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ACC: The Conference of Exciting Football!
Imagine it: an exciting conference championship matchup between two Top 15 teams. One, Virginia Tech, ranked 6th in the nation, still harbors national title aspirations. The other fields a quarterback who led the Heisman Trophy Race earlier in the year and was at one time the #1 team in all the land.
The game comes down to the wire; it’s tied up in the third and both teams are giving it everything they’ve got. This game… means everything. Riveting! Right?
Not so much.
In the ACC, even the conference’s best is apparently not all too exciting a product for your average college football fan. Gator Bowl officials are putting a brave face on it, but in the end, this one’s a laugher:
ACC officials said they are hoping for a big push before Saturday’s kickoff, working to get 65,000 seats sold — they still have between 10,000 and 15,000 tickets to go.
Hmm. Methinks there’s some very optimistic accounting going on. I’m betting they had more like… 40,000 seats remaining unsold. The camera dunna lie.
We Gator fans sat there — right there, in that very stadium! — on the west side, watching Georgia whip our beloved Boys from Old Florida. It was sold out. Not an empty seat in the place.
And that wasn’t a conference championship game. That was just another weekly SEC matchup. They all look that way.
I guess when BC can lose to a team as awful as FSU, and when Virginia Tech gets blown out 48-7 by LSU, it’s hard for the college football viewing public to take the ACC seriously.
Can’t say that I blame ‘em, really.
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I think the bigger problem with the ACC CG is the current location…
I tneeds to be moved to Charlotte where it’s in a more centralized position for the two teams’ fans to easily make the trip…
J-Ville is a little far for most people to make last minute plans for a quick weekend trip to a bowl game…
Plane tickets get pricey and it’s a little far for a weekend jaunt from Boston by car…
Moving it to Charlotte puts it less than a days drive for all ACC fans…
By gatorhippy on 12.03.07 4:11 pm
I agree - location, location, location. Jax is 550 miles from Blacksburg and 1150 miles from Boston. A quick check for non-stop flights shows… not much.
I think the ACC needs to seriously consider taking the game on campus. The conference is just too wide spread to pull off the neutral site game.
By Kevin @ Fanblogs on 12.03.07 6:53 pm
Those damn Boston fans don’t travel!!!! VT and WVU have both came and represented for the Gator Bowl. I’m surprised that hardly anybody showed up. JMS is a big stadium, but damn that’s embarrassing. Jax is a weird place for the ACC CG. It isn’t an ACC town as much as a FSU town(and concerning FSU, that population is dwindling). I’m surprised we have that game. We sell out most of the time for the Gator Bowl. Oh well..
By BurritoBrosShits on 12.03.07 10:56 pm
I’m pretty sure BC never got higher than #2 in the polls. Regardless, the location is not the issue here. BC fans don’t travel. Not to Florida, not ANYWHERE! The only way to move a December game north is to find a dome to play in. Otherwise you need to push it as far south as is reasonable.
By Keltic Gator on 12.04.07 8:55 am
hmmm…guess the fact that Florida State and Alabama in that very stadium sold out in just a regular old joe Regular season matchup doesn’t mean anything eh?
By Noleman04 on 12.04.07 4:42 pm
I think it means Alabama fans travel well. :)
By GatorPilot on 12.04.07 5:06 pm
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