Yes, ACC basketball is struggling. Struggled last year too when it came to poll standings, national championship contenders, NCAA tournament representation and success.
And yet ACC football has fared even worse this season, defining mediocrity in 2021.
Tacit recognition of this state of affairs is found in the fact that 4 of 15 head coaches who worked ACC sidelines this year are gone. No league squad finished in the top 15 in the final AP poll, a state of affairs that recalls the ACC’s pre-Florida State days.
The ACC’s prospects have drooped to such an extent, for the first time since the College Football Playoff was instituted in 2014 not even its best team qualified to compete for the national championship.