Last Saturday was a day of relative chaos in college football. Seven of the top 25 teams in the US LBM Coaches Poll lost, with much of the carnage occurring in the SEC , where three top-15 teams fell, all to unranked opponents. If there’s a conference that stands to benefit the most from that mayhem, it just might be the ACC, which now has a conceivable path to getting two teams into the 12-team College Football Playoff .
Its three most likely entrants — SMU, Miami and Clemson — held up their end of the bargain with comfortable victories Saturday against Virginia, Wake Forest and The Citadel, respectively. REQUIRED READING: CFP impact for Indiana, Tennessee leads college football winners and losers from Week 13 But what does the rest of the league look like? Here’s how the ACC’s 17 teams stack up after Week 13 of the 2024 college football season: ACC football power rankings 1. SMU (10-1, 7-0 ACC) The Mustangs’ 33-7 win at Virginia was the eighth victory in a row for coach Rhett Lashlee’s team and clinched it a spot in the ACC championship game.
A win against Cal at home on Saturday would give SMU its second-consecutive season with at least 11 wins — a mark it hadn’t previously reached since 1982. 2. Miami (10-1, 6-1) In their first game since a gutting loss at Georgia Tech, the Hurricanes pulled away late from Wake Forest, scoring 22 unanswered points in the final eight minutes for a 42-14 victory.
With a win at Syracuse, Miami will earn just its second-ever.