Game of the Week: UNC @ Va. Tech (12/19/2004)

Heels Give Hokies a Rude Welcome to the ACC

I wasn’t alive when South Carolina played in the ACC. And the 7-team ACC of the 1970s seemed pretty intense, too. But my favorite version of the league was the 8-team configuration of the 1980s with UNC, Duke, NC State, Wake Forest, Virginia, Clemson, Maryland, and Georgia Tech. If you twist my arm hard enough, I might even concede that the 9-team ACC (…