After years, arguably decades of trying the ACC has finally caught the SEC as a football conference. What better way to compare conferences than head-to-head meetings. The ACC and SEC football teams play each other a lot during the course of a year. Going back to 2006, the ACC and SEC have met at least 8 times in head to head battles. If you can’t use head-to-head results what can you use?
Since the start of 2014, the ACC is 16-12 against the SEC. That’s 28 head-to-head to battles, and the ACC is beating the SEC.
Here are the results of the last 3 years pulled from mcubed.net of the ACC-SEC matchups ( A great site for Conference Comparisons ).
2016/11/26 Clemson 56 - South Carolina 7 W 2016/11/26 Louisville 38 - Kentucky 41 L 2016/11/26 Georgia Tech 28 - Georgia 27 W 2016/11/26 Florida St 31 - Florida 13 W 2016/09/17 Georgia Tech 38 - Vanderbilt 7 W 2016/09/10 Virginia Tech 24 - Tennessee 45 L 2016/09/05 Florida St 45 - Mississippi 34 W 2016/09/03 North Carolina 24 - Georgia 33 L 2016/09/03 Clemson 19 - Auburn 13 W 2016/01/11 Clemson 40 - Alabama 45 L !! CFP Championship !! 2015/12/30 Louisville 27 - Texas A&M 21 W !! Music City Bowl !! 2015/12/30 North Carolina St 28 - Mississippi St 51 L !! Belk Bowl !! 2015/11/28 Louisville 38 - Kentucky 24 W 2015/11/28 Georgia Tech 7 - Georgia 13 L 2015/11/28 Florida St 27 - Florida 2 W 2015/11/28 Clemson 37 - South Carolina 32 W 2015/09/26 Syracuse 24 - LSU 34 L 2015/09/05 Louisville 24 - Auburn 31 L 2015/09/03 North Carolina 13 - South Carolina 17 L 2014/12/31 Georgia Tech 49 - Mississippi St 34 W !! Orange Bowl !! 2014/12/30 Louisville 14 - Georgia 37 L !! Belk Bowl !! 2014/12/27 Miami FL 21 - South Carolina 24 L !! Independence Bowl !! 2014/11/29 Clemson 35 - South Carolina 17 W 2014/11/29 Louisville 44 - Kentucky 40 W 2014/11/29 Georgia Tech 30 - Georgia 24 W OT 2014/11/29 Florida St 24 - Florida 19 W 2014/08/30 Clemson 21 - Georgia 45 L 2014/01/06 Florida St 34 - Auburn 31 W !! BCS Championship !!
Leading the ACC charge against the SEC are Clemson (4-2), FSU (5-0), Georgia Tech (4-1) who are a combined 13-3 against the SEC since 2014. The other 3 ACC wins over the SEC belong to Louisville. The Cardinals are (3-3) against the SEC.
CBSSportsline.com even ranked the ACC ahead of the SEC this year, but so did the Colley’s Bias (used during the BCS era), and Campus Insiders. What does this really mean in the end?
Well for – one outside of Alabama the SEC has dropped off as a football conference. With that decline, though the ACC has taken the opportunity to catch up with the SEC and improve considerably itself.
The ACC needs to continue this positive trend.
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