<p>A non-academic article about the ACC. </p>
<p>The FSU-Miami football game was ABC's highest-rated TV game last year.</p>
<p>Even more than USC-Texas?</p>
<p>It said ABC in the article, was the NC on ABC? I don't recall.</p>
<p>I found this:</p>
<p>Most BCS Games</p>
<p>Florida St. - 6
Miami (Fla.) - 4
Oklahoma - 4
Ohio St. - 4
Southern California - 4
Florida - 3
Michigan - 3</p>
<p>The national championship network was ABC as cited here:</p>
<p>I would not have figured FSU-Miami would be rated higher, but apparently the early-season game generated a lot of viewers.</p>
<p>So, FSU-Miami was higher rated than USC-Texas.</p>
<p>Here's the BCS tv ratings: <a href="http://www.bcsfootball.org/index2.cfm?page=tvratings05%5B/url%5D">http://www.bcsfootball.org/index2.cfm?page=tvratings05</a></p>
<p>It appears the newspaper is incorrect. Texas-USC was the highest rated game on ABC since 1987.</p>
<p>The ACC will eventually need to further upgrade its football by replacing Duke with either West Virginia or Syracuse or Pittsburgh since it is clear that Duke cannot ,with its current academics and enrollment size,compete at Division 1A. This will increase the ACC's football prestige and its visilbility but will diminish the ACC's academics and tradition as it will lose a strong Private mid-size university. But football now wags the dog in the ACC, not basketball.</p>
<p>The day the ACC drops Duke, and it's basketball team, will be the same day the SEC drops the University of Alabama and it's football team.</p>
<p>I suspect the ACC is more about balance between academics, basketball, football and other activities.</p>
<p>The Balance you are talking about is $$$$$$$$=Football.</p>
<p>This is not your older brother's ACC anymore.</p>
<p>parent2-I think you just gave the ACC an idea. They would love to have Alabama, and get fully up to and over SEC standards quicker.</p>
<p>Which vaunted SEC standards? </p>
<p>Doesn't basketball in the ACC earn more money than football?</p>
<p>no, a lot less.</p>
<p>I think where pizza eater is going is that while the ACC brings in lots of basketball revenue and Duke is the marquee team, the amount of basketball money is not enough to offset what willl rapidly be the total (not partial or diminshed)lack of proceeds from a visit to a half empty Duke Staidum from the BCs. Florida States, and Miamis of the world. If Duke was a respectable 3-8 type of team then it could hold its own in keeping the gate proceeds and TV money of ACC football whole. As things are going now, Duke is just there to be squished like a banana under a MAC truck, meaning that one-sixth of the entire ACC football schedule loses its economic viability.</p>
<p>Well, if the Eater of Pizza is worried about that, I suggest he simply get another slice and sleep soundly.</p>
<p>Duke more than makes up for any football shortfalls with it's strength in basketball. Also, the academic credentials of Duke enhance the whole of the ACC, leading to better academics overall, through the halo of Duke at least. This is another planned benefit. </p>
<p>The ACC is a synergistic system for a reason - the (albeit hopefully temporary) weakness of one is offset by the strength of another league member. All conferences hope to have this; perhaps the ACC is more successful. </p>
<p>In this manner, the group thrives, despite the inevitable poor seasons, coaching changes, bad luck and so on. The risk of weakness is distributed across the diversity of the group (so is the strength, for the same reason).</p>
<p>Look at Florida State in football - FSU creamed everyone for years in the ACC and this was expected. That does not happen today, and the ACC is stronger overall as a result. The ACC is probably one of the strongest overall conferences in major sports. This was no accident.</p>
<p>I guess the ratings are fine and all. Miami and FSU haven’t exactly held up there end of the bargain in terms of producing BCS championship caliber football teams.</p>
<p>I look forward to beating FSU for the fourth consecutive time this year parent2noles :)</p>
<p>I think FSU will hold up its end of the bargain vis a vis the ACC. </p>
<p>Wake loses this year. Get your excuses in order. ;)</p>