With CFP snub still stinging, Atlantic Coast Conference ponders how to boost football perceptions
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — The College Football Playoff snub of unbeaten Florida State is still a fresh wound for the entire Atlantic Coast Conference.
“To me, there’s a lot of disrespect. I think we have a heck of a conference. I look at the quality of our ACC football that we play, I just don’t think it gets the respect it deserves. Period,” Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi said Tuesday at the league’s spring meetings.
On the agenda this week at the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island is how to keep something similar from happening again in the expanded 12-team CFP, with the selection committee now responsible for divvying up seven at-large bids to go with the five highest ranked conference champions.
“Well, it’s a pretty fresh memory,” Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson said. “And I think what we want to avoid is having a school ranked 13th that should have been 10th or 11th.”