The ACC hasn't been top 3 in football in the last decade. Have you been living under a rock?

Iowa State 35th in college football attendance
Cyclones rank fifth in Big 12, outpace most of ACC, Big East, Pac-12

What do you mean. They already have the best football schools on the entire Atlantic Coast that are available that have the academics to even be admitted.

I believe it's specifically about number of TV sets, although i could be wrong.

I think academics is part of it, in that it can prevent you from getting to the final round but it can't win you a spot by itself.

West Virginia has awful academics, and conferences are wary about bringing in a school that has such a poor reputation.

They've played two rivals at home. Tell me the stats at the end of the year.

Bullshit.

They've been better than the Big 10, Big 12/Pac-10, and the Big East. Swap out the big 12 and pac 10 some years as things go up and down.

Big 10 and Big East football is a joke compared to the other conferences they are always last and at no time over the past ten years been better than the ACC top-to-bottom.

SEC academics aren't terrible, but WVU is good enough to get in that conference from an academic perspective.

Texas might break both next weekend. But hey nice try.

The decision by the UT regents is odd. They declined to give UT the authority to change conferences. They basically gave them the authority to either publicly announce that UT is staying in the Big 12, or come back again later to ask for permission to leave the Big 12 if UT doesn't think they can make it work.

Again, come back at the end of the year and tell me ISU's stats.

Only Florida and Vanderbilt qualify for AAU status. The SEC isn't about academics.

The ACC is terrible at football. They are better than the Big East, but not by a lot.

Dude you are joking are just crazy.

ACC football is FSU, Miami, Va Tech, and a bunch of nobodies. FSU has been mediocre since the 90's (getting better now), Miami has been off an on since the NC game in the early 00's.

SEC, Big 12, and Big Ten have CLEARLY been better. No contest really.

So has the Pac 10.