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Louisville winds up ACC play this weekend pretty much knowing that a win over Wake Forest isnt going to be enough to get the Cardinals into the conference championship game.That would take a complete collapse by undefeated Clemson over the next two weeks.But the No. 6 Cardinals (8-1, 6-1 ACC) still harbor hopes of snagging one of the four spots in the College Football Playoff as they prepare to host Wake Forest Saturday. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. ET with ESPN2 telecasting from Papa Johns Cardinal Stadium in Louisville.After the Demon Deacons (6-3, 3-2 ACC) the Cardinals go out of conference play with a trip to Houston and a home game against instate rival Kentucky winding up their regular season.Impressive wins in their last three games could provide them with an argument to be included in the playoff, but Cardinals coach Bobby Petrino wants his players to focus only on the Deacons, who nearly upset the Cardinals last year in Winston-Salem.All I told them was we can only control how we play, how we go out and perform, and how we win games, Petrino said. That is the only thing we can control right there.How they win games is usually big. The Cardinals romped past Boston College 52-7 last week and earlier whipped North Carolina State 54-13, Florida State 63-20, and Syracuse 63-28.Quarterback Lamar Jackson has been the main catalyst and early on established himself as the favorite for the Heisman Trophy. He has rushed for over 131 yards a game, passed for nearly 306, and has accounted for 45 touchdowns -- 19 on runs and 26 on passes -- while throwing just six interceptions in 288 pass attempts.But the Cardinals also have had some close calls.They scored a late touchdown that came with the help of a late penalty against Duke for a 10-point win at home over the Blue Devils, and they scored with just 13 seconds left for a 32-25 win at Virginia after falling behind 25-24 with just over two minutes left. The Cardinals lost by six at Clemson after falling behind by 18 points.The close calls could have affected Louisvilles placement when the first CFP rankings came out last week. The Cardinals were No. 7 then.I know that last week when the rankings came out our players were upset about it, Petrino said. Really what we talked about was that we really just need to go out and play well and execute and play the type of ball that we know how to play.I do think it motivated us.The result was the 45-point destruction of Boston College.Wake Forest, with its aggressive and veteran defense, could be a different matter.Their defensive front will be as active as anybody we have played this year, Petrino said. What I mean by that is they really rush the passer, they play great technique on the run, their linebackers are fast and sprint to the football, and very experienced secondary.While the Cardinals came into the season looking to compete for a national championship, the Deacons have already achieved their goal. Coach Dave Clawson made no secret of the fact he was intent on getting his team into the postseason. With six wins already and a plethora of bowls, that seems a certainty.I was very open about it and very frank about it at the beginning of the year, that I thought it was a very realistic expectation to go to a bowl game this year, he said. I would have been very disappointed if we didnt get into a bowl.Quarterback John Wolford, who has started since his freshman year, has been a key figure. He had a 64-yard touchdown run in Wakes 27-20 win over Virginia last week and is second on the team in rushing with 456 yards, behind running back Matt Colburns 463. The Deacons have already rushed for more yards in nine games (1,476) than they had all of 2015 (1,262).This was a big goal for us going into the year, Wolford said of reaching bowl eligibility. But we cant be satisfied. Yeezy Goedkoop . The Hall of Fame defenceman told Landsberg that he believes fighting still has a place in todays game, but thinks staged fighting needs be outlawed. Yeezy Boost 350 V2 Nederland http://www.yeezysnederland.com/ . The defending champion beat Gael Monfils of France 7-6 (6), 6-3, while second-seeded Andy Murray of Britain dispatched Edouard Roger-Vasselin, also of France, 6-3, 6-3. Making his first appearance since injuring his wrist a month ago, Del Potro had difficulty with his service games in the first set. Yeezy Boost 350 Nederland . Brazilian national coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has confirmed that the veteran goalkeeper is set to join Toronto on loan, saying it will help him be ready for the World Cup. Yeezy 700 V2 Kopen . The players spoke Jan. 13 during a Major League Baseball Players Association conference call after Rodriguez sued the union and Major League Baseball to overturn an arbitrators decision suspending him for the 2014 season and post-season. Junior middleweight titleholder Liam Smith is not Gennady Golovkin. He knows that. Trust him.He has heard and read the backlash from fans and media alike who have made it crystal clear in recent months that their preference is for lineal middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez to fight Golovkin, the unified middleweight titlist and one of boxings most fearsome fighters, and not Smith, a largely unknown fighter outside his native England.Alas, Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs), 26, of Mexico, vacated his alphabet middleweight title and elected to drop down to junior middleweight, where he and his Golden Boy Promotions handlers picked Smith as the next opponent with the shaky promise that the fight with Golovkin is on their radar for fall of 2017.So Alvarez will face Smith on Sept. 17 in the main event on an HBO PPV card at AT&T Stadium -- home of the Dallas Cowboys -- in Arlington, Texas, and the attempt to sell an event few are hyped for began in earnest with the kickoff news conference on Monday at the stadium.Im getting some backlash because the Canelo-GGG fight is not happening, Smith said in an interview with ESPN.com just before the news conference began. A lot of the American fans thought because of Canelos last fight that he might get the GGG fight next because of the things he said at the post-fight press conference.Indeed, after Alvarez spectacularly knocked out Amir Khan in their 155-pound catch weight fight for the middleweight title on May 7 in Las Vegas, Alvarez and promoter Oscar De La Hoya spoke aggressively about making the much-anticipated fight against Golovkin, only to later have Alvarez vacate the title, promise to fight GGG late next year and then sign to fight Smith.Canelo built up a lot of peoples hopes up and then, obviously, we know what happened, Smith said. He gave up the title and a lot of people were unhappy with him and now hes fighting me and a lot of people dont know me, but they will after Sept. 17.Canelo avoided Golovkin to go back to 154 and I think he made the mistake of going back at 154 and choosing me.Smith (23-0-1, 13 KOs) certainly came off as confident heading into his biggest fight against easily the best opponent of his career. Although he has made two title defenses, he has not exactly faced murders row. He won the vacant belt by seventh-round knockout of John Thompson in October and retained it against unknown opponents in Jimmy Kilrain Kelly by seventh-round knockout in December and by second-round KO of Predrag Radosevic on June 4.Im very excited to fight Canelo, Smith said. Hes the biggest name in boxing and this stadium just adds to the excitement. I will embrace this. Im not coming here in awe of Canelo. Im definitely coming to win.Smith went into the June 4 fight knowing it was likely he would get the fight with Alvarez as long as he won.I was asked if I would be interested and I said yes, of course, but I knew I had to win June 4, Smith said. If I didnt beat Radosevic there was no other big fight for me, so I concentrated on winning and noot thinking about Canelo.dddddddddddd. But Id be lying if I said it didnt excite me.The morning after he beat Radosevic, Smith said he woke up and called manager Matthew Macklin, the former longtime middleweight contender.I said, How close are we? There were little things to be finalized and confirmed, but the truth is I would have taken the fight with Canelo no matter what, Smith said. I wanted the big fight. I wanted either (Miguel) Cotto or Canelo and this one came first. I think Canelo is very good. He does lots of things very well, but he does things where we can have success. I do think hes been promoted and looked after very well. Hes had his matches picked very well.Smith claimed he is a big, strong junior middleweight, nothing like Alvarezs recent opponents, James Kirkland and Khan, both who have the reputation of having a soft chi. Both got blasted out by Alvarez.Alvarezs knockout of Kirkland in May 2015 was the ESPN.com knockout of the year. Khan, Smiths countryman, was a welterweight who moved up eight pounds to face Alvarez and paid the price when he got nailed with the first big punch of the fight in a leading 2016 KO of the year candidate.Kirkland and Khan are chinny fighters, Smith said. I am not like that. Canelo is coming down from 155 to 154 and I am a solid 154-pounder, not a small 154. Size wont make a difference in this fight. He is in for a shock. The more people see the build-up to this fight and the more people do their homework, theyll see.Im not just coming here for a payday. Im not an old guy at the end of my career looking for a payday. Ive got a title to keep. Im 27. Im not 32 or 35 on my way out. Ive got a style fans will like and Im coming here to win, and you will know it by my performance.Smith comes from a fighting family, with three brothers who are also quality pros: Callum is a top super middleweight contender, Paul twice fought for super middleweight world titles and Stephen is a junior lightweight contender who lost a world title fight earlier this year.Weve had some big nights in the family, but this night will trump them all, Liam Smith said.Alvarez has already beaten a few British fighters, including Khan, Matthew Hatton and Ryan Rhodes. Smith is not exactly looking to avenge their lossesb but hes thought about the fact that Alvarez has been successful against Brits.I dont want to be too disrespectful to those guys, but I feel I am a better fighter than those guys, he said. This is a totally different fight. Canelo knows that.And if Smith can pull off the victory, it will take its place in the pantheon of Great Britains biggest boxing victories.It would be huge, one of the biggest, Smith said. It would be the biggest one I can remember because we know how big of a name Canelo is at the moment. Floyd Mayweather is gone so he is the biggest name in the sport at the minute.Its a massive win for me when I get it. ' ' '