We have spent much of the last 15 years winning 6-8 games every year. Every off season we do this **** and it's the definition of insanity. We hype our team up despite just winning 6 games and look at our schedule and discredit all these ACC teams and say well we should win 10-11 Games at minimum with this cupcake schedule! You know what happens? We get into close dog fights with these teams and lose to them all the time. The season ends and we are 7-5 or something similar. It's been like that for the last 14 years. Stop underestimating these ACC teams! We have done absolutely nothing in the last 14 years to be able to overlook any team that's not FCS.
I agree. Cannot underestimate any of the teams (see FIU). That said, the history of the ACC Coastal over the last ten years is a history that has one team drastically overperforming for one year and essentially coming out of nowhere to win it, and then usually fail to come close to that performance the following season.
Coastal Winners
2010: Virginia Tech (8-0) Miami goes 5-3
2011: Virginia Tech (7-1) Miami goes 3-5
2012: North Carolina (5-3) Miami goes 5-3 and would technically win the division but forfeits due to NCAA investigation
2013: Duke (6-2) Miami goes 5-3
2014: Georgia Tech (6-2) Miami goes 3-5
2015: North Carolina (8-0) Miami goes 5-3
2016: Virginia Tech (6-2) Miami goes 5-3
2017: Miami (7-1)
2018: Pitt (6-2) Miami goes 4-4
2019: Virginia (5-3) Miami goes 4-4
Meanwhile on the other side, it's just Florida State and Clemson, with the Tigers winning the Atlantic division the last five years.