When the season began a little more than three weeks ago, ESPN’s Football Power Index gave Louisville a 4 percent chance to win the ACC title.
Today, the Cards’ chances have skyrocketed to 57 percent.
That’s right. Louisville is now the favorite to win the ACC, and has the best chance of any team in the country to make it to bowl season unbeaten (27 percent).
In other words, forget what you thought you knew about ACC football. Over four quarters Saturday, Louisville completely shifted the dynamic away from the status quo toward the unexpected. We thought Florida State and Clemson were the teams to beat because … they had been the teams to beat in the Atlantic over the last seven seasons.