ACC Tiers: Miami, Clemson, Florida St and then WHO?

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The ACC has a lot of questions heading into the 2024 season - and we are only talking ON the field. McElroy breaks down the tier’s of ACC teams and tells you why Clemson, Florida State and Miami are all at the top but not national title contenders (yet). Plus can NC State and Louisville crash the party and earn a CFP bid? Is the new guy SMU a threat or will it be Virginia Tech, and all their returning production, be the feel good story of the ACC in ‘24? | Always College Football Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I just look at the rosters in the ACC.
0:03.0	While I think one team in particular has a roster that is slightly above that of the others,
0:09.0	I don't think that one roster can adequately contend three consecutive weeks in route to a national championship.
0:22.1	Hello and welcome it's always college football. I'm your host Greg McElroy and we appreciate
0:26.3	you coming to us from from whether that's Spotify Apple Podcasts ESPN College
0:32.4	YouTube channel.
0:33.6	We appreciate you guys so much.
0:35.8	For all that you've done to help grow the show the last couple of years, our numbers are up
0:39.4	tremendously the last few years, especially from a podcast standpoint we appreciate the growth that you guys have helped us experience.
0:46.6	We have a great show for you today. We did Big Ten the other day. We're doing tears. Okay? That's how I think we need to assess the college football world moving forward.
0:56.0	We need to look at it in tears. These are championship contenders. These are teams that can make the playoff.
1:02.2	These are teams that's floor should be eight or nine wins.
1:05.2	These are teams whose ceiling should be eight or nine wins. These are teams who should make a bowl game and these are teams who if they do make a bowl game they should feel really excited
1:15.1	about what their team accomplished this year so we're gonna look at it in the six
1:19.5	tiers we're gonna break the ACC up accordingly.
1:23.2	So let's dive in the ACC and the six tiers of college football.
1:27.9	Moving forward into the tiers of the ACC,
1:31.7	we did this and had this practice already with the big 10.
1:34.0	It was really successful.
1:35.0	I had a lot of fun doing it.
1:36.0	I think this is kind of the way we have to look at
1:38.0	teams nowadays because we're going to look at tier three teams
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