SBNation just posted their latest installment in their College Football Relegation series. They imagine a world where college football works like soccer. Each conference is made up of multiple tiers of quality. At the end of the year, the worst team in each tier gets demoted to the next tier down while the best teams in the lower tiers move up. They've carried this thought experiment through 10 years now, and it's a fascinating read. There are so many installments that it gets difficult to follow, so I have compiled the results for the ACC below:
They started in 2005, so this was the membership at the time.
Starting Membership
Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami, N.C. State, North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest
Tier 2 for the ACC is the Big East (now AAC)
2005
Drop: Duke
Add: WVU
2006
Drop: N.C. State
Add: Louisville
Sidenote: Duke gets demoted again down to Tier 3 (The Atlantic 10/Colonial). They used to be atrocious.
2007
Drop: Miami
Add: UConn
2008
Drop: Louisville
Add: Cincinnati
2009
Drop: Maryland
Add: Pitt
2010
Drop: Wake Forest
Add: N.C. State (First returning original member)
2011
Drop: Boston College
Add: Miami (Da U is Back!)
2012
Drop: UConn
Add: Lousiville
Sidenote: Duke finally makes it back to Tier 2
2013
Drop: N.C. State
Add: Duke
Add through realignment: Notre Dame & UCF
2014
Drop: UCF
Add: Boston College
Interesting to see some recent additions to the ACC pop up on this list. Amazingly, UVA never got dropped. They were always a hair less bad than someone else.
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