Right here is how chaotic the race for the ACC Championship Recreation, and by extension, an opportunity to play for the Faculty Soccer Playoff, presently is.
It appears unattainable, however it isn’t. It was all made doable by No. 14 Virginia and No. 15 Louisville each shedding on Saturday — and each at residence — to unranked ACC opponents.
Virginia dropped a 16-9 determination to Wake Forest, whereas Louisville misplaced a walk-off extra time sport to California.
These outcomes are seismic shifts for the convention — and doubtlessly the Faculty Soccer Playoff discipline.
ACC playoff spot is totally up for grabs
With Saturday’s outcomes, there at the moment are 5 groups within the ACC that each one have precisely one loss in convention play: Georgia Tech, Virginia, Pitt, SMU and Duke.
Although Duke is barely 5-4 total, its 5-1 document in convention play retains it very a lot alive on this race. And with remaining video games in opposition to Virginia, North Carolina and Wake Forest, there may be undoubtedly a path for the Blue Devils to play their method into this. None of these video games is unwinnable.
Louisville and No. 18 Miami (an enormous winner over Syracuse on Saturday) sit simply behind with two losses every within the convention and wish a whole lot of assist the remainder of the best way.
The following three weeks are going to be particularly intense as a result of a whole lot of these groups play one another, which is able to assist kind out the sphere.
Probably the most consequential video games remaining are Virginia visiting Duke on Nov. 15, Pitt visiting Georgia Tech on Nov. 22, Louisville visiting SMU that very same weekend and Miami visiting Pitt on Nov. 29.
All of these video games are going to play a serious function in figuring out who performs in Charlotte in early December for the convention championship.
We all know the ACC goes to get a workforce within the 12-team discipline. It should nearly definitely solely be a one-team league. However anyone shall be there. It’s only a fully wide-open race, and anyone’s guess as to which workforce that’s going to be.
They’ll all have an opportunity to find out that over the following three weeks by beating up on one another. Are they one of the best groups within the nation and taking part in on the highest stage? No. However there may not be a extra intriguing convention when it comes to volatility and the way unpredictable the entire thing goes to be.
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