PINEHURST, N.C. — The Atlantic Coast Conference has entered a period of strength and stability. Nobody’s coming in anytime soon, and nobody’s leaving.

The league has won three straight Orange Bowls. It placed its champion into the inaugural College Football Playoff.

And it continues its consideration of a revenue-generating cable network that would rival those in the Southeastern Conference and Big Ten.

“We have a lot of consistency right now in ACC football,” Commissioner John Swofford said Monday during the league’s preseason media day. “And we’ve got some solid bases to build from, because of the successes of the last several years.”

Swofford said the league continues to discuss the possibility of an ACC-specific channel with ESPN and within the league. Swofford said the conference is “being very deliberate and thorough” in the decision-making process.

“We’ve positioned ourselves very well as a league for future options,” he added, “whatever those future options may be.”

On the field, there’s really no clear-cut preseason favorite.

That certainly hasn’t been the case in the past few years. Jameis Winston and Florida State earned a Heisman Trophy and a national championship in 2013 and then a berth in the playoff last year.

Winston’s gone, off to the NFL. Leading rusher Dalvin Cook was suspended from the team after he was charged with striking a woman at a bar. And while the defense — led by All-America cornerback Jalen Ramsey — is loaded, only three offensive starters return.

Ramsey said the question he was most frequently asked Monday was “how our team will cope, how we will go about things, without some key guys that we had last year.

“The response to that is, you know, Florida State,” Ramsey added. “We’re going to hold ourselves to a high standard every single year, year in and year out.”

The three-time reigning ACC champion Seminoles haven’t lost a conference game since 2012, but they figure to receive more of a test from the rest of the deep Atlantic Division than in recent years.