When the league first expanded to 12 teams in 2004, annexing former Big East powerhouse Miami, along with contenders Boston College and Virginia Tech, the ACC was expected to challenge the SEC for conference supremacy. Now, with quite the large sample size to examine, the new look ACC has been a perennial underachiever, still nowhere near the upper echelon of BCS relevance. Sure, the ACC winner still takes advantage of the conference’s automatic bid, but not since Florida State’s 1999 National Championship has an ACC housed team finished the year atop the rankings.In fact, championship game or no championship game, were all fair in love and football, the ACC probably doesn’t deserve its automatic bid, as it has done next to nothing in its twelve BCS appearances. Sporting a paltry record of 2-10, winning at a .167 clip, the ACC has by far the worst such record of any conference to ever qualify for a BCS game. Among major conferences, the Big 10 is the only other group with a sub-.500 record, but with 10 wins and 11 losses, the ACC is still stuck in the cellar by a long shot. The Moutain West and Western Athletic conference have even managed to each tie the ACC’s win total, despite having only a combined 6 appearances. The Hokies and Seminoles are the only two ACC squads to actually win a BCS game (including the aforementioned National Championship win by FSU), with Virginia Tech finally ending the conferences 10-year drought with a 2009 Orange Bowl victory over the Cincinnati Bearcats. Fortunately, TV deals and the powers that be would preclude any serious talk of dropping the ACC from BCS considerations. Still, it would be nice to revert to a time when ACC competition was universally respected, and teams from other conferences looked forward to matchups with ACC opponents, not because the victory was guaranteed but because a good game was sure to followWith the former juggernauts Florida State and Miami mired in mediocrity over the past few seasons, it may be time to wonder, will the ACC ever live up to its initial expansion hype or get another taste of its former glory?