ACC's playoff hopes took a turn over five days

Joe Tessitore reveals the Heisman ballot fallout Lamar Jackson has experienced since Louisville's devastating loss to Houston. (2:12)November should have been a cakewalk for the ACC. When the month began, the league had one undefeated team and two legitimate playoff contenders.

Neither Clemson nor Louisville had a ranked team left on its regular-season schedule. Both were overwhelming favorites to win the remainder of their games. All they had to do was follow the script and win.

But over a five-day span, they unwittingly trashed the script and left the ACC staring at a sobering thought: A league widely expected to land a team in the College Football Playoff for the third straight season…