re: Bama fans wouldn't be so insufferable if they just acknowledged the grift

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The ACC had a winning record against the SEC this year

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Match ups matter.

Here were their six wins

ACC champ (13-0, ranked 5th) defeated SEC West 3rd place team (9-3; ranked 13)
ACC champ (13-0, ranked 5th) defeated SEC East 5th place team (5-7)
ACC 6th place team (8-4, ranked 22) defeated SEC east 6th place team (4-8).
ACC last place team (4-8) defeated SEC east last place team (2-10)
ACC 7th place team (8-4) defeated SEC east 6th place team (4-8)
ACC 9th place team (7-5) defeated SEC west 4th place team (7-5)

Four of the wins were against non-bowl eligible teams with losing records. It was largely a case of teams from the top half of the ACC playing teams from the bottom of the SEC. Three of the wins were against Vandy and South Carolina. There were two quality wins.

Kentucky upsetting Louisville and Georgia naming the score against Georgia Tech during rivalry weekend hurt the ACC’s perceived strength. Florida State struggling with a bad Florida team hurt the ACC’s perceived strength. The only two SEC wins that made the ACC look good were Florida State’s win over LSU and Miami’s over A&M. But they were early season, and neither LSU nor A&M lived up to their preseason expectations, so even those wins lost a little of their luster.