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Expanded ACC showing improvement

By Doug Carlson
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

For years, the Atlantic Coast Conference longed to shed its image of being Florida State and the rest. Improvement comes in increments, and Year One of the expanded ACC is no exception. Though better from top-to-bottom than ever before and currently flashing three teams in the top 10, the ACC's bold post-expansion claims of zooming past the SEC, the Big 12 and the Big 10 to become the best conference in the land appears to have been a bit premature. The surprising struggles at Clemson and a bi ...

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