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Clemson Football: ACC simply ‘means more’ than SEC this year

By Andrew Boardwine

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - DECEMBER 07: A general view of a pylon before the ACC Football Championship game between the Virginia Cavaliers and Clemson Tigers at Bank of America Stadium on December 07, 2019 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - DECEMBER 07: A general view of a pylon before the ACC Football Championship game between the Virginia Cavaliers and Clemson Tigers at Bank of America Stadium on December 07, 2019 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) /
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Clemson football has been single-handedly taking on SEC’s narrative for the last five years

The Clemson football program has been single-handedly taking on the SEC’s ‘it just means more‘ narrative for the last half-decade and the Tigers are now seemingly getting some help.

We all know that Clemson football has been conversation of thousands of SEC fans & pundits over the last five years and that the Tigers have been the envy of many programs.

The SEC has stood by its narrative that it simply ‘means more’ in their conference and that there is a certain ‘prestige’ that comes with playing in the SEC that isn’t seen in the ACC.

All of that has been on display in their SEC Championship game where we’ve seen numerous conversations over the years of how the SEC could see ‘two teams make the CFB Playoff field of four’ and how the SEC Championship game is really just another CFB Playoff game.

Well, on Saturday, Clemson football and the ACC will be proving that it ‘just means more’ than the SEC

What am I talking about? I’m talking about conference championship weekend.

For as long as we can remember, the ‘premiere’ conference championship game of the week has always been the SEC Championship game. That conference has always pit two teams with ‘legitimate playoff hopes’ against each other and it has been the game that the eyes of the nation have tuned into watch.

Well, on Saturday, that will no longer be the case.

Why? Because the ACC Championship game simply means more than the SEC Championship game.

For the first time (possibly ever), the SEC Championship won’t be the premiere game of the week. It will feature one CFB Playoff team in Alabama against another team (Florida) that we all know isn’t worthy of making the semifinals.

The ACC, on the other hand, will have the No. 2-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish against the No. 3-ranked Clemson Tigers. That’s a legitimate playoff game.

Yep, it might ‘mean more’ in the SEC, but make no mistake about it: It’s the ACC that will have the premiere title game this year and it’s the ACC that has shown more competition and depth at the top of the league this year compared to the SEC.

SEC fans don’t want to hear it and they certainly won’t accept it, but it simply means more in the ACC this year. You’ve got Clemson and Notre Dame- two teams that could easily win the SEC- competing in the ACC’s conference title and that, my friends, is something that SEC fans aren’t ready to accept.

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