ACC Football: 5 moves that would spark change in 2019

ACC Football has fallen on hard times in 2018. Here are five moves that could spark a change for the conference in 2019.

During the summer of 2017, I wrote a piece titled “ACC Football: How did the ACC become the nation’s premier football conference?” I was painfully wrong after seeing Jimbo Fisher run off to College Station during a bad season at Florida State, Miami collapsing down the stretch and mediocrity or worse from half of the conference. Lamar Jackson won the Heisman Trophy in 2016, but struggled to an 8-5 season while leading the Cardinals.

The Seminoles replaced Fisher, the 2013 National Championship-winning head coach, with Oregon’s Willie Taggart. He has been a fast riser but heading into Week 7 of the 2018 college football season, the Seminoles might miss the postseason unless they pull of an amazing run.

Clemson is still undefeated and they’re the only program truly worthy of elite status. The bottom of the conference is cavernous with Georgia Tech, Louisville and North Carolina struggling with losses against Group of Five programs this season.

The football side of the ACC needs a spark and it could come from five moves. One spark would be the ACC Network finally existing as an actual network. There are a couple of coaching changes necessary to reboot the conference after losing Fisher. Other moves include players on the market either leaving high school or serving as a graduate transfer.

Here are five moves that could spark the ACC as a football conference for 2019.