IT’S NO WONDER you can get a pair tickets to the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship Game for the price of a bottle of shampoo, a disposable razor and a six-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Really, tickets for Saturday’s ACC title game between Florida State and Georgia Tech are selling online for as low as $3 — no surprise, considering what a punch line the ACC has become as a football league.

The joke became even more laughable Wednesday when the ACC and its shortsighted leadership added Louisville to its stable of mules, donkeys and Shetland ponies.

This comes on the heels of ACC officials standing idly by and allowing Miami to self-impose a postseason ban a couple of weeks before the Hurricanes would have been playing Florida State in Saturday’s conference championship game. That allowed a pitiful 6-6 Georgia Tech team, coming off a 42-10 dismantling at the hands of Georgia, to back into an ACC title game that is now a national laughingstock.

Imagine the embarrassment if Georgia Tech somehow FSU and earns the league’s automatic bid to the Orange Bowl? You think SEC commissioner Mike Slive would allow one of the participants in the SEC Championship Game to back out two weeks before the game? How could ACC commissioner John Swofford permit Miami to humiliate his league and its football championship game?

Just more proof that Swofford and his ACC colleagues have absolutely no vision when it comes to the future of their football league.

It’s no wonder so many Florida State fans and boosters want out of the ACC. They are a football school hopelessly trapped in a league being run by a bunch of basketball boneheads.

Why are the last three teams the ACC has added — Syracuse, Pitt and now Louisville — all basketball schools that just so happen to play football? Why isn’t the ACC, like the Big Ten, looking 10 years down the road instead of 10 minutes down the road?

Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany stole Maryland from the ACC and Rutgers from the Big East not because Maryland and Rutgers have quality programs but because they deliver monster TV markets and millions of potential subscribers to the Big Ten Network. These subscribers will allow Maryland and Rutgers to make at least $10 million a year more in the Big Ten than they do in the ACC and Big East. This is why Georgia Tech, located in the mammoth Atlanta TV market, will likely be the next ACC school to bolt for the Big Ten.

Sure, Delany could easily invite Florida State or Clemson from the ACC, but the Big Ten’s not worried about BCS rankings so much as it’s worried about TV market size.

Mr. Magoo has more long-range vision than ACC administrators do.

“With the addition of the University of Louisville, the ACC continues to be well positioned for the future competing at the highest level in all facets of the collegiate experience,” said the ACC Council of Presidents in a joint self-serving statement Wednesday. “The ACC continues to be a vibrant conference. …”

Blah, blah, blah.

If the conference is so vibrant, then why do I expect to go to the drive-through window at Wendy’s and see these items on the dollar menu:

Junior cheeseburger deluxe, five-piece spicy chicken nuggets, small Frosty, crispy chicken Caesar wrap and … ACC Championship Game tickets.