It wasn't that long ago that the Atlantic Coast Conference was winning national titles at as high a rate as any conference.

Between 2013 and 2018, the ACC won three national championships (Florida State in 2013, Clemson in 2016 and 2018), more than any other conference over that span.

In the six years since, the ACC has won zero national titles while the Big Ten, which had won just one title between 2003 and 2022, has surged past the ACC by winning each of the last two.

However, the re-emergence of Clemson last season gives the conference its best shot in a number of years to snap that drought this fall. The Tigers' No. 4 preseason ranking in the AP poll is the highest for an ACC team since 2022 Clemson was ranked fourth to begin the season.

"We've been a target around here for a long

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