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. #1 Florida State 34 #2 Auburn 31 – January 6, 2014 (#1 on ACC Top 25 OOC Win List of Decade)
What else but this game could be number 1? It will end up being the most historically significant National Championship of the decade. This Seminole team was the SEC National Championship streak stopper that ended at 7. It also marked the end of SEC’s dominance over college football, and gave the ACC it’s first national championship in football in over 10 years. This Florida State team was a transcendent group, that achieved greatness.
2. #11 Florida State 33 #6 Michigan 32 – December 30, 2016 (#7 on ACC Top 25 OOC Win List of Decade)
Michigan spent most of the year as a playoff contender, while especially early in the year a few questions were starting to be asked about the direction of the FSU program. The Noles finished the year with a flourish winning 7 of their last 8 games. The Big 10 was considered college football’s top conference – before bowl season, and this one of the wins that lifted the ACC to #1 by season’s end. The Noles finished in the top 10, and started 2017 as one of the favorites to win the national title. It was the ACC’s 5th straight Orange Bowl win.
3. #2 Florida State 31 #5 Notre Dame 27 – October 19, 2014 (#12 on ACC Top 25 OOC Win List of Decade)
Notre Dame’s late season swoon takes a little luster off this battle, but at the time it was one of the biggest games of the 2014 season. It turned out to be the 2nd highest rated college football game of the regular season, and kept Florida State in the thick of the national title chase. It was a tremendous game that wasn’t decided until the final seconds, as the entire nation watched.
4. #23 Florida State 26 #19 South Carolina 17 – December 31, 2010 (#17 on ACC Top 25 OOC Win List of Decade)
This was one of the first games where you really got the feeling that Jimbo Fisher would be capable of turning the Noles into a National Power. This Chick Fil A Bowl win was against a South Carolina team that won the SEC East and had defeated #1 Alabama earlier in the year. Florida State showed a physicality in this game that would be part of the the Noles national title run a couple of years later.
5. #14 Florida State 27 #10 Florida 2 – November 29, 2015 (#21 on ACC Top 25 OOC Win List of Decade)
Florida came into this game with Florida State 10-1, SEC East Champions, and were playing in the Swamp. They were no match for Florida State. Dalvin Cook ran wild in the 4th quarter, and FSU proved that despite the Gators gaudy record how much separated and continues to separate the two programs.
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