The Big 12 may have parity from top to bottom, the Big Ten may have a slew of CFP contenders and it may just mean more in the SEC, but it’s hard to top the ACC coming into the 2025 season when it comes to palace intrigue and the general unknown. It’s almost as though it’s a Forrest Gump league: You never know what you’re going to get on any given weekend.
That’s partially because so many teams went extra heavy into the transfer portal or simply lost so much production from last year, but also the nature of a conference that spans both coasts and has a slew of middle-tier programs who are more apt to be falling backwards than striding forward. The number of true contenders is less than what you can count on one hand but there may well be a familiar national title team that could emerge among them. The bottom of the league might turn out to be the worst among its power conference brethren by a significant margin.
