Madison.com · Sep 16, 2015
Going for it on 4th down a weapon early on in the ACC
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — When it comes to third-down conversion rates, no league at college football's top level is off to a better start this season than the Atlantic Coast Conference.
And on fourth down, the ACC is even better.
Going for it on fourth-and-whatever has looked easy around the ACC so far in 2015, with the league's teams combining to convert 31 of 38 chances — an wildly impressive 82 percent — in those situations. No other conference even comes close to that sort of percentage on fourth downs, and the only FBS teams in America off to 5-for-5 starts in that department are Illinois and Miami.