{"id":48233,"date":"2025-11-16T01:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/48233\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T01:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:07:13","slug":"2025-acc-championship-game-scenarios-miamis-path-georgia-tech-in-drivers-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/48233\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 ACC Championship Game scenarios: Miami’s path, Georgia Tech in driver’s seat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ACC opened November struggling to make its case as a legitimate College Football Playoff contender<\/a>\u00a0after a series of unexpected results, and another crazy weekend has spiked the league championship conversation once again coming down the stretch.<\/p>\n

No. 15 Miami<\/a>, a longshot to reach the ACC title game despite being the playoff selection committee’s highest-rated team<\/a> in the conference this week as projected champion, saw one domino that needed to fall happen for the Hurricanes to stay alive. With Miami’s blowout win over NC State<\/a>, there’s now a path for the conference to get multiple bids in the 12-team bracket if the Hurricanes win out but fail to win the league.<\/p>\n

They’re going to need help from others, however.<\/p>\n

Clemson’s stunning upset of Louisville<\/a> on Friday night preceded Saturday’s wild double-digit comeback by Georgia Tech<\/a> at Boston College<\/a> and Virginia’s<\/a> takedown of Duke<\/a>. Now that the dust has settled, Georgia Tech is one win away from reaching the ACC title game while Virginia, SMU<\/a> and Pittsburgh<\/a> are the three other ACC teams with one conference loss saddled by various scenarios in play over the final two weeks of the season.<\/p>\n

Pat Narduzzi acknowledged\u00a0Pitt’s ACC-slanted focus<\/a>\u00a0earlier in the week, but it wasn’t much of a pre-game excuse for a 37-15 loss to Notre Dame<\/a> in a one-sided affair. Virginia appears to be in the best shape to get to Charlotte<\/a> and helped the ACC avoid the doomsday scenario in which a four-loss Duke team ran the table and was potentially skipped over by the selection committee in favor of a second Group of Five champion.<\/p>\n

Before diving into conference championship game scenarios, let’s go over the league standings:<\/p>\n

ACC standings after Week 12<\/p>\n

No. 16 Georgia Tech<\/p>\n

9-1, 6-1<\/p>\n

Beat Boston College, 36-34<\/p>\n

No. 19 Virginia<\/p>\n

7-3, 5-1<\/p>\n

Beat Duke, 34-17<\/p>\n

SMU<\/p>\n

7-3, 5-1<\/p>\n

OFF<\/p>\n

No. 22 Pitt<\/p>\n

7-3, 5-1<\/p>\n

Lost to No. 9 Notre Dame, 37-15<\/p>\n

No. 15 Miami<\/p>\n

8-2, 4-2<\/p>\n

Beat NC State, 41-7<\/p>\n

Duke<\/p>\n

5-5, 4-2<\/p>\n

Lost to Virginia, 34-17<\/p>\n

20th-ranked Louisville<\/a> was one of seven teams entering Week 12 who still had a shot at playing for a conference title, but that ended with late-game failures against Clemson<\/a>. Now, there’s six teams on the table with Duke being a considerable long shot after failing to deliver at home.<\/p>\n

Georgia Tech reaches ACC Championship Game if …Beat Pitt<\/p>\n

In this scenario, Georgia Tech (7-1 in ACC) locks in berth as first-place team, awaits Virginia or who wins tiebreaker.<\/p>\n

Virginia reaches ACC Championship Game if …Beat Virginia Tech<\/a>\u00a0SMU loses to Louisville or CalPitt loses to Georgia Tech or Miami<\/p>\n

In this scenario, Virginia (7-1) locks in berth as first-place team; Georgia Tech or Pitt or SMU for second.<\/p>\n

Miami reaches ACC Championship Game if …Beats Virginia Tech and PittVirginia beats Virginia TechPitt beats Georgia Tech, Duke beats North Carolina<\/a>, SMU beats Louisville
Cal beats SMU, Wake Forest<\/a> beats Duke<\/p>\n

In this scenario, Virginia (7-1 in ACC) and Miami (6-2) go to Charlotte with four-way tiebreaker advantages over Georgia<\/a> Tech\/Pitt\/SMU.<\/p>\n

Beats Virginia Tech and PittVirginia beats Virginia TechPitt beats Georgia Tech, Duke beats North Carolina, Louisville beats SMU
SMU beats Cal, Wake Forest beats Duke<\/p>\n

In this scenario, Virginia (7-1 in ACC) and Miami (6-2) go to Charlotte with four-way tiebreaker advantages over Georgia Tech\/Pitt\/SMU.<\/p>\n

Pitt reaches ACC Championship Game if …Beats Georgia Tech and MiamiSMU loses to Louisville or Cal\u00a0Virginia beats Virginia Tech<\/p>\n

In this scenario, Pitt (7-1) and Virginia (7-1) go to Charlotte.<\/p>\n

Beats Georgia Tech and MiamiSMU beats Louisville and CalVirginia Tech beats Virginia<\/p>\n

In this scenario, Pitt (7-1) and SMU (7-1) go to Charlotte.<\/p>\n

SMU reaches ACC Championship Game if …Beats Louisville and CalVirginia Tech beats VirginiaPitt beats Georgia TechMiami beats Pitt<\/p>\n

In this scenario, SMU (7-1) and Pitt (6-2) go to Charlotte with tiebreaker advantages over Miami\/Virginia\/Georgia Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ACC opened November struggling to make its case as a legitimate College Football Playoff contender\u00a0after a series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31135,31136,21834,6789,4696,6786,143,2516,4669,4683,2515,123,4641,31138,31137,125,124,10088,4676,4699,6761,4700,4682,6755,6788],"class_list":["post-48233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-2025-acc-championship-game","tag-2025-acc-championship-game-scenarios","tag-acc-championship-game","tag-boston-college-eagles","tag-charlotte-49ers","tag-clemson-tigers","tag-college-football","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-miami","tag-miami-fla-hurricanes","tag-miami-acc-championship-game-path","tag-miami-cfp-path","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-nc-state-wolfpack","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-pittsburgh-panthers","tag-smu-mustangs","tag-virginia-cavaliers","tag-virginia-tech-hokies","tag-wake-forest-demon-deacons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}