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5 reasons Pac-12 football will be better than ACC in 2019

By Dante Pryor

(Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
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SANTA CLARA, CA – JANUARY 07: Head coach Dabo Swinney of the Clemson Tigers celebrates his teams 44-16 win over the Alabama Crimson Tide in the CFP National Championship presented by AT&T at Levi’s Stadium on January 7, 2019 in Santa Clara, California. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
SANTA CLARA, CA – JANUARY 07: Head coach Dabo Swinney of the Clemson Tigers celebrates his teams 44-16 win over the Alabama Crimson Tide in the CFP National Championship presented by AT&T at Levi’s Stadium on January 7, 2019 in Santa Clara, California. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) /

4. Pac-12 has much better divisional balance

This is a matter of perspective. While the Pac-12 doesn’t have an elite team, it has the potential to have five really good teams — Oregon, Washington, Stanford, USC and Utah. Every team on this list has played for a conference title in the last five years.

Although it’s difficult to get in the playoff when you don’t have an elite team, it makes for good football every weekend.

Over the last nine seasons, the Atlantic division (Florida State and Clemson) has won the conference championship. Not only that, but Miami hasn’t dominated the Coastal division as it was expected to do when it joined the ACC in 2003. In fact Miami has played in only one title game (2017) since joining the ACC.

With Florida State falling on hard times the last three years, and Miami still building there doesn’t seem to be an elite second team behind Clemson. The power resides in the Pac-12 North, but the South isn’t as far behind as the ACC Coastal is from the Atlantic.

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