After years of conference realignment, the college football landscape was revamped in 2013. The Big East dissolved, the WAC disassembled, the American Athletic Conference formed, and the Power 5 was established — all one season before the College Football Playoff began.
Since, Group of 5 schools have constantly tested their talents against programs from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC during each season's early non-conference slate. In the past four years, there have been 15 occasions of the MAC surmounting Goliath. Ranked by the significance of the victory, difficulty, and execution, here are the MAC's Power 5 triumphs since 2013:
Road Game, 2015 Purdue (2-10)
The eventual 2015 MAC champions barely escaped a weak Purdue team during a slow start to the season.