RIP ACC Football

As an Appalachian State alumnus, I imagine many would think I'd face the music, go through the "we aren't as good as we thought we were" speech, and fade away from football talk.

That's just not my style.

Yes, it is true that the Appalachian State football team took one on the chin this weekend against LSU but, few people ever really claimed that Appalachian State had a better football team than LSU. We just thought that we'd have a chance.

We were wrong.

But, we still are completely in our rights to rag on our football neighbors, the ACC.

They suck.

Wake Forest's win over Baylor was the only win for the conference against an FBS opponent. The conference did avoid an embarrassing loss to an FCS school, but barely. Maryland escaped from their Delaware game with a 14-7 win and the University of North Carolina needed two fourth quarter touchdowns to pull out a victory against McNeese State.

Dismal performances from the conference's two "top" teams, Clemson and Virginia Tech, leads me to realize that the ACC simply does not deserve any BCS recognition. They have lost their last 8 BCS Bowl games.

That is disgraceful.

The ACC has sunk so low, that in the epicenter of the ACC, North Carolina, fan bases have been forced to turn their venom on my Alma mater. Schools, particular the University of North Carolina, have dodged playing Appalachian State for years. Wake Forest, after being beaten several times, fully admits it. NC State played us in 2006, likely a result of the Appalachian Athletic Director being a former Associate Athletic Director there.

But, the University of North Carolina refuses to play Appalachian State. Anybody who follows the division knows that Appalachian State is the undisputed leader of FCS football and UNC is mediocre at best on the FBS level. But, Appalachian State is not the first king of FCS/1-AA football. There were times in which Georgia Southern and Youngstown State in Ohio ruled the division. But, the University of Georgia and Ohio State never backed down from their in state teams.

Why?

Because Georgia and Ohio State are good. UNC is not.

For further proof of the fall of UNC and the rise of Appalachian State I give you these two videos.

1. A skydiver at a Duke game. How is that relevant? He was supposed to go to the UNC game. Can you believe somebody would rather be at a Duke football game than a UNC football game? Sad



2. Appalachian football 2007 teaser.



Bottom Line? Which would you rather be a part of?