This was a series I was going to work on in May, but the off-season started earlier than we wanted.
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Games 1 – 5 | Games 6 – 10 | Games 11 – 15 | Games 21 – 25 | Games 26 – 30 | Games 31 – 35 | Games 36 – 40 | Games 40 – 45 | Games 46 – 50
16. #12 Clemson 24 #6 Notre Dame 22 – October 3, 2015
This game laid the groundwork for Clemson’s 2015 National Title appearance run. This game had it all – National TV, Prime-Time, Gameday and an epic game. It was the BYOG (Bring Your Own Guts) game as Dabo Swinney called it. Again the Irish slipped down the stretch losing their final 2 games, but without this high-profile win Clemson probably doesn’t make the college football playoffs. This is the first of two classic ACC Games that went into the final seconds with Notre Dame.
17. #7 Miami 41 #3 Notre Dame 8 – November 11, 2017
Mark Richt and his Miami Hurricanes had a vintage performance against at the time the #3 ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish. In prime time national TV, the Hurricanes absolutely ran the Irish off the field. It got Miami into the thick of the playoff chase and eventually into the top 5. Even though Miami lost their last three games of the season – they reached the ACCCG and made the Orange Bowl in one of their best seasons in years.
18. Miami 31 #16 West Virginia 14 – December 28, 2016
The Miami Hurricanes hadn’t won a bowl game since 2006, but returned to the bowl winner’s circle in 2016 with a turn back the clock performance against a top 20 ranked West Virginia team. Mark Richt in his first year at Miami, led the Canes to a 9-4 record and a top 25 season.
19. #3 Clemson 14 #13 Auburn 6 – September 9, 2017
This game was headed for the top 10 of this list before Auburn fell apart in their final 2 games of the year against Georgia and UCF. Prior to that Auburn was in position to be the first team to make the playoffs with 2 losses. Don’t let the score fool you, Clemson dominated this game. Auburn could barely cross mid-field for the final 3 quarters of the game, and totaled only 117 yards on offense. Auburn would later beat both teams that would appear in the national title game Alabama and Georgia, and still finished the season in top 10.
20. #23 Florida State 26 #19 South Carolina 17 – December 31, 2010
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.
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