One year into the playoff system, ACC football teams still fight battle of perception

Posted May 14, 2015
Dan Radakovich and Michael Kelly should have been among friends as they met with ACC football coaches during this week’s spring meetings. Radakovich is Clemson’s athletic director, and Kelly, the chief operating officer of the College Football Playoff, is a former ACC associate commissioner. Yet the duo got interrogated as to how a team from the league could go 13-0 last season, finish as the only undefeated squad in the FBS and still wind up being seeded No. 3 in the inaugural playoff field. (Sports Illustrated)

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