The ACC as a whole is god-awful this season. All seem to feature poor defenses. Rounding the corner on mid-season, it looks more like a poor facsimile of the shoot-'em-up arcade that the Big12 normally represents. Right now it's setting up to be Wake versus Pitt in the championship game, which is mind-bending to think about. Two solid yet unspectacular middling teams in recent years, one of which (Wake) struggled to manage 3 wins in each of the current coach's first two seasons, which wasn't all that long ago. ND really missed a good opportunity with this schedule, which is turning out to be much softer than projected from the outset.