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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5279489, member: 173"]
It might be more complicated - but how the ACC did this year doesn't make it complicated at all.  It makes it impossible.

Don't go 3-8 vs the SEC.  And if you're going to go 3-8; don't have those three wins be against a 5-7 Auburn, 4-8 Kentucky, and 7-5 Florida - none of which move the needle.  If the three wins were out of the following four games - Clemson-Georgia, Georgia Tech - Georgia, NC State - Tennessee, Clemson South Carolina (this one really hurt ACC Credibility...) - how the ACC is viewed would be dramatically different.  If Clemson could have been competitive against Georgia and beaten South Carolina, we would be in much better position right now...but they didn't.

In general, the ACC plays the SEC more than the Big Ten - ACC went 3-2 vs the Big Ten but none of those games were needle movers.  The ACC needs to be closer to .500 vs the SEC, AND win games which are matchups of the best teams in both conferences more than the zero wins we got this year.  Because without that, it will remain uncomplicated - the ACC will, justifiably, get very little respect. And no amount of savvy PR can fix that.
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