​PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pat Narduzzi is tired of ACC football being a punching bag in the polls and seemingly everywhere else.The pathologically unfiltered Pittsburgh coach is ready for the league to start punching back.Narduzzi landed the first but likely hardly the last salvo of the season just moments after the Panthers fended off Virginia Tech on the road Friday night, a game decided on a missed 36-yard field goal as time expired.In the frantic aftermath, the longest-tenured coach in Pitt history encouraged AP Top 25 voters to “wake your (butts) up,” just as Narduzzi promised ACC commissioner Jim Phillips he would after the Panthers improved to 5-0.Narduzzi wasn’t just stumping for Pitt, which did sneak in at No. 25 when the latest poll was released on Sunday, but the entire conference. What else is there to do after being told before the showdown with the Hokies that it marked the first time two Power Four programs entered a game with identical 4-0 records and neither was ranked?“It’s disrespectful to the ACC,” Narduzzi said Monday.If Narduzzi sounds a little touchy, maybe it’s because he has grown increasingly annoyed about repeatedly hitting the same talking points to an audience not particularly interested in listening. While he leans into the fight, part of him wonders why one always seems to be necessary.Well, actually maybe he doesn’t wonder.“I think it’s all the brands,” Narduzzi said, seemingly alluding to the Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference. “Everybody wants to look at the logo and gets all infatuated with logos and all that stuff.”The Big Ten has six teams ranked this week. The SEC has nine. The ACC? Just three: No. 4 Miami, with SMU at 24, one spot ahead of the Panthers.Narduzzi knows there’s a part of him that is trying to have it both ways. He repeatedly said during September that the early season polls don’t matter. Yet he knows he’s in the minority, and it’s much easier for him now at 60 to put the poll in what he considers the proper perspective. As if to prove a point, he made a not-so-veiled reference to an unnamed program that had a number next to its name earlier in the season, a number that has since vanished.“I mean, you look at the school down the road gets into the Top 25, and what did they really do to get into the Top 25?” he said.Asked later who he was referring to, Narduzzi just laughed, though longtime rivals West Virginia and Penn State both fit the profile. The Nittany Lions and first-year coach Matt Campbell started the season ranked 18th and rose after opening with three uneventful wins against lesser competition. Two conference losses later and Penn State is out of the polls, and Campbell’s honeymoon at his alma mater is over.West Virginia made a cameo in the Top 25 after throttling past Virginia on Sept. 18, only to have its defense implode in back-to-back weeks.There’s still plenty of time for narratives to change, particularly at Pitt, which will have to play the rest of the season