The matchup for the 2025 ACC championship game has been set, but in true ACC football fashion, it took several unexpected twists and turns to get there.

On Saturday, Dec. 6 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, No. 17 Virginia and Duke — teams picked to finish 14th and sixth, respectively, in the league's preseason poll — will square off with a conference title, and potentially a College Football Playoff berth, on the line.

The contest was made possible by an entertaining Week 14 with at least one particularly notable result.

Needing only a win against a 6-5 Cal team playing under an interim head coach to get into the ACC championship game, No. 25 SMU stumbled, missing what would have been a game-tying 52-yard field goal in the final 10 seconds to fall to the Golden Bears 3

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