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2010 ACC and SEC Football Offensives

I've always been a pretty big history guy, particularly American history. A common illustration in any good history work is the battlefield map indicating offensive movements, defensive positions, battlefield locations, and major geographic features in the area. Over the past couple years, I've made a few battlefield maps showing the movements of ACC and SEC teams throughout the Southeast because the struggle between the ACC and SEC for recruits, fans, and media revenue is a war. Here's 2008's battlefield map:

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I'll give you a quick rundown of the map. It indicates the origin of the offensive team (base of the arrow), the location of the game site (point of the arrow), who won the battle, and what conference affiliate made the attack traveled to this site. There are some cities such as Atlanta where both conferences won games so a city like Atlanta would be designated a "draw". The gray states are states in which ACC and SEC schools reside, red states are only SEC teams, and blue states are ACC only. The 2008 and proceeding 2009 maps include bowl games:

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Notice the theme? Everything sort of funnels towards Atlanta. The Georgia Dome and Georgia Tech have become focal points for SEC incursions in neutral/ACC country. It's definitely attributable to a combination of traditional rivalries and recruiting. The 2010 map shows us the same sort of action. Teams wanting a piece of the ATL pie:

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Any thoughts? Did I miss a game or two in there? What ACC-SEC game are you most interested in watching?

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That’s my top game. My tickets were reserved in February and in two weeks my 6 seats will be delivered to my house via FedEx. Neutral site game, two great defenses and a ton of NFL talent on the field. I cannot wait to get after it with the cajuns in the ATL.

Next up for me are Clemson-Auburn and UGA-GT. Clemson’s D vs Malzahn’s offense should be an epic battle. As for UGA-GT we’ll see how Grantham prepares for an offense he likely hasn’t seen on the field in two decades at least.

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by InTheBleachers on May 21, 2010 8:10 AM EDT via mobile reply actions  

Miami versus Florida

Oh, that’s right, I forgot. Florida refuses to play Miami anymore due to constant ass kicking.

by Atlanta's original team on May 21, 2010 10:24 AM EDT reply actions  

No. UF has to schedule some D-II sisters of the poor school so they can beat a team by 70 points.

by Yakub2 on May 21, 2010 10:38 AM EDT up reply actions  

Your forgot the bowl games

I’d like to see the map where the Union armies marched down and ended the rebellion.

When the weird turn pro, the going get tough.

by Misopogon on May 21, 2010 4:13 PM EDT reply actions  

Sounded cooler than "planed"

But if you prefer, the map that showed all of those northern teams from the Big Ten and Big East taking airplanes and sitting on the beach and going out for really good barbecue because we don’t get very good BBQ up here* and then beating a lot of ACC and SEC teams in bowl games.

That map.

*Except if you’re ever in Detroit, I highly hiiiiiiiighly recommend Slow’s.

When the weird turn pro, the going get tough.

by Misopogon on May 24, 2010 6:00 PM EDT up reply actions  

A Nerd Prophecy?

Pretty bold prediction for 2010.

-WE RUN THIS STATE!

by Dawginole on May 22, 2010 3:51 AM EDT reply actions  

Typical dog fan...

incapable of reading diagrams.

With no powers, comes no responsibility.

by BirdGT on May 23, 2010 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

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