Now that we cannot possibly jinx the band's December vacation, let's take a look at where they and the rest of the ACC may be headed based on the results through Week 9 of the college football season.
There are only so many ways one can say that Pitt has six wins and it's only October. Let's savor it by doing a way-too-early bowl projection roundup article. Notre Dame is eligible for the ACC's bowl tie-ins and is thus included here. I've included bowl payouts (source) as a metric of the prestige of the bowl, to remind us all of the inextricable link between commerce and nominally "amateur" athletics, and because the gift suites are probably better at the nicer bowls.