Duke Football did the until, and that was winning the ACC Championship. By doing so, it could change how to ACC deals with tiebreakers.

The Blue Devils beat Virginia but were bypassed for a playoff berth; Sun Belt champion Tulane and American Athletic champion James Madison were rated ahead of Duke by the CFP and thus received playoff bids instead. The ACC approved those tiebreakers in 2024, and Phillips said nobody objected at the time.

The win marked Duke's first league title since it split one with the Cavaliers in 1989 before the establishment of the ACC Championship Game. Virginia (10-3) was also seeking its first-ever conference championship game victory but couldn't overcome a barrage of clutch plays from the Blue Devils.

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ACC commissioner Jim Phillips says the league will review its tiebreaker rules after Duke won the ACC title but missed the college playoff.

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