The weirdness of post-expansion ACC football began in 2005, when the worst Florida State team in more than two decades, unranked and saddled with four losses, upset No. 5 Virginia Tech in the conference’s inaugural championship game.

Thus began a spell when anarchy ruled primarily in the Atlantic Division. Wake Forest and Boston College deposed FSU, and in 2008, each of the division’s six teams finished 5-3 or 4-4 in league play.

To which the Coastal Division said: Hold my beer.

Coastal chaos was born in 2012, when Georgia Tech won the division with a 5-3 mark, 6-6 overall. What followed was a parody of parity as seven different programs — the original six and newcomer Pitt — prevailed in successive years.

But for sheer lunacy and confusion in a single season, 2025 could stand alone, a

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