Re: Will this be the year that the media admits ACC is #1?

I know this horse has been beaten to death, but I want to kick the corpse one more time.

It’s obvious that the SEC and their media partners have convinced America that they are the premier conference for football even though they only have a couple good teams. Nobody wants to mention the inconvenient fact that the SEC teams lost a combined 77 games last season. When I turn on ESPiN, they act like the SEC went undefeated. SEVENTY SEVEN LOSSES.

Nobody ever mentions how strong the ACC is from top to bottom. THE CONFERENCE WENT EXACTLY 500 IN CONFERENCE PLAY. That doesn’t happen in the top heavy SEC. The SEC had a 10 loss team. Let that sink in for a minute. Nobody in the ACC lost that many games.

I could go on and on about how the ACC had four teams ranked between 3 and 20 while the SEC only had two and how badly Clemson beat USC, but it seems like everyone in Bristol cares about as much as my date last night cared about a stroke by stroke review of my five consecutive pars. Wake up people! Rant over.

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Mar 31, 2022, 11:51 AM

This is a joke, right? Your argument concerning teams in the final polls is flawed because you purposefully leave out the top two spots...both of which are SEC teams. So, in the top 20 (I'm guessing you chose 20 instead of the usual 25 because Arkansas was at #21 in the final AP poll, #20 in the final Coaches Poll), SEC teams were at #1, #2, #11, and #18, for an average final ranking of #8. ACC teams were at #13, #14, #15, and #20, for an average final ranking of #15.5.

Also, looking at the conferences from top to bottom, here's how they did last year -

Overall

ACC - 94 W, 82 L = 53.4% winning percentage

SEC - 111 W, 73 L = 60.3% winning percentage

Against AP Top 25 Opponents

ACC - 9 W, 25 L = 26.5% winning percentage

SEC - 24 W, 33 L = 42.1% winning percentage

So the SEC won more games overall and played in and won more games vs other Top 25 opponents, but somehow the ACC is better?

Now, were the ACC's issues last year exaggerated because they didn't have a team in the playoffs? Sure, of course. Were they most likely better than the media portrayed? Yes. But you totally tried to cherry pick facts to support your argument that they're better than the SEC, which just doesn't hold up.

And one stat you left out...the ACC went 3-8 head-to-head against the SEC last year.

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Will this be the year that the media admits ACC is #1?