After No. 3 Clemson steamrolled Virginia, 62-17, in the ACC Championship Game last week to win its fifth consecutive ACC Championship, Cavaliers quarterback Bryce Perkins said the gap between the Tigers and the rest of the league is still big.
“Coming out here tonight and just seeing it firsthand, they’re a great team, and I think the gap between them and the ACC is big,” he said after the game. “But I feel like we’re closer than people think, and we played extremely well at times, and we executed, and there was glimpses of this Virginia team that can be one of the teams that battles with them from year to year, from here on out.