While Clemson remains the obvious class of the Atlantic, the pecking order in the middle of the division has rarely been murkier than it is now. And that’s not because everybody else is imploding at the specter of having to deal with the Tigers.
Six of the division’s seven teams rank in the pre-season S&P+ top-50 (Syracuse being the exception), with four of them bunched within 19 spots of each other. NC State, BC, Wake Forest, and Louisville look so similar in terms of overall quality that there will probably be plenty of close games played between them.