ACC and SEC Football Facts - Week 4

ACC and SEC 2009 Football Facts
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Bill Trocchi has quit doing his rankings this year for some reason.

Notice the computer rankings, how can the SEC and ACC be so close? How come the ACC was ranked ahead of the SEC after week 3? Because all of the SEC's BCS non conference wins have been against opponents not ranked in the top 25. The ACC has wins against the #7 and #20 nonconference BCS+ teams.

The SEC rarely plays BCS+ out of conference games and when they do they don't play teams ranked in the top 25. It all makes sense to the non-homer. I talk to fans from all over. And everyone thinks their conference is the best. I recently have bumped into 2 Pac-10 fans (USC) and they think the Pac-10 is hard and they indicated that the SEC is not impressive.

With all that said, after week 4, the SEC has a clear upper hand over the ACC.

Big games this week for the ACC are GT vs. MSU and Miami vs. Oklahoma.
In the SEC the big out of conference BCS+ games are Arkansas vs. Texas A&M and MSU vs. GT.

Head to Head Record (ACC vs. SEC)
· SEC = 2-0. ACC = 0-2.
o 9/3/2009 - USCe defeated NCST 7-3. SEC win.
o 9/5/2009 – AL defeated VT 34-24. SEC win.

Teams in the Top 25
1. SEC = 5. ACC = 4. 9/1
2. SEC = 5. ACC = 4. 9/13
3. SEC = 5. ACC = 4. 9/20
4. SEC = 5. ACC = 3. 9/28

BCS+ Out of Conference Record
1. SEC = 3-1. ACC = 0-4. 9/1
2. SEC = 3-2. ACC = 2-5. 9/13
3. SEC = 5-2. ACC = 4-6. 9/20
4. SEC = 6-2. ACC = 5-9. 9/28

Conference Ranking by Sagarin Computer
1. SEC = 1. ACC = 4. 9/6
2. SEC = 2. ACC = 3. 9/13
3. ACC = 2. SEC = 3. 9/20
4. SEC = 2. ACC = 3. 9/28

Conference Ranking by Sports Illustrated (Bill Trocchi Vanderbilt Grad)
1. No rankings
2. SEC = 1. ACC = 6. 9/15. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/bill_trocchi/09/15/sec-tops/index.html
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