It feels like this season kind of fizzled on the ACC. In the preseason, the possibility of the league having multiple headliner/top-15 teams seemed good, what with the caliber of quarterbacks in this league.
But it definitely hasn’t worked out that way. Sure, the ACC still has several ranked teams, but no one has emerged to share the national spotlight with Clemson.
And as far as SP+ goes, there aren’t even two ACC teams in the top 30. Yeesh. Here’s what’s changed in SP+, if anything, since I last checked in a few weeks back:
ACC in SP+
| Team | SP+ Rk After Week 6 | SP+ Rk After Week 9 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clemson | 13 | 11 | 2 |
| FSU | 33 | 33 | 0 |
| Wake Forest | 30 | 34 | -4 |
| UNC | 51 | 37 | 14 |
| NC State | 32 | 43 | -11 |
| Louisville | 60 | 44 | 16 |
| Syracuse | 57 | 48 | 9 |
| Pitt | 42 | 59 | -17 |
| Miami | 54 | 62 | -8 |
| Duke | 77 | 76 | 1 |
| Virginia | 83 | 81 | 2 |
| Virginia Tech | 86 | 91 | -5 |
| Georgia Tech | 85 | 97 | -12 |
| BC | 94 | 99 | -5 |
Six of the ACC’s seven top-50 squads are in the Atlantic Division.