Why ACC Football should (jokingly) consider UConn as new member

ACC Football has looked of late like a group that is the Clemson Tigers and the rest of the dwarfs, so why not add a team that went 1-11 last season?

Across the world of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the league seems to have more the most part 15 schools playing in a majority of the sports with one big exception – the ACC football world is still with 14 teams despite the league adding Notre Dame a few seasons ago in every sport the Fighting Irish play except that one.

We won’t get into how the conference caved to the men from South Bend on that one (we’ve got a whole summer left to do that) because there is a simple way to solve this whole problem – and it involves the plan from those in charge at the ACC to bring in great basketball programs that don’t add all that much for the most part to football.

Ladies and gentlemen, fresh off their seven wins combined over the last three seasons…put your hands together for what should be the 15th playing school in the world of ACC football for the Florida State Seminoles and everyone else to play: the UConn Huskies!

Florida State Seminoles Football

(Yes, I’m being serious on this one…okay, not really since it would be insane and wouldn’t work with uneven divisions but just hear me out on this one.)

Okay, so on paper I get that this is nowhere even close to the same powerhouse move that it would be if the ACC football powers had some courage to have forced Notre Dame to join in an all-or-nothing type deal. With that being said, this is not like the Huskies are a joke in the football world…if you put last season’s 1-11 record aside for a moment.

Let us not forget that this was a team who less than a decade ago was

losing by 28 points to

taking on Oklahoma in a BCS game after winning the Big East Conference when that league used to play the sport – something that just four of the current 14 teams in ACC football have done while members of the conference.

If this was to take place, the move would be beyond simple: kick Louisville over to the Big 12 (making them one school closer to actually having 12 teams in the league) and put them in with the Atlantic Division. Look at it this way…you get less travel for games against teams like Syracuse and Boston College and built-in homecoming games for FSU and Clemson!

If you haven’t been able to tell by now, I am thoroughly being sarcastic and if those in charge of the ACC football world are even thinking about something like this they should be fired immediately.

Right now, the ACC has a dominant team in Clemson to go along with a group of teams like Miami, Virginia Tech and even our beloved FSU Seminoles that can’t decide whether they want to be good or average. The last thing needing to be added is a team that is 7-29 in their last three seasons.