Tuesday, the ACC announced that both the Clemson Tigers and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish would drop their final ACC make-up games, and the conference would choose its two champion game participants based on the results of the first nine ACC games. From the official ACC press release:
Following a recommendation from the conference Athletic Director football subcommittee, the league’s Athletic Directors have voted to preserve the integrity of the ACC Football Championship Game by evaluating each of the three teams in contention (Clemson, Miami and Notre Dame) based on a nine-game conference schedule.