{"id":318,"date":"2017-06-27T11:31:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T15:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:09:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:09:13","slug":"2017-acc-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/2017-acc-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 ACC Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"
The ACC finished up 2016 as what was regarded as the best conference in all of FBS. Of course crowning it with a National Championship courtesy of Clemson, a Heisman thanks to Louisville, and a Contract Bowl win thanks to Florida State. This year some talent has been lost, but a lot returns. FSU, NC State, Duke, and Miami should all be improved with Louisville, VT and Pitt likely staying the same. Clemson and UNC lost 2 first round draft picks at QB and a few other draft picks. Both should still be only a step below last year. Clemson should still be a top 10-15 team and UNC a fringe top 25 team.<\/p>\n
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For each Conference we will have the Simplified Football predictions (record) with the Projected Win-Shares and rating of each team next to it. We will also have Bowl Projections for each conference.<\/p>\n
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ACC Predictions:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Atlantic<\/em><\/p>\n Team – Record (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Win-Shares (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Rating<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Coastal<\/em><\/p>\n Team – Record (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Win-Shares (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Rating<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Florida State wins the Atlantic Division outright, going undefeated in conference play. Coastal has a 3 way tie, Miami wins the tie-breaker setting up an FSU v Miami rematch in the championship game (you know what the ACC higher-ups have wanted for a decade).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Championship game – FSU wins the rematch over Miami and makes the Playoff with their only loss being to Alabama. FSU, Clemson, Miami, Louisville, VT, and NC State all finish top 25 teams.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n That makes 9 bowl teams for the ACC<\/p>\n Rose\u00a0Bowl \u2013 FSU (Playoff)<\/p>\n Orange Bowl \u2013 Clemson<\/p>\n Camping World Bowl\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Miami<\/p>\n Belk Bowl \u2013\u00a0UNC<\/p>\n PinStripe Bowl \u2013\u00a0Louisville<\/p>\n Sun Bowl \u2013\u00a0NC State<\/p>\n Military Bowl – Duke<\/p>\n Camping World Independence \u2013\u00a0Pittsburgh<\/p>\n Music City – Virginia Tech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The ACC finished up 2016 as what was regarded as the best conference in all of FBS. Of course crowning it with a National Championship courtesy of Clemson, a Heisman thanks to Louisville, and a Contract Bowl win thanks to Florida State. This year some talent has been lost, but a lot returns. FSU, NC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[94,96,90,92,95,97,91,64,99,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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