Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi had his talking points all ready to go before he made his annual trip to ACC media days.
But the day before he was set to arrive in Charlotte, North Carolina, Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher took the stage and had something fairly significant to say about his conference.
“We’ve established ourselves as the premiere conference in college football,” Fisher told reporters.
Alarm bells went off around the country, and particularly in the SEC, where the partisans have laid claim to the top spot in the best-conference debate for much of the past decade.