With Watson gone Clemson will be hard pressed to have a winning season next year. Florida State will run away with the ACC. Swinney was blabbing
today that the ACC is the best conference in the country and no one wants to play an ACC school. He gets pissed off easy because he’s not crazy and he knows damn well the ACC in not a power football conference. The ACC is a basketball conference and always will be. The ACC in football in football is Clemson and Florida State and nobody else.
Facts are, the SEC is only Bama. If by “football conference” you mean it’s full of semi-literate fans who never darkened the doorway of the schools they do crazy things to root for, that’s true; there are more of those in the SEC. But the ACC had the best bowl record again (by far at 6-2); the only winning record against Power 5 teams out of conference; the Heisman winner from a team other than FSU or CU, etc. It is also the best basketball and baseball league by far and tops in Olympic sports. In that regard, it is not just a top heavy “football league” like the SEC. But it takes a backseat to no one even in football.