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And yes, I include Miami in tier one. A lot of people might push back on that. Well, Miami can

make the playoff, but can they win the national championship?

I am a believer.

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those of you that have already done that so far this year. Numbers are up tremendously,

especially in an offseason when it's been a little quiet, frankly, compared to what we've had the last couple years with realignment, new playoff, new teams in different places, new coaches, coaches retiring, what have you. It's been kind of a slow off-season, and yet the numbers are up massively. So we greatly appreciate the support you've shown the show, continue to tell your friends, but we are trying to cover the sport the best way we know how by just covering it in kind of a black and white way, man, we like this, we don't like this, that's the way it goes. So we have a great show for you today. We've done our tears in the Big 12. We've done our tears in the SEC. Well, as we bring ACC media days to a close, we feel like it's appropriate to do the ACC tiers. And then, of course, next week, we'll get to the big 10 tiers. But today is for the ACC. We're going to go through how many national championship contenders, how many playoff contenders, how many teams are bullbound, how many teams are spoilers, and how many teams have work to do. It's a great league, an exciting league top the bottom and one that has a lot of

intrigue heading into 2025. So let's kick things off with Tier 1, the national championship

contenders from the ACC. We will start with the team that should be ranked top two, top three,

at worst, top four in college football

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