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[QUOTE="Consigliere, post: 4440677, member: 559"]
Let’s add some reality to this discussion. ACC currently has 9 bowl eligible teams and three mathematically eliminated. Georgia Tech needs to win out to get to 6 wins and closes with UNC and Georgia. Ain’t happening. Miami needs to win one more and closes with Clemson and Pitt. Toss up with Pitt? Assume no ACC team, or Notre Dame miraculously climbs into the CFP playoff.

That leaves 9 or 10 teams to fill the bowl slots affiliated with the conference. Clemson / UNC winner goes to the Orange Bowl. Norte Dame cannot steal that one. Their are 9 Tier One bowls that will be filled first: In order of payout: Holiday, ReliaQuest, Cheez-It, Gator, Duke’s Mayo, Sun, Pinstripe, Military and Fenway. Notre Dame gets one of those. That leaves 8 or 9 teams for eight Tier one slots before the Tier 2 bowls (Gasparilla, First Responder and Birmingham) kick in. Impossible to fill all three and if Miami loses out, ACC only fills one.

If we win both remaining games we will likely end up in one of the middle Tier 1 bowls. If we win one, we likely drop down to Pinstripe. The only way we get to Tier 2 is if we lose out and Miami gets to 6 wins. That probably puts us in the mix with Miami and Louisville to be relegated to either Fenway, Military or Tier 2 bowl (Gasparilla?)
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