The ACC didn't send a team to the College Football Playoff for the second straight season, but it was a familiar face at the top despite falling short of its lofty goals in Clemson.
The Tigers have won eight ACC Championships since 2011 and will look to make it a ninth, but the rest of the conference should be far improved with Florida State set to field its most formidable roster in several years around Heisman Trophy contender Jordan Travis and future first round pass rusher Jared Verse.
There's a crowded middle of the conference below those two contenders, including Drake Maye and North Carolina as well as a host of transfer quarterbacks like Brenan Armstrong at North Carolina State and Phil Jurkovec at Pittsburgh after transferring within the conference.