CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The ACC has been stuck with the nickname for years. It's "the SEC's little brother."
Because of its geographic overlap and several in-state rivalries among the teams, the ACC constantly gets compared to the big, bad SEC in football. It's the younger sibling who can't quite hang on the football field and cares more about basketball.
Kevin Scarbinsky of AL.com saddled the ACC with the "little brother" moniker in one of his columns. So did David Teel of the Daily Press and Berry Tramel of the Oklahoman.