Only one ACC team is in the top 10 of the Week 8 AP Poll and the Week 8 USA Today coaches poll: it’s unbeaten Clemson that is the conference’s last best chance at a national championship in 2011.
College Football Rankings: Clemson Is Last Remaining ACC Unbeaten In Week 8 Polls
The Tigers (No. 8 AP/No. 8 coaches) won’t be highly rated in the first BCS standings of the season if the projections for the initial BCS rankings of 2011, but they’re close enough to the head of the class to be waiting should a handful of peers flunk a test or two.
It would probably take losses by at least four teams ahead of Clemson for the Tigers to be in position to play in the BCS National Championship Game, though. And considering that Oregon might leap Clemson with a win over Stanford, it might take a loss by a team behind the Tigers, too.
But Clemson’s the only ACC team with any sort of shot. Virginia Tech (No. 14 coaches/No. 16 AP) and Georgia Tech (No. 19 coaches/No. 20 AP) are the only other ranked ACC teams, and neither is near the head of the one-loss pack.
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