Will Florida State and Miami finally meet for the ACC Championship in 2015?

Will this finally be the year that Florida State and Miami clash for the ACC Championship in football?

The Florida State Seminoles and Miami Hurricanes is one of the fiercest rivalries in all of college football. Dating back to 1951, these two storied programs have gone out nearly year after year and battled each other with some bad intentions in mind. These battles have given us some of the most memorable moments in the history of the game, including the infamous wide rights and even the wide left of 2002.

Florida State and Miami have had some battles that ended up having a significant impact on the national championship picture, however there’s one thing they have not battled for yet — the ACC Championship.

Back in 2005 the ACC, now having 12 members with the addition of Boston College, were able to divide the conference into two divisions, the Atlantic and the Coastal. When the divisions were announced and you saw where all the teams stood, it was clearly evident that something had been done on purpose: Florida State and Miami were split into separate divisions, Miami in the Coastal and Florida State in the Atlantic.

While it would never be admitted to, this was done with the impression that more often than not, Florida State and Miami would make it to the conference title game and make the ACC tremendous amounts of money. Whenever these two get on the field with one another, it has a heavyweight fight feel. So, when you add an actual championship on the line with not only big bowl, but sometimes national championship aspirations on the line, the ACC couldn’t lose.

Well, in a way they have. The inadvertent plan hasn’t worked out as they all thought it might. Since the inception of the ACC Championship Game in 2005, Florida State has more or less lived up to their end of the bargain, appearing in five of the contests and winning four, including the last three. Miami, on the other hand, has been the ones falling short. Actually, they’ve more than fallen short, not even making an appearance in the title game.

Now it should absolutely be noted that Miami would have grabbed the Coastal Division title in 2012, but due to self-imposed sanctions, they were not eligible to compete in the game and Georgia Tech took on Florida State instead.

Still, 10 years later, people wonder whether or not this will finally be the year we see the Seminoles and Hurricanes battle for a second time on the season, this time with the ACC title on the line. So, will 2015 finally be that season? Let’s have a look at some of the factors for each team and this quest coming up this season.

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