ACC Football Rankings: October 8, 2012
This is particularly complex with Pitt and Syracuse not yet in the ACC, but it can still be done. This is how the Confidential ranks the ACC football teams as of October 8, 2012:
1. Florida State (5-1)–With its win over Clemson, the Confidential simply cannot punish the Seminoles for its road loss to North Carolina State THAT much. There is plenty more time for Clemson to show it deserves this spot over the team that it lost to.
2. Clemson (5-1)–In beating Georgia Tech, Clemson has itself set up nicely to pounce if/when Florida State disappoints next. The Tigers need to focus on running the table in the ACC and worry about its conference rival South Carolina only when that game week approaches.
3. Duke (5-1)–Duke keeps winning. That Stanford loss looks worse now, but who had the Blue Devils playing for bowl-eligibility in mid-October? Give credit where it is due.
4. North Carolina State (4-2)–Before the weekend, Florida State was in the national title picture. After this weekend, they are not. Credit North Carolina State for making that happen.
5. North Carolina (4-2)–The Tar Heels finally beat someone with some talent–the very talented Virginia Tech Hokies. They’ll have to prove that the deserve to stay in this spot when they visit Miami this week.
6. Miami (4-2)–Miami has yet to lose in conference play, but they have been simply awful against top 10 teams out of conference. They have been outscored 93-16. Not a typo. Wow.
7. Maryland (3-2)–Well, the Terrapins are above .500. They kept it as close against West Virginia as anyone all year. The best wins are Temple and Wake Forest though. Ugh.
8. Wake Forest (3-3)–The Demon Deacons beat North Carolina. Virginia Tech did not.
9. Virginia Tech(3-3)—Not that Wake Forest has done THAT much to be ahead of Virginia Tech. But Virginia Tech is struggling in a way that we have not seen under Frank Beamer.
10. Syracuse (2-3)–Syracuse was desperate for a win and got it, defeating Pitt 14-13. A pretty ugly win though.
11. Pittsburgh (2-3)—At least Pitt has a nice win over Virginia Tech. They lost a lot of momentum with that Syracuse loss though.
12. Georgia Tech (2-4)–The loss to Clemson was not bad, but the Georgia Tech resume is just not that impressive. They did beat Virginia though.
13. Virginia (2-4)–That lucky win over Penn State looks nice. But otherwise Virginia has been awful.
14. Boston College (1-4)–For a few weeks, the Confidential has been saying that Boston College doesn’t deserve to be #14. Losing to Army? There, now they deserve it.
Do you agree with these rankings? If not, let us know.
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