There’s lots to be excited about when looking ahead at what we have left this season after the Cards blanked Duke 23-0. As always, with the first College Football Playoff poll dropping it’s an awful lot easier to project bowls since those will be the rankings that are used for bowl selections. And with the Cards sitting at #13 in the first ranking with only one loss on their record, they are still in the race for a potential berth in the College Football Playoff.
But in order to even dream of winning the ACC Championship Game and crashing the CFP, they have to make the ACC Championship Game first.