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It's hard to make an argument that the Big Ten isn't the best conference in college football after Michigan, Ohio State and Indiana have won the last three College Football Playoff national championships.
Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi is willing to go there.
During an appearance on 680 The Fan on Friday, Narduzzi made a bold claim, arguing the ACC was a "better" conference than the Big Ten.
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“This conference is as good as any conference in the country,” Narduzzi said, via a transcription from On3. “I don’t care what you make and all that. I don’t care about how many resources you have and all that baloney. Talk about different conferences and what they make… Coming from Michigan State, spent eight seasons there.
"Coming to Pitt in 2015, I said it then, I said it now. After about two years in the league, this conference is better — it’s better than the Big Ten. It’s got more skill… I’ve said that for years and I’m going to stick to my guns.”
Narduzzi's comments were ironic, as he has struggled against Big Ten teams during his time with the Panthers. He's 1-6 against Big Ten teams with Pitt, with his lone win against the conference coming in 2016 against Penn State in a 42-39 score. Since then, he's lost three games to the Nittany Lions, one to Iowa, one to Northwestern, and one to Michigan State.
While his record against the Big Ten with Pitt has been suboptimal, Narduzzi noted that the ACC as a whole has a winning record against the SEC and Big Ten.
“You look at our (the ACC's) record,” Narduzzi said. “You look at our record in bowl games against the SEC and Big Ten. You look at our record in the regular season. We don’t have a losing record, we have a winning record against those teams.”
Narduzzi was trying to stick up for the ACC, a conference that has struggled to get multiple schools into the 12-team College Football Playoff format the last two years. But outside of Miami last season, the ACC hasn't had a true program that could contend for the national championship in nearly half a decade.
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