Since we are on a bye week and the bulk of conference play looms ahead, let’s take a step back and look at the 3-1 Virginia Cavaliers in comparison to the rest of the ACC.
While the ACC has been validly ridiculed for their relative lack of national championship contenders, they have been performing on par with the Big 12 and Big Ten overall. Shockingly, if you look at the head-to-head numbers (not a completely controlled experiment obviously), it seems like the SEC is in its own tier and then there’s the rest.