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The outlook for the 2025 ACC football season is either easy to figure out or extremely difficult, depending on your position in the conference. This is a conference that is in Year 2 of its 17-team era, coming off of a season that it joined the Big Ten and SEC as the only conferences to put multiple teams in the College Football Playoff.
The ACC, at least on paper here in late March, has tiers that can help sort out the overall landscape in the league. If we are to use the way-too-early power ratings view of things, there are four teams at the top of the conference expected to compete for the two spots in the conference championship game. Those teams — Clemson, Miami, SMU and Louisville — would all be notable, if not significant favorites, on a neutral field against anyone else in the conference. On the other end of the spectrum, there are three teams whose combination of returning production and recent results suggest that they would be fighting an uphill battle against most everyone else in the conference except when they play each other.
Then there’s the bloated middle, where as many as 10 teams in the ACC can say that they would be neither a favorite nor an underdog of a touchdown or more on a neutral field against any of the other teams in this tier. For the purposes of making win total picks, that means as much as half of a team’s conference schedule could be filled with “toss-up” games that are often decided by a winning play or losing mistake in the thick of a Saturday afternoon in the fall.
The oddsmakers seem to view the conference the same way. There are only four teams that have win totals at FanDuel Sportsbook above 7.5 wins. Meanwhile there are 11 teams whose win totals fall between 5.5 wins and 7.5 wins with varying…
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Author : Chip Patterson
Publish date : 2025-03-28 18:53:00
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