The ACC did the wave-making in the last round of major college conference expansion. If the Big Ten adds a 12th team, an option the conference announced last week it would explore, then the ACC could be the one feeling the ripple effect.
The Big Ten, which apparently wants to get into the conference championship game business, has already been shot down by Notre Dame (again). Three Big East teams are allegedly next on the radar: Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Rutgers.
DETROIT — As North Carolina prepares for the NCAA title game against Michigan State on Monday, many North Carolina basketball fans no doubt recall an unsavory reversal of fortune with a Big Ten opponent in the 1981 national championship game.
The Tar Heels that season lost to Indiana in the final game at Philadelphia, 63-50. It was the same day — March 30, 1981 — that President Ronald Reagan was shot on a Washington street by John Hinckley Jr.
Bowl games in red
Florida 45, Florida State 14
Florida 26, Miami 3
South Carolina 34, N.C. State 0
Alabama 34, Clemson 10
Vanderbilt 16, BC 14
LSU 38, Georgia Tech 3
