ACC: America's Conference of Comedy

irginia was off thumping the Big XII champion in the Fiesta Bowl, Virginia Tech was losing to a team who didn't even qualify for the Big XII championship game. While the final score of that game said the Hokies lost by just three points, Kansas really dominated that football game. Just as Louisville dominated Wake Forest the year before.

The ACC champion hasn't finished the year ranked higher than 10th since Florida State was in the top 5 following their loss to Oklahoma in the national championship game following the 2000 season. That was the last time an ACC team finished in the top 5.

So why does this league have an automatic berth in the BCS? What have they done to deserve it? The league champion of the ACC time and time again comes up short in comparisons to the champions of the other BCS conferences, so why do they deserve to have this champion guaranteed a spot among the nation's elite bowl games? It's clear that the ACC champion isn't among the nation's elite teams.

Something else to think about is this: Florida State's win in that Sugar Bowl came against Virginia Tech, now a member of the ACC. Just a bit of irony that only adds to the gloom and doom that is ACC football.

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