Phil Steele's annual college football tome — all 328 pages in single-space, six-point type — is available for consumption. If you don't want to leave your house, you can order one at PhilSteele.com.

The magazine maestro talked with ACC Now on Saturday about his ACC predictions and his choice to win the BCS national title.

ACC predictions — Atlantic: Clemson; Coastal: Virginia Tech. Overall champ: Clemson

BCS champ: Florida

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Doneal Mack got lost in a crowded Memphis backcourt during the Tigers' Final Four season. The junior from Charlotte will finish his career elsewhere.

Mack's father said his son will leave Memphis and transfer to another Division I school. Greg Mack listed Clemson and Wake Forest as possible options for his son, who averaged 6.9 points in 12.5 minutes per game for the backcourt-heavy Tigers, who lost in the national title game to Kansas.

Mack originally committed to Florida out of high school but was denied admission.

Florida won back-to-back national titles in basketball and then missed the NCAA Tournament in 2008. Naturally the Gators responded as any champion would — by raiding Clemson's coaching staff.

Florida has hired Clemson's Shaka Smart, according to The State. Smart, who's just 31, was Clemson's recruiting coordinator for the past two seasons. He joins former Clemson head coach Larry Shyatt on Billy Donovan's staff.

That's a lot of Clemson blood on one staff.

It's "Kick a Linebacker Off the Team" Season in the ACC and Clemson followed suit — joining UNC and Florida State — by bidding adieu to junior middle linebacker Cortney Vincent.

Vincent had already been suspended from spring practice for academic and legal issues (namely a DUI from December) but Tigers coach Tommy Bowden made it official on Monday.

Vincent's exit means Clemson will pursue its first ACC title since 1991 with three new starting linebackers.

• Wake Forest and N.C. State
• Boston College and Clemson
• Florida State and Maryland
• Va. Tech and UVa
• Miami and Ga. Tech
• UNC and Duke

If you thought the ACC was bad last year, or the year before, or the year before ... brace yourself for 2008. The league could be even worse, if that's possible.

Attrition, either through the NFL Draft, graduation or suspensions, has hit the division champs, Boston College and Virginia Tech, hard.

Traditional powers Miami and Florida State, who went a combined 12-13 in 2007, are no longer reloading but out-and-out rebuilding. FSU is doing so with the handicap of an academic scandal.

The ACC, and Coastal Division in particular, is so bad that Duke could equal its combined win total since 2004 before October ends.

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2007 record: 11-3, 6-2 (Atlantic Division champs)

Returning starters: Offense 6, Defense 6.

Quarterback?: No. Matt Ryan was the third overall pick (Atlanta) in the NFL Draft.

Avoid in the ACC: UVa, Duke, Miami

Coaching situation: Jeff Jagodzinski enters Year 2 but really he's starting over without Ryan, the ACC Player of the Year. The cupboard is not completely bare but the real world, and work, begins for Jags.

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When the ACC spring meetings begin Sunday at Amelia Island, Fla., discussions of expanded conference scheduling will not be limited to basketball.

Also under review will be the possibility of going to a nine-game league format in football. Under the current system, ACC teams play eight conference games. Each school in the two six-team divisions — Atlantic and Coastal — play the other five division members plus three from the opposite division.

Should a nine-game format be adopted, each team would play four games against teams from the opposite division.

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Thursday, Aug. 28
Jacksonville State @ Ga. Tech
Charleston Southern @ Miami
N.C. State @ South Carolina
Wake Forest @ Baylor

Saturday, Aug. 30
Boston College vs. Kent State (@ Cleveland)
Alabama vs. Clemson (@ Atlanta)
James Madison @ Duke
Delaware @ Maryland
McNeese State @ UNC
USC @ UVa
Va. Tech vs. East Carolina (@ Charlotte)

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North Carolina will play Michigan State at Detroit's Ford Field and Duke will play at Purdue in next season's ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

As expected, N.C. State will be left out of the made-for-TV event for the first time because it finished last in league play. The Big Ten features 11 teams; the ACC has a dozen.

The schedule:

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Or to be more exact, baseball uniforms and how one of his players, Kyle Parker, looks in a baseball uniform.

The Clemson football coach told cutigers.com:

"He’s really good looking. If I was a girl, I’d be very interested in him. He wears those tight pants. When you wear loose stuff, you can’t tell the definition of a guy’s body. In baseball, everything’s tight and you can tell he’s very well put together.”

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UNC's the last ACC team standing.

The Pac-10 and Big East lead the Sweet 16 participants with three each. The Big East went an impressive 7-1 in the first round but 3-4 in the second.

The conference breakdown (through two rounds):

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Scottie Reynolds and Corey Fisher kept Tampa’s upset streak intact.

Reynolds scored 21 points, Fisher added 17 and the 12th-seeded Wildcats gave this NCAA tournament pod its fourth upset in as many games with a 75-69 victory over No. 5 seed Clemson in the first round of the Midwest Region on Friday night.

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Today's topic: Joe and Tudor break down their bracket and ask how long the ACC teams will remain in the tournament.

Staff video: Rob Roberts, Tim Lee, Joe Giglio and Caulton Tudor.

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Coach: Jay Wright.
Record: 20-12, 9-9 in Big East. Won six of its last nine conference games.
Big East Tournament: Lost to Georgetown 82-63 in second round.
Good win: beat Pittsburgh 64-63.
Bad loss: lost at St. Joseph's 77-55.
Noted: Lost to N.C. State 69-68 in in the championship game of the Old Spice Classic in Orlando, Fla.

Clemson players speak to the media after losing to North Carolina in the final game of the ACC Tournament.