Losing has grown more common lately, though there’s no sign it’s become more popular.
Last year a third of the ACC’s membership (.333 percent) finished with losing records. In 2019 it was 6 of 15 teams (.400). Neither season was perceived as a vintage effort for the ACC.
Seven ACC members had losing records in the past two years.
In fact, since the most recent league expansion in 2014 and 2015, just six ACC programs (.400) avoided a losing season – Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Louisville, Syracuse and Virginia.
That’s right – Clemson.
Last season’s most stunning plummet from the stratosphere of success was of course endured by North Carolina.