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17. Just How Good Is The ACC?

Solid, and getting better.

While the ACC took a bit of a hit in the bowl season with Boston College, the league's runner-up in the title game, losing to Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech getting stomped by LSU in the Chick-fil-A, Miami losing a true road game against Cal, and NC State and Clemson also losing, it was a banner year for a conference that hasn't been able to get over the hump and become the superpower envisioned by the league's head honchos when it raided the Big East for teams.

While the league still isn't the SEC, and probably never will be, and it wasn't as good as the Big 12 last year, a good case could be made that it was the third best conference after a rock-solid group of non-conference wins. Just go right down the list and everyone had a respectable non-conference win on the resume. But there was also a bad loss or two that kept the league from making a run in the argument of 2008?s best conference.

Boston College - Beat Notre Dame, lost to Vanderbilt

Clemson - Beat South Carolina, lost to Alabama and Nebraska

Duke - Beat Vanderbilt, lost to Northwestern

Florida State - Beat Colorado and Wisconsin, lost to Florida

Georgia Tech - Beat Mississippi State and Georgia, lost to LSU

Maryland - Beat Cal, lost to Middle Tennessee

Miami Beat Texas A&M, lost to Florida and Cal

North Carolina - Beat Rutgers, Connecticut, and Notre Dame, lost to West Virginia

NC State - Beat East Carolina (who was unbeaten and the hot team at the time), lost to South Carolina, South Florida, and Rutgers

Virginia - Beat East Carolina, lost to USC and Connecticut

Virginia Tech - Beat Nebraska (at Nebraska) and Cincinnati, lost to East Carolina

Wake Forest - Beat Baylor, Ole Miss and Navy (in the bowl), lost to Navy (in the regular season)

While that might not seem all that impressive, with every good win balanced out by an equally decent loss, try doing that with any other conference. No other league was able to represent itself quite as well in the grinding, middle-of-the-pack games, but that's not what the ACC is looking for. It wants to be among the elite of the elite, at least to the point to where it can get a second team into the BCS on a regular basis.

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The Spring ACC Team Rankings
1. North Carolina
2. Georgia Tech
3. Clemson
4. Virginia Tech
5. Miami
6. Boston College
7. Florida State
8. NC State
9. Virginia
10. Wake Forest
11. Maryland
12. Duke


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