The ACC’s 50 best Out of Conference Football wins of the 2010s (1-5)

This was a series I was going to work on in May, but the off-season started earlier than we wanted.

#StayHealthy and practice social distancing.

Games 6 – 10 | Games  11 – 15  | Games 16 – 20 | Games 21 – 25 | Games 26 – 30 | Games 31 – 35 | Games 36 – 40 | Games 40 – 45 | Games 46 – 50

1. #2 Clemson 44 #1 Alabama 16 – January 7, 2019

It is the national championship game that left most of the country in disbelief. Alabama was the media-anointed greatest team ever, and they got pulverized by Clemson in a fashion few thought possible. SEC Media members, and Alabama players months after the game still could not rationally comprehend the beating Clemson handed to Alabama. It simply shook the college football world.

2. #1 Florida State 34 #2 Auburn 31 – January 6, 2014

This result will go down was one of the most historically significant games 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.

3. #2 Clemson 35 #1 Alabama 31 – January 9, 2017

Clemson defeated Alabama in the national title game for their first national championship since 1981. Many thought at the time this was Nick Saban’s best Alabama team ever, and the Tide were going for their 5th title in 8 years. Alabama was 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.

4. #2 Clemson 31 #3 Ohio State 0 – December 31, 2016

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 second 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 had an astonishing 47-3 record in the Big 10, but he was 1-3 against teams from the ACC at the time.

5. #15 Clemson 25  #9 LSU 24 – December 31, 2012

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.

Make sure you follow the All Sports Discussion Twitter account at @AllSportsDACC and please like our Facebook Page