They are even marketed by the media as some hybrid between the NFL and the rest of college football.  And they really showed it against the ACC...again.

The ACC, on the other hand, thought they were going to take the best of the Big East and fold it in to their conference and be a contender.  Instead, they apparently have gone backwards.

Because of geographic proximity, no league plays the SEC as many times as the ACC teams do.  That's bad news for them.  If you were the commissioner of the ACC or one of the schools' presidents, you could not have envisioned a worse scenario as two 7-5 SEC teams beat the two teams that are playing in the ACC's conference title game.  That's just embarrassing..