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The List: If ACC schools recruited pro wrestlers

Which pro wrestlers would ACC schools be fighting to sign for the 2013 season? We take a totally serious look at this issue.

by Bill Hanstock
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Bill Hanstock
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You just know that there are wrestlers that college football programs would be drooling over. Here are our most educated guesses at to where they’d land within the ACC:

- John Cena: Boston College

- Triple H: Duke

- Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka: Florida State

- Big Bossman: Georgia Tech

- Val Venis: Miami

- Ric Flair: UNC

- Jeff Hardy: NC State

- Shane McMahon: Maryland

- “Rowdy” Roddy Piper: Virginia Tech

- “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase: UVA

- Hillbilly Jim: Clemson

- Akeem, the African Dream: Wake Forest

(Today’s List was created in conjunction with Tom Ziller, Robert Wheel and Spencer Hall.)

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