What is it about nascent conference rivalries and the immediate assumption that the teams involved are destined to meet in their league championship game, and the further gripping terror that one or both games will be devalued?
Maybe Get To The Championship Game First, Y’all
We dealt with this when the Increasingly Inaccurately-Named Big Ten split up by reminding Ohio State and Michigan partisans that none of the SEC’s traditional cross-division rivalry teams have ever met up in Atlanta in December, but for the ACC, let’s take Florida State and Miami, the presumed divisional frontrunners from the outset of the divisions themselves, and their one ZERO meetings in the ACCCG since, as our balm.
Whoever loses the first match will slip down a game to their division-mates, and in the scrummy situations we encounter so often in our current conference system, that’ll be the difference. So it’s cool, Boston College. Just get past Duke, UMass, and Wake Forest first, and then we’ll … oh. We see your point.
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