Remember when we thought Clemson-Miami was a big ACC matchup earlier this season? We can almost laugh at that now that we've got No. 1 Clemson vs. No. 4 Notre Dame this Saturday.
That still feels like a weird thing to type -- Notre Dame is playing in arguably the biggest ACC game since a 2016 top-5 matchup between Deshaun Watson's Clemson and Lamar Jackson's Louisville.
Notre Dame's participation in the ACC has been one of the biggest storylines of the college football season, a necessity given conference-only schedules in a coronavirus-impacted world. Now, the Irish represent Clemson's biggest threat in the ACC in the past five years -- yes, it's a low bar to clear -- as Notre Dame enters the game with a real chance at pulling off the upset after 131 years of conference-free football.