Recently we reviewed the ACC’s best 25 OOC wins of the decade so far. Some really good wins got left off the list, so I decided for a little off-season reading to give you the best five OOC wins for each ACC team so far this decade
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1. #2 Clemson 35 #1 Alabama 31 – January 9, 2017 (#2 on ACC Top 25 OOC Win List of Decade)
Clemson defeated Alabama in the national title game for their first national championship since 1981. Many thought this was Nick Saban’s best Alabama team ever, and the Tide were going for their 5th title in 8 years. Alabama is the current standard in college football, and they made the SEC their personal playground, but they couldn’t beat Clemson in this one. Clemson QB Deshaun Watson became a legend, and the game stamped the ACC as the best football conference in the country for 2016.
2. #2 Clemson 31 #3 Ohio State 0 – December 31, 2016 (#3 on ACC Top 25 OOC Win List of Decade)
The final score of the national semi-final game between Clemson and Ohio State seems impossible. Clemson had beat an Urban Meyer coached Ohio State team 31-0. It is the single most shocking score of the playoff era. The Tigers dominated in every phase of the game. It was the first time Meyer had ever been shut out as a head coach, and it set the stage for a rematch against Alabama in the national title game. Urban Meyer at Ohio State has an astonishing 47-3 record in the Big 10, but he’s 1-3 against teams from the ACC.
3. #15 Clemson 25 #9 LSU 24 – December 31, 2012 (#4 on ACC Top 25 OOC Win List of Decade)
If any game marked the beginning of the ACC and Clemson being able to compete with the elite of college football it was this one. At the time the SEC was still the standard when it came to college football. Clemson defeated a LSU team that was a handful of plays from the national title game. The game also proved Clemson had the potential to be a college football power. Since that game, Clemson has established itself as one of the premier college football programs in the country. This is where it all started.
4. #1 Clemson 37 #4 Oklahoma 17 – December 31, 2015 (#5 on ACC Top 25 OOC Win List of Decade)
It was a bit surprising that coming into this Orange Bowl National Semi-Final game, that 13-0 Clemson was an underdog to Oklahoma. Those of us that followed Clemson, knew the Tigers were very good, but after this thrashing of the Sooners the rest of the country knew too. The win propelled the Tigers into the National Title Game against Alabama, and gave the ACC it’s second National Title participant in three years.
5. #12 Clemson 40 #7 Ohio State 35 – January 3, 2014 (#8 on ACC Top 25 OOC Win List of Decade)
Clemson showed with this win, that they were here to stay as a football power. Along with FSU’s national championship win, it gave the ACC a 2-0 BCS record in 2013. The 2-13 BCS record of the ACC was a distant memory. At the time, Urban Meyer had only lost 4 games in 3 years at Ohio State, and this was one of them. Clemson used this win to finish 2013 in the top 10.
Clemson has 5 of the top 8 ACC OOC wins this decade – incredible.
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