When it came down to the selection for the 12 teams for the College Football Playoff last month, the biggest question was who was going to be the final team in the field, Miami or Notre Dame? If it ended up being the Irish, then that would mean that the ACC was going to be shut out of the field.
You might ask why the ACC would have been shut out of the field if the conference champs automatically make the field? Well, the Hurricanes didn’t even make the ACC Championship Game. That was between Duke and Virginia. A Cavaliers win, and they would have been the ACC rep in the CFP. A Duke win, then the ACC has a real shot of being shut out because the Blue Devils were not ranked.
In typical Virginia fashion, one week after beating the worst Virginia Tech team in 20 years to get into the ACC title game, they choked away their chance to make the CFP by falling to the Blue Devils in the ACC Championship Game. They were still hungover from celebrating a rare win over Virginia Tech a week later and choked away their best shot for a long time to make the CFP. Typical Virginia…