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BillsFever
07-23-2003, 10:47 PM
GREENSBORO, Ga. -- Try as they might, the Florida State Seminoles can’t get anyone to buy into their little underdog act.

Lose five games for the first time since the Atari era, lose one of your quarterbacks to gambling charges, lose another one for sleeping through an exam and what do you get? Being voted preseason favorite for the 12th straight ACC media day, despite practically begging for anything but.

"You’ve got to be kidding me," was Bobby Bowden’s reaction to the news. "I thought N.C. State and Maryland would be ahead of us, maybe even Virginia."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/stewart_mandel/news/2003/07/21/mandel_acc/