be televised by either Raycom Sports at 12 noon, or ABC regionally at 3:30 pm. The game shown on ABC will also be distributed to other regions of the country on ESPN.

ESPN/ABC, through its Big 12 contract, is also holding the Miami at Texas A&M game which will be shown on ABC, but could have a 3:30 or 8 pm kickoff at College Station.

All game times and networks will be announced no later than 12 noon ET this Sunday. All other game times and TV for the ACC on Sept. 20 follow:

I have uploaded a video clip of the teams running onto BB&T field for the football home opener for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons against the Ole Miss Rebels.

NC State 34, William & Mary 24
Backup quarterback Harrison Beck threw two touchdown passes, and North Carolina State held off William & Mary 34-24 Saturday for its first win of the season.

I uploaded William & Mary Tribe at NC State Wolfpack football photos here.