ACC Football Wrap-Up As I See It...

Sometimes when you look at a season in hindsight, thinks may look a little clearer. Other times, you're just as confused as you were when you started. That's how I feel about this season in the ACC.

You could say that the ACC kinda looked like the SEC this year (not in talent or anything like that, but I mean how everyone beats everyone). In no way am I comparing the ACC to the SEC, but simply saying that this year, like the SEC in the past, any team could win on any given day.

Now, unlike the SEC, the ACC didn't have a Florida or Alabama that completely dominated their divisions and then met in a colossal battle for the conference championship, which would send the winner to the BCS title game.

The ACC this year had teams who started off at the bottom and then finished the season on a streak to make it into a bowl. Then you had teams who got hot in the middle of the season, only to blow it. Lastly, you had teams who were inconsistent every week.

In my opinion, I think the most consistent team this year was Georgia Tech, under first year coach Paul Johnson. He took a team who finished mediocre at best to a team who was a real contender and beat an SEC powerhouse on their own field in a classic rivalry game.

It's hard to say who the real disappointment in the league was this year. In October, I could have easily said Clemson, but then under interim (now head coach) Dabo Swinney, they got hot and started playing pretty solid football.

With Virginia, you can't really say they were a disappointment. They did what they were expected to do. Sure, they looked good through October, but that was all—the rest of the season was pretty pathetic.

Then you have Virginia Tech. There was all this talk about how they weren't gonna be very good this year, yet they kept finding a way to win games. I personally don't think they were that good—they just happened to catch breaks at the right times, and now they're in the Orange Bowl.

As for Boston College, they should not be allowed to play in an ACC CG ever again. For the second straight year, they beat VT in the regular season and then forgot how to play in the postseason. I would have rather seen Florida State play VT.

So with this year in the ACC, it was hard to tell if the ACC was really good, or just really that bad all around. I guess we'll see in a few weeks once all these teams play bowl games.