The ACC is one of the Power 5 conferences that gets the benefit of the doubt when it has a dominant team like Clemson, which has beaten its first three opponents this season by a combined score of 117–30.
Conventional wisdom will say that with this kind of dominance, especially within its own conference, one slipup will have the Tigers watching the playoff at home. But they may not have to worry about that, especially with the way the rest of the ACC played on Saturday.
Let’s review:
• Boston College let a three-touchdown underdog in Kansas, which hadn’t won a Power 5 road game since the end of the Bush 43 administration, come into town and beat it by three touchdowns.