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This is from the CNNSI website. Posted by Stewart Mandel regarding 5 Things We Learned This Weekend.
"2. That the ACC is closing the gap on the SEC. Did you notice that an unofficial ACC-SEC Challenge took place Saturday? The conferences played four games against one another - and the ACC took three of them (Georgia Tech over Georgia, Clemson over South Carolina and Wake Forest over Vanderbilt). When the ACC expanded in 2004, there was much speculation as to whether Tobacco Road would eventually eclipse Dixie Delight as the South's premier conference. The notion seemed ludicrous at the timem but guess what? It could be a year away.
This year's ACC is a deeper league than the SEC, as evidenced by its 10 bowl-eligible teams. However, next week's SEC title game will pit the AP's top two teams, Alabama and Florida, while the ACC's combatants, Boston College and Virginia Tech, are 18th and unranked. The ACC has no Florida or Alabama, as evidenced by the other SEC-ACC score Saturday: Florida's 45-14 rout of Florida State. But did you watch Georgia Tech's performance against Georgia? Those running backs were freshmen and sophomores. There's your elite team in '09."
"2. That the ACC is closing the gap on the SEC. Did you notice that an unofficial ACC-SEC Challenge took place Saturday? The conferences played four games against one another - and the ACC took three of them (Georgia Tech over Georgia, Clemson over South Carolina and Wake Forest over Vanderbilt). When the ACC expanded in 2004, there was much speculation as to whether Tobacco Road would eventually eclipse Dixie Delight as the South's premier conference. The notion seemed ludicrous at the timem but guess what? It could be a year away.
This year's ACC is a deeper league than the SEC, as evidenced by its 10 bowl-eligible teams. However, next week's SEC title game will pit the AP's top two teams, Alabama and Florida, while the ACC's combatants, Boston College and Virginia Tech, are 18th and unranked. The ACC has no Florida or Alabama, as evidenced by the other SEC-ACC score Saturday: Florida's 45-14 rout of Florida State. But did you watch Georgia Tech's performance against Georgia? Those running backs were freshmen and sophomores. There's your elite team in '09."
