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          ACC divisional analysis

          Tyrod Taylor and Dyrell Roberts celebrate in the end zone. That will happen this year, too -- but the ACC can't celebrate overall until they stop beating each other up. Getty Images
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          Aug 19, 2009, 03:00 AM ET

          The ACC either has an image problem, a mediocrity problem -- or both. In 2008, the conference sent a record 10 teams to bowl games, but only four were victorious. Its most prolific offense, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, ranked only 50th nationally in total yards per game a year ago. In its four years as a 12-team "superleague," it has placed a team in the top five of the final BCS Standings only once, with the Virginia Tech Hokies finishing No. 3 in 2007.