Tuesday, September 11, 2007

What Has Happened to the ACC?

Virginia Tech, Florida State and Miami have been smacked on national TV in the first two weeks of the season. Defending champ Wake Forest blows the chance to knock off a resurgent Nebraska. North Carolina loses to East Carolina. Virginia loses to Wyoming.
Duke is still Duke and NC State is starting to become Duke. The saving grace in the league seems to be Georgia Tech, Clemson and BC. But none of those strike fear into the national conscience and at least one will fall from the ranks of the undefeated this weekend.

Ironically, the ACC doesn't even have the interconference swagger that the Big East does---the Big East has a 3-1 record vs other BCS squads. yup, go ahead and raid the best three programs from that league and all of a sudden, the ACC is 1-4 vs the BCS conferences (and that 1 is vs. Notre Dame). The mark will probably go to 2-4 with Florida State's game vs a rebuilding Colorado, but still, it's a sad statement.

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