(11-04-2019 08:55 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(11-04-2019 08:15 AM)esayem Wrote:  

(11-03-2019 10:09 PM)sierrajip Wrote:  (OT) Bowden really screwed up not going to the SEC.

Yes, that’s the problem here. Because the ACC hasn’t produced three champions this decade, including FSU.

Come on. The ACC didn't "produce" those champions. ACC football isn't like ACC basketball, where when a Virginia or Duke wins the national title you can say the ACC "produced" them, because competing in the rigorous ACC made them razor-sharp for competing in the NCAA tournament.

The only way one can say that the ACC helped FSU in the 1990s and in 2013, and Clemson the past 5 years, is in making it easy, via soft competitition, to have great records that made them well-rested for the playoffs. Not that they necessarily needed that, because they are very good teams, but it probably helped. But there was nothing along the lines of the conference schedule tempering their iron in to steel like it does in basketball.

The ACC does not 'produce' football national champions. FSU and Clemson produce their own championships, it's sheer coincidence they are based in the ACC.

You can literally say that about any conference

I think the Big 10 has 3 titles since 1980

Does the SEC produce champions? Saban has produced most of the SEC national
championships

Urban Meyer produced a couple of SEC natties and a Big 10 title