Clemson knocked Alabama off the top of the college football mountain early Tuesday morning but the ACC dethroned the SEC – for the 2016 college football season at least – long before Hunter Renfrow’s 2-yard touchdown clinched the national title for the Tigers.
Supremacy is not about feel or, as the SEC’s unbelievably smug slogan, “It just means more,” suggests, passion. It is established by numbers.
And here’s the ACC’s indisputable numerical argument: 10-4.
The ACC won 10 of the 14 games played between the two Power 5 conferences this season, including a 4-1 mark in the postseason.