ACC teams win % in conference games as members of the ACC pic.twitter.com/TOLCenxhWz
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ACC teams win % in conference games as members of the ACC pic.twitter.com/TOLCenxhWz
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Here are the rest of the week totals that ACC teams have been ranked in the Top 10 since 1992:
FSU 253.
Clemson 135.
Virginia Tech 31.
Miami 30.
North Carolina 26.
Georgia Tech 18.
Louisville 10.
Virginia 9.
Boston College 7.
North Carolina State 2.
Wake Forest 2.
Duke 0.
Pitt 0.
Syracuse 0.
Notre Dame doesn’t count.
TOTALS OF ALL NON FSU SCHOOL: 270
TOTALS OF ALL NON FSU/CLEMSON SCHOOLS: 135
So, look at those numbers again. Like really, really look at them. Florida State has now been ranked in the Top 10 for 253 weeks! The rest of the ACC combined, excluding Clemson, has been ranked a grand total of 135 times.
If you add Clemson to the mix, these two programs represent 74 percent of all Top 10 rankings the conference has had over the last 31 years.Florida State has been ranked in the Top 5 176 times since 1992. Clemson has been ranked in the Top 5 107 times. The rest of the conference? 36. And 10 of those were Virginia Tech back in 2005.
So, let’s do that math real quick. Florida State and Clemson represent 88 percent of all Top 5 rankings in the conference since 1992. Florida State, by itself, is responsible for 55 percent of all Top 5 rankings in the ACC over the last three decades.
And, of course, Florida State has been ranked No. 1 57 times since 1992. That represents 71 percent of all No. 1 rankings in the ACC. And if you take away Clemson’s 23, it represents all of them!
Over the past three decades, no other program has been ranked No. 1 in this conference beside these two powers. And only four — North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Louisville and Miami — have been ranked in the Top 5 at all.
FSU needs to worry about beating ACC teams...π₯± pic.twitter.com/Y0WcygEnOO
— Plant The Spear (@Plantthespear1) August 3, 2023
Fact: since joining the ACC in ‘92 FSU has a winning record against EVERY ACC school except for VT (3-3 since Hokies joined in ‘05) & Pitt (1-1 since they joined in ‘13.)
— @aNOLEnymous (@aNOLEnymous) August 2, 2023
No offense, but I don’t wanna hear a damned thing about results from anyone in this conference.
#FSUFootball win - loss - tie in the
— πSPEARATICS BY SSN π (@SPEARATICS) August 3, 2023
ACC 244-125-4, FSU entered the ACC in 1992 Clemson ACC record 340-149-6 Clemson entered 1953. FSU leads the series 20-15 with longest winning streak 11.Clemson holds the current streak at 7 these two have carried the ACC its entire existence
Hey UNC & whining fans Let's talk about a Decade: π
— TraditioNole (@TraditiNole) August 5, 2023
1- 2022 9-5
2- 2021 6-7
3- 2020 8-4
4- 2019 7-6
5- 2018 2-9
6- 2017 3-9
7- 2016 8-5
8- 2015 11-3
9- 2014 6-7
10- 2013 7-6
67-61
2-6 bowl record
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#ACC all time rankings. Should your team be ranked higher or is it just plain stats? pic.twitter.com/e9E9PhKFI6
— BattleStats (@BattleStatscfb) August 12, 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida_State_Seminoles_football_seasons
| Bobby Bowden (ACC) (1992–2009) | ||||||||
| 1992 | Bobby Bowden | 11–1 | 8–0 | 1st | W Orange† | 2 | 2 | |
| 1993 | Bobby Bowden | 12–1 | 8–0 | 1st | W Orange† | 1 | 1 | |
| 1994 | Bobby Bowden | 10–1–1 | 8–0 | 1st | W Sugar† | 5 | 4 | |
| 1995 | Bobby Bowden | 10–2 | 7–1 | 1st | W Orange† | 5 | 4 | |
| 1996 | Bobby Bowden | 11–1 | 8–0 | 1st | L Sugar† | 3 | 3 | |
| 1997 | Bobby Bowden | 11–1 | 8–0 | 1st | W Sugar† | 3 | 3 | |
| 1998 | Bobby Bowden | 11–2 | 7–1 | 1st | L Fiesta† | 3 | 3 | |
| 1999 | Bobby Bowden | 12–0 | 8–0 | 1st | W Sugar† | 1 | 1 | |
| 2000 | Bobby Bowden | 11–2 | 8–0 | 1st | L Orange† | 4 | 5 | |
| 2001 | Bobby Bowden | 8–4 | 6–2 | 2nd | W Gator | 15 | 15 | |
| 2002 | Bobby Bowden | 9–5 | 7–1 | 1st | L Sugar† | 23 | 21 | |
| 2003 | Bobby Bowden | 10–3 | 7–1 | 1st | L Orange† | 10 | 11 | |
| 2004 | Bobby Bowden | 9–3 | 6–2 | 2nd | W Gator | 14 | 15 | |
| 2005 | Bobby Bowden | 8–5 | 5–3 | 1st (Atlantic) | L Orange† | 23 | 23 | |
| 2006 | Bobby Bowden | 2–6[b][2][3] | 0–5[b] | 5th (Atlantic) | W Emerald | |||
| 2007 | Bobby Bowden | 0–6[b] | 0–4[b] | 4th (Atlantic) | L Music City | |||
| 2008 | Bobby Bowden | 9–4 | 5–3 | 2nd (Atlantic) | W Champs Sports | 23 | 21 | |
| 2009 | Bobby Bowden | 7–6 | 4–4 | 3rd (Atlantic) | W Gator | |||
| Jimbo Fisher (ACC) (2010–2017) | ||||||||
| 2010 | Jimbo Fisher | 10–4 | 6–2 | 1st (Atlantic) | W Chick-fil-A | 16 | 17 | |
| 2011 | Jimbo Fisher | 9–4 | 5–3 | 2nd (Atlantic) | W Champs Sports | 23 | 23 | |
| 2012 | Jimbo Fisher | 12–2 | 7–1 | 1st (Atlantic) | W Orange† | 8 | 10 | |
| 2013 | Jimbo Fisher | 14–0 | 8–0 | 1st (Atlantic) | W BCS NCG† | 1 | 1 | |
| 2014 | Jimbo Fisher | 13–1 | 8–0 | 1st (Atlantic) | L Rose† | 6 | 5 | |
| 2015 | Jimbo Fisher | 10–3 | 6–2 | 2nd (Atlantic) | L Peach† | 14 | 14 | |
| 2016 | Jimbo Fisher | 10–3 | 5–3 | 3rd (Atlantic) | W Orange† | 8 | 8 | |
| 2017 | Jimbo Fisher Odell Haggins | 7–6[c] | 3–5 | 6th (Atlantic) | W Independence | |||
| Willie Taggart (ACC) (2018–2019) | ||||||||
| 2018 | Willie Taggart | 5–7 | 3–5 | 5th (Atlantic) | ||||
| 2019 | Willie Taggart Odell Haggins | 6–7[d] | 4–4[d] | 4th (Atlantic) | L Sun | |||
| Mike Norvell (ACC) (2020–present) | ||||||||
| 2020 | Mike Norvell | 3–6 | 2–6 | 13th | ||||
| 2021 | Mike Norvell | 5–7 | 4–4 | 5th (Atlantic) | ||||
| 2022 | Mike Norvell | 10–3 | 5–3 | 2nd (Atlantic) | W Cheez-It | 10 | 11 | |
So for those who don't know, FSU fans regularly prefer SEC officials, even if playing SEC teams because ACC officials are god awful and have a regular bias against FSU. I doubt anybody who reads that believes it, but I'm just to lazy to work to prove it. But I'll provide some links below.
But in the latest.....gaff. ACC school FSU played SEC school UF AT UF with ACC officials. In the beginning of the game UF had a critical 3rd down that was stopped with a sack by FSU safety (#1) and it was flagged.....it perhaps the worst call I've seen in football.
It won't change.....the ACC just doesn't care. It could of cost the ACC a team in the playoffs....they don't care. It's just a failed conference.
I still can’t believe this was an actual flag. One of the worst I have ever witnessed.
— FSU Plays Daily (@FSUplays) November 28, 2023
Props to Mike for losing his shit over this. Also credit to @cbfowler and @KirkHerbstreit for acknowledging how awful that call was.
ACC officials are just completely incompetent across the… pic.twitter.com/2yXBj85spA
Stats of the day…#ACC #BIG12 #BIG10 #SEC #PAC12 #ESPN pic.twitter.com/WyI6My6HSu
— Benjamin Criddle (@CriddleBenjamin) July 8, 2023
| Rank | School | #Games | All | Top36 |
| 2 | Ohio St. | 91 | 5.833M | 9.132M |
| 3 | Michigan | 81 | 4.897M | 7.376M |
| 4 | Auburn | 78 | 4.468M | 7.197M |
| 5 | Georgia | 79 | 4.69M | 7.119M |
| 6 | LSU | 80 | 4.167M | 6.636M |
| 7 | Notre Dame | 103 | 3.839M | 6.236M |
| 8 | Florida | 74 | 3.847M | 5.848M |
| 9 | Florida St. | 82 | 3.312M | 5.589M |
| 10 | Clemson | 90 | 3.258M | 5.419M |
| 11 | Michigan St. | 79 | 3.279M | 5.382M |
| 12 | Penn St. | 79 | 3.271M | 5.35M |
| 13 | Wisconsin | 77 | 3.221M | 5.303M |
| 14 | Oklahoma | 101 | 3.243M | 5.247M |
| 15 | Texas A&M | 70 | 3.414M | 5.126M |
| Rank | School | #Games | All | Top36 |
| 16 | Texas | 88 | 2.693M | 4.432M |
| 17 | Tennessee | 59 | 3.244M | 4.377M |
| 18 | Mississippi | 63 | 2.76M | 3.886M |
| 19 | Nebraska | 72 | 2.454M | 3.863M |
| 20 | Oregon | 74 | 2.521M | 3.755M |
| 21 | USC | 87 | 2.306M | 3.684M |
| 22 | Iowa | 81 | 2.158M | 3.652M |
| 23 | Miami | 76 | 2.139M | 3.62M |
| 24 | Oklahoma St. | 94 | 1.943M | 3.574M |
| 25 | Mississippi St. | 62 | 2.445M | 3.451M |
Other than winning championships, I think another good statistic to look at would be total weeks ranked in the top 25. The AP poll would be good to look at here since it has been used for so long. It would clearly show who the top brands are in college football. The more a school gets ranked, the more it gets recognized. It goes a long way in my opinion.
1.Ohio State (950) total weeks
2.Michigan (887)
3.Oklahoma (877)
4.Notre Dame (849)
5.Alabama (841)
6.USC (787)
7.Texas (748)
8.Nebraska (730)
9.Penn State (665)
10.Florida (641)
11.LSU (640)
12.Georgia (629)
13.Auburn (602)
14.Tennessee (588)
15.Florida State (560)
16.UCLA (537)
17.Miami (FL) (509)
18.Texas A&M (482)
19.Clemson (477)
20.Washington (456)
21.Arkansas (427)
22.Michigan State (416)
23.Wisconsin (412)
24.Iowa (357)
25.Oregon (335)
26.Virginia Tech (311)
27.Pittsburgh (308)
28.Georgia Tech (307)
29.West Virginia (306)
30.Colorado (305)
31.Ole Miss (304)
32.Stanford (303)
33.Arizona State (291)
34.Oklahoma State (271)
35.North Carolina (262)
36.BYU (260)
37.Missouri (255)
38.TCU (243)
39.Purdue (238)
40.Baylor (221)
41.Kansas State (218)
42.Syracuse (206)
43.Mississippi State (203)
44.Houston (201)
45.California (200)
46.Maryland (193)
47.Northwestern (188)
48.South Carolina (187)
This was posted on CSNBBS by 'OrangeDude' back in July:
Ranking based on how programs performed in college football championship games.
What follows is a point system where the two participants both got 1 point even if a loss in that game knocked them down to 3, 4, or 5 in the Final AP Poll.
For non-participants (not barred from the championship game) if they were ranked at #2 they got a point. If they were ranked #3 they had to have only 1 loss to get a point. And if they were ranked #4 they had to have zero losses to gain a point.
The results are as follows:
Alabama - 11 - SEC
Ohio State - 10 - B1G
Oklahoma - 8 - future SEC
Florida State - 7 - ACC
Clemson - 6 - ACC
Nebraska - 6 - B1G
Florida - 5 - SEC
LSU - 5 - SEC
Miami - 5 - ACC
Oregon - 5 - PAC
USC - 5 - future B1G
Auburn - 4 - SEC
Notre Dame - 4 - Independent
Georgia - 3 - SEC
Tennessee - 3 - SEC
Michigan - 2- B1G
Michigan State - 2 - B1G
Penn State - 2 - B1G
Texas - 2 - future SEC
Utah - 2 - PAC
Washington - 2 - PAC
Boise State - 1 - MWC
Cincinnati - 1 - future B12
Colorado - 1 - PAC
Oklahoma State - 1 - B12
TCU - 1 - B12
Virginia Tech - 1 - ACCSo basically there were 120 potential spots above of which 95 were actually used (I suppose it is difficult to be ranked #4 in the Final AP Poll, not take part in the championship game and have zero losses).
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The list below is each program, by conference, with more than one million fans.
Our 2022 Brandy Study analyzes the way 1,000 high school football players perceived college football programs.
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Mandel makes a bunch of terrible decisions in crunching his stats. YouTuber D1 360 has a much more effective data set comparing Big 12, Pac-10, and ACC TV performance by channel. They can NOT be simply added together. Here is a summary from D1 360's data: pic.twitter.com/b0mLr4DQCV
— Tony Altimore (@TJAltimore) July 25, 2022
Post: #1 ACC # of Games with at least 1M viewers 2013-2021A similar exercise has been done by D1-360 and I believe Andy Staples (?) for the Athletic. D1-360 was between 2012-2021 looking only at ACC, B12, and PAC. He eliminated Bowl Games (not surprising), all Conference Championship games, Games against the SEC, the B1G, and the four new members, Notre Dame, and Mirror Games supposedly because there is no way to determine who watched for which conference/teams but oddly he forgets the same can be said for any game within conference. Andy Staples did his from 2015-2021 eliminating the same games as well as throwing out 2020 altogether simply because some conferences chose not to participate fully. Outside of Bowl Games, I kept everything and I recognize that gives the ACC an advantage over the B12 and PAC due to the large number of rivalry games with the SEC and having ND committed to 5 games annually. When I get around to finishing the B12 and the PAC, still doing the 2019-2021 years for both conferences, they will have included in their totals the teams they have recently lost as well as any home, away, or neutral site games against the 5 major conferences and ND. ACC Tier 1 Team.....#Games 1M+.....Avg #Viewers* Clemson - 74 - 3.83M Florida St - 66 - 3.58M Miami - 49 - 3.03M ACC Tier 2 Louisville - 40 - 2.67M Virginia Tech - 36 - 3.05M North Carolina - 36 - 2.40M Georgia Tech - 27 - 2.69M Pittsburgh - 27 - 2.47M ACC the Rest Virginia - 24 - 2.31M Syracuse - 25 - 2.29M NC State - 23 - 2.24M Boston College - 21 - 2.21M Wake Forest - 17 - 1.94M Duke - 11 - 2.60M Now obviously the ACC isn't going to fare well against the SEC or B1G in these numbers. And it has a built in advantage to the B12 and PAC due to its many rivalry games with the SEC, the Notre Dame commitment, and even a few B1G games (though not a lot). But I thought I would share this first so we remember the ACC isn't as bad as some on these boards think. And hopefully someone could see if the new scheduling is impacted either positively or negatively with these numbers. |

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The case for: Getting the Big Ten into the state of Florida should speak for itself. Florida State is an iconic college football program that pulled in an average 2.23 million viewers from 2015-19. With FSU, the Big Ten adds the Tampa market (No. 13), the Orlando market (No. 17), Miami (No. 18), West Palm Beach (No. 39) and Jacksonville (No. 43).

If you subract Big Ten teams, SEC teams and Notre Dame from the equation, which schools from the ACC, Big 12 and Pac-12 do people watch? I charted the ones with the most one million-plus viewer games. The data help explain what could happen in realignment. https://t.co/4vZCVubXS7 pic.twitter.com/OA3CsHBtff
— Andy Staples (@Andy_Staples) July 8, 2022
Interesting rankings.
Especially interesting when even when FSU's own fan base questions it's value but during some of the most down years at FSU since the early 70s, FSU still carries water in a significant way. IMHO, the value rankings below severely under estimate FSU because A) The are measuring FSU during a severe downturn over the last 30 years B) It doesn't include TV ratings (which I find ridiculous despite his explanation of why). Still interesting to note.
Good find by ACC Football RX who noted "The top two in the ACC are pretty clear: Clemson and Florida State. Their viewership numbers are comparable to teams like OU, Penn State, Florida, Wisconsin, and Texas. Keep in mind, too, that the time period of this report includes the Willie Taggart years in Tallahassee (but not Mike Norvell's). Meanwhile, the Tigers were in the playoffs every single year from 2015 through 2019, winning two national titles and playing for two more. So don't be quick to conclude that Clemson is more valuable than FSU - they are both valuable, without a doubt."
Which college football programs bring in the most TV viewers?
I logged 1,516 regular-season games with available viewership data from the five-year span of 2015-19 (I left out 2020 for obvious reasons). That includes every televised game involving Notre Dame, BYU, Army or a team from the Big Ten, SEC, ACC, Big 12, Pac-12, AAC or Mountain West.
The numbers next to each school indicate the average number of viewers per week from 2015–19. Streaming numbers are included when available.
Conference championship games and bowl games are not included in these numbers. Games that do not have available data were counted as zero.
A couple weeks back, I took a look at which college football programs are the most valuable in this round of conference realignment.
I got a lot of positive feedback from that, and I truly believe it’s the best ranking you’ll find when it comes to evaluating each college football programs’ value to TV networks right now.
But one complaint I got from a few fans was that those ranking didn’t include TV viewership numbers. We are talking about value to TV networks, after all.
Ranking the most valuable college football programs
In this round of conference realignment, the size of a program’s fan base is the most important factor. TV networks are building out their streaming platforms, and the more people invested in the teams they carry, the more subscriptions they can sell.
So just how much is each college football program worth? Only the suits at the TV networks can truly put a number on each program’s value. But there are a few different ways to measure each program’s value relative to each other.
No single metric tells the whole story. But I averaged out each program’s ranking in four different categories to calculate a sensible ranking of the most valuable programs. Here are the categories:
Home attendance: The number of people attending each home game is one way to measure the size and passion of a fan base. College Football News calculated the five-year attendance average for every FBS school after the 2019 season.
Market size/share: In 2011, Nate Silver calculated the number of fans of each college football team using market population and survey data. The data might look a little different if redone in 2021, but it’s as strong a methodology for determining the number of fans that I’ve seen.
Valuation: After the 2019 season, the Wall Street Journal calculated how much each college football program would be worth on the open market if it could be bought and sold like a professional sports franchise. The valuations take into account revenues and expenses, along with cash-flow adjustments, risk assessments and growth projections.
Social media following: It’s not perfect, but one easy way to measure the size of each fan base is to look at how many people follow each team on social media. As TV moves over to digital, it’s valuable to look at which teams have the largest followings in the digital space.
Millions and Millions and Millions of Fans…
ESPN’s multiplatform college football coverage reaches millions of fans. For the 2012 regular-season, ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 combined to reach more than 187,000,000 viewers for game telecasts. Combining ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2 with ESPNU’s extensive lineup and the networks averaged 2,018,000 viewers over 216 regular-season contests.
ESPN’s top 5 most-viewed regular-season games:
ABC’s top 5 most-viewed regular-season games:
| ACC School | #Living | $AvgSal. | Total potential$ |
| North Carolina | 335,000 | $62,000 | $20,770,000,000 |
| Pittsburgh | 331,873 | $58,000 | $19,248,634,000 |
| Virginia Tech | 255,000 | $73,000 | $18,615,000,000 |
| Syracuse | 258,000 | $71,000 | $18,318,000,000 |
| Florida State | 360,000 | $50,000 | $18,000,000,000 |
| Virginia | 230,000 | $77,000 | $17,710,000,000 |
| Boston College | 182,736 | $93,000 | $16,994,448,000 |
| Duke | 172,120 | $93,000 | $16,007,160,000 |
| NC State | 250,000 | $61,000 | $15,250,000,000 |
| Georgia Tech | 166,000 | $88,000 | $14,608,000,000 |
| Miami | 188,620 | $67,000 | $12,637,540,000 |
| Notre Dame | 130,000 | $89,000 | $11,570,000,000 |
| Clemson | 150,000 | $64,000 | $9,600,000,000 |
| Louisville | 141,000 | $50,944 | $7,183,104,000 |
| Wake Forest | 72,452 | $75,000 | $5,433,900,000 |