How many ACC teams will make the college playoff?
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Oct 30, 2024
With only a month to go in the college football regular season, how many ACC teams will make the playoff?
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Hey, Fizz Nation, what's going on? Tyler Aiken here at W.A.R. We're preparing for a broadcast of Syracuse versus Virginia Tech football this week. But let's look bigger picture. Let's look ACC and how many teams can get into the new expanded 12-team college football playoff. And I was actually talking to someone from the ACC Network, Eric McLean, last week, about this very topic. And he said three teams can make it. Now, the three he said would be the winner of the ACC title
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game, the loser of the ACC title game, and then maybe a third team
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He said he felt very comfortable about the first two, likely going to be Miami and Clemson
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but there's a lot of strong other teams. SMU is a very strong new addition to the ACC that could win out, but then not make the ACC
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title game because it does not play Clemson or Miami for the rest of the year
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Pittsburgh also has a pretty solid schedule, would have to beat SMU, but Pitt undefeated right now
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have a path. Then he also mentioned there were a few other strong contenders as well. Syracuse
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of course, that was before Syracuse lost to Pittsburgh. And a few other teams around the
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conference have pretty good resumes. But two seems to be the minimum and three seems to be the
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maximum. Regardless, that's a lot better than some people thought going into the season where
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the ACC was maybe going to be a one team conference, especially with the SEC and Big Ten getting
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so much stronger. But it's been pretty good. The new 17 team conference
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has had a pretty strong start in a new look NCAA and could be having three teams in the
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college football playoff
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