If you are an ACC football coach and you can’t use the 2013 season to help you in recruiting nothing will. A team in the national game with Florida State. There’s a second ACC team in Clemson in a BCS game. 3 times this year, Gameday was at an ACC stadium. What more could John Swofford want?
How about pretty much leading the country in major college football awards. Actually for the football conference that’s been much maligned in year’s past, it was a rather remarkable haul. Not to mention that the ACC had 2 of the top 4 Heisman vote getters in winner Jameis Winston and 4th place finisher Boston College’s Andre Williams.
Heisman Trophy – Florida State’s Jameis Winston
Walter Camp Award – Florida State’s Jameis Winston
Davey O’Brien – Florida State’s Jameis Winston
Doak Walker – Boston College’s Andre Williams
Bednarik – Pittsburgh’s Aaron Donald
Outland – Pittsburgh’s Aaron Dondal
Lou Groza – Florida State’s Roberto Aguayo
That’s an astonishing 7 out of the 11 biggest college football awards given out this year.
The conference ended up with 9 of the 24 All-Americans on the ESPN All-America list. That’s a 38% of the the All-American team. Maybe you could say well they had 14 teams in the ACC, but so did the SEC. The USAToday All American team had 13 ACC players. From that article…
With 13 selections – five from FSU – the ACC has the most representatives of any FBS conference
Individually it was impressive year for ACC Football players.
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Florida State’s National Title caps satisfying past 13 months for ACC Football. » All Sports Discussion says:
January 7, 2014 at 6:50 pm (UTC -5)
[…] Finally the ACC had a team in the national title game. Clemson was in the Orange Bowl, and eleven ACC teams made a bowl game. Prior to the bowl games, the ACC nearly made a clean sweep of every major individual college football award. […]
Florida State’s National Title caps satisfying past 13 months for ACC Football. | Sports Blog United says:
January 7, 2014 at 7:45 pm (UTC -5)
[…] Finally the ACC had a team in the national title game. Clemson was in the Orange Bowl, and eleven ACC teams made a bowl game. Prior to the bowl games, the ACC nearly made a clean sweep of every major individual college football award. […]