Quote:Since it’s an Olympic year and the last year before another Atlantic Coast Conference expansion in 2013 when Syracuse and Pittsburgh are admitted, it seemed appropriate to consider a view of the football standings in the ACC, compiled in each of the seven years of division play.

The first thing you notice is what you already knew, that Virginia Tech, the school that the ACC originally wanted to leave out of expansion plans, has dominated the conference in football. If they renamed the Championship Game the Hokie Invitational people outside of Blacksburg, Va., would howl, but it would make sense.