If you liked good quarterbacking, you hopefully didn't watch Saturday afternoon's ACC collision between the Miami Hurricanes and the Clemson Tigers. On a day when one team had to win (no ties in college football, remember), two signal callers set back the sport of football by at least two decades.

You would need to look long and hard to find a game from week five of the college football season that involved a more improbable combination of high stakes and horrible passing than this tilt in the Palmetto State. When all was said and done at Memorial Stadium, the visiting Hurricanes tried hard to lose, but the homestanding Tigers succeeded.

Yes, it was that kind of a train-wreck afternoon, as two ACC title contenders acted more like mediocre middle-tier outfits in a ragged affair that left a home crowd sick to its collective stomach... and the Hurricanes atop the ACC Coastal Division alongside the league's constant, Virginia Tech.

Throughout his up-and-down career in South Florida, Miami quarterback Jacory Harris has had a penchant for looking brilliant in one moment and brutally awful the next. This pattern was in evidence on Saturday, and as a pure percentage of his pass attempts, the bad outstripped the good. Harris went hit just 13 of 33 passes while throwing two really bad picks, one on a floated deep ball into double coverage and the second one coming in the end zone on a third-and-goal snap for Miami at the Clemson 4. Harris did a fine job... of keeping Clemson in the game in the first half and, for that matter through the game's first 52 minutes. Why did the Canes still manage to leave Death Valley with a victory, given all of Jacory Harris's now-familiar slip-ups?