Friday, January 2, 2009

ACC Is Making Me Look Bad

For all the blustering I've done about the ACC being college football's second best conference (this post plus numerous text conversations) they haven't done much to back me up come bowl season. 

The conference finished up at 4-6 in bowl season, hardly enforcing my claim. Florida State posted the conference's most impressive win, laying a beat-down on Wisconsin in the Champs Bowl. Meanwhile, GT was by far the conference's most perplexing and embarrassing loss, as they were dropped by LSU 38-3. GT had already beaten Ole Miss and Georgia out of the SEC, so it seems odd they would pick such a time to fall apart to another mid-level SEC team. Nonetheless, there it was, though.

Some notable conference records in bowl games so far:
Pac 10: 5-0, with 0 to play
Big 12: 3-1 with 3 to play
SEC:  3-1 with 4 to play
Big East: 3-2 with 1 to play
MWC: 2-2 with 1 to play
ACC: 4-6 with 0 to play
Big 10: 1-5 with 1 to play

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