If ever you desired proof that college football is a chaos machine, devouring inputs of strategy and careful planning to spit out a random-number-generated result, look no further than these next seven words that are a real thing that happened: Pitt Panthers, 2018 ACC Coastal Division champions.

Last Year: 7-7 (6-2 ACC)

At the end of September, Pitt sat at an uninspiring 2-3. A season-opening win against FCS Albany was nice enough but the memory was soon subsumed by a 51-6 dismantling at the hands of Penn State. Likewise for the start of ACC play: a well-contested 24-19 victory over Georgia Tech to kick things off, but a loss to lowly UNC-Chapel Hill close behind.