We're here to take up for the ACC Coastal, major college football's most bullied division.
The Coastal Division has been subject to denunciation for years inside the ACC and beyond its borders. A late-rising fan out west might awake each fall Saturday to contemptuous Twitter commentary and images of torched dumpsters to describe the Coastal’s latest letdowns.
It’s earned most of it, providing a milquetoast counterpart to an Atlantic Division that’s won five straight conference titles and houses three teams that reached the playoff and/or won a BCS bowl since 2012.