ACC vs. SEC

ChrisB brought up a really good point in his comment on Boise State, the BCS, and Gettin' Hosed and I wanted to elaborate. Here is part of his comment:

"Also...the ACC teams that we all "do not want to see" beat three bowl eligible SEC teams this weekend. FSU was the only ACC team to fall to an SEC team and overall for the year the ACC has a winning record against the down SEC this year. Maybe South Carolina, Vandy, and Georgia should stay home with Auburn and make room for Clemson, Wake, and Ga Tech."

This thought had crossed my mind just recently as well and so here are the ACC vs. SEC results for the year.

Florida (11-1) beat FSU (8-4) and Miami (7-5).
Alabama (12-0) beat Clemson (7-5)
Wake Forest (7-5) beat Ole Miss (8-4) and Vanderbilt (6-6)
Georgia Tech (9-3) beat Mississippi State (4-8) and Georgia (9-3)
Duke (4-8) beat Vanderbilt

I think we can all agree that Florida and Alabama are hands down better than the rest of the SEC (although a reasonable argument could be made for Ole Miss). Removing Florida and Alabama from the results above you have the ACC at 5-0 against the SEC.

The SEC had 6 preseason AP Top 25 teams (#1 Georgia, #5 Florida, #7 LSU, #10 Auburn, #18 Tennessee, #24 Alabama). The ACC had 3 (#9 Clemson, #17 Virginia Tech, #23 Wake Forest).
Currently the AP Top 25 looks like this:

SEC: #1 Alabama, #2 Florida, #17 Georgia, #22 Ole Miss
ACC: #15 Georgia Tech, #18 Boston College

The SEC had twice as many preseason teams in the AP Top 25 than the ACC and despite a bit of switching around that fact still remains true. What is extremely interesting about all of this are these final numbers...

Overall record for the SEC: 85-59
Overall record for the ACC: 85-59
Out of conference record for the SEC: 37-11
Out of conference record for the ACC: 37-11
ACC vs. SEC: 5-3

Bowl season is gonna be very interesting...