There’s one ACC team in the top 10 of the Week 8 AP Poll, the Week 8 Harris Interactive Poll, the Week 8 USA Today coaches poll, and the initial BCS standings for 2011: it’s Clemson. And the Tigers may be the Cinderella story of the 2011 college football rankings.
BCS Standings Week 8: Clemson Looks Like ACC’s Last, Best National Championship Hope
Clemson’s the lone unbeaten left in the ACC, and thus the conference’s only plausible candidate for a BCS National Championship Game berth. The Tigers will need a lot of help — losses by three of Alabama, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State, by Wisconsin, and by the winner of the Stanford-Oregon Pac-12 duel, say — but their path to New Orleans is at least plausible.
For the rest of the ACC, BCS No. 12 Virginia Tech and BCS No. 22 Georgia Tech on down, national championship dreams will have to wait at least another year.
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