ACC Football Power Rankings, Week 11: Clemson has sights set on playoff

Chalk held in ACC football this week. There wasn’t much drama to speak of so here are your power rankings for Week 11.

This week in As the ACC Turns we find the real contenders and flush out the pretenders.

A coach falls as his team dropped to an old foe. There’s a lot of mold on the Orange and the electricity of the Carrier Domes has withered to a spark; and that’s just to keep the lights on. The Tigers had their annual paycheck game before the “Rivalry that Really Ain’t”. Can a pseudo-rivalry game be a trap game, too?

The Good Book says, you reap what you sow and the Tar Heels kept swiping victories just to have a victory stolen from them. Steve Addazio might get his seven, Wake Forest might be the only team in the ACC that’s not four touchdowns worse than Clemson and North Carolina State is really bad at football. All this and more on As the ACC Turns.

I couldn’t tell you if Willie Taggart was the guy to fix the ills at Florida State, but two years wasn’t long enough to repair anything. Addazio’s hot seat has cooled significantly thanks to being one game from bowl eligibility and the possibility of another seven-win season at Chestnut Hill. Build that man a statue — no, seriously, do it.

Here at the ACC headquarters somewhere on Tobacco Road between the plot for David Cutcliffe’s future statue and a pop-up food truck that reads “All proceeds to go to Dave Clawson’s contract to keep him in Winston-Salem”, we know the challenges of coaching a Power Five team in the New England area. Simply, it ain’t easy. Dino Babers is experiencing that at Syracuse.

We’d love to spin a yarn about busting through at Boston College and Syracuse, but they are two of a host of ACC schools with challenges to recruiting at a high level.

With that being said on the heels of the Textile Bowl or the “Rivalry that really ain’t”, here are your ACC power rankings for Week 11.