Put Up Time For The ACC

If you listened to all the experts you would think ACC football is one step short of Division III.  The truth says however that the ACC has more  players in the NFL except the SEC.  If all the talk in Tampa is true the Wolfpack will have three starting quarterbacks in the NFL and no other school in the country can boast of that.  Every Saturday when the TV ratings come out the ACC is nipping at the SEC heels at who watched college football.  They have more watcher than the Big Ten, Big 12 and The Pac ever how many.

Why does the ACC have such a bad repetition when it has so many players in the NFL.  The facts are these.  The ACC and the SEC are intertwined being southern football conferences.  When it comes to playing non-conferences games it is just so much easier playing somebody close by over flying halfway across the country.  When the ACC plays national TV games you don't see Florida State and Kentucky play each other but it is against the big boys of the SEC the Alabama's and LSU's of the conference.

Ever since Bobby Bowden stayed too long at Florida State which was around the turn of the century the ACC has not had a national championship contender.  Miami the team that when they joined the ACC everyone thought they would dominate football and baseball haven't come close in either.  This year Florida State and Clemson are suppose to be national title contenders if they are it's time to put up.

This week is the first week of the college football season.  The real Carolina (North) heads south to take on the team that likes to call themselves Carolina.  They are around sixth in preseason polls.  Once again the ACC is matched up with a team ranked higher but if the ACC is to get this monkey off their back about  being second fiddle to the SEC they have got to start beating the SEC.

I doubt the ACC has a chance with Virginia Tech playing Alabama even if everyone thought Tech was good but sounds like the are going to have more players on MASH than on the field.  Clemson and North Carolina one of the two needs to win for the ACC.  The ACC doesn't need to win all three to start getting some respect just win ONE.