CHARLOTTE, N.C. — You could pick a play, perhaps one of the five touchdowns or one of three forced turnovers, and declare it the moment Clemson's 38-3 destruction of Miami in the ACC Championship Game began.
In truth, however, it started much earlier than that. It began when the teams shared the Bank of America Stadium field in warm-ups Saturday, when Clemson's next batch of talent, a group that wasn't supposed to be this good this quickly, looked the part of college football's most dominant force.
It wasn't Alabama, the greatest given of the past five years and the constant engine driving the sport.