With the Clemson Tigers' win over the Syracuse Orange and a Friday night matchup between SMU and Virginia Tech, among other games, the ACC standings look a bit different after Week 10 of the 2026 college football season.
Clemson (6-3, 4-2 ACC), for one, moved up in the standings with its second straight win in conference play. The Tigers' defense forced two turnovers and scored Clemson's only touchdown of the day when Kourtney Kelly forced a Steve Angeli fumble that Jahiem Lawson scooped up and ran 22 yards for a touchdown.
Nolan Hauser added four field goals, and Clemson quarterback Tait Reynolds put the game out of a reach with two first-down runs on the Tigers' final drive.
Elsewhere in the ACC, SMU bounced back with a 51-point explosion in a 51-28
win over James Franklin's Hokies in Dallas to hand Virginia Tech its third loss.
The Miami Hurricanes suffered their first loss of the season, but it was a nonconference loss at Notre Dame in a No. 1 vs. No. 4 showdown. Wake Forest rolled to a 77-0 win over Merrimack, an FCS foe, in Winston-Salem as the upstart Demon Deacons kept their foot on the gas in Week 10.
Louisville and Duke also kept its ACC championship game hopes alive with lopsided wins. The Cardinals' 44-17 rout at Georgia Tech in Atlanta kept Brent Key and the Yellow Jackets buried at the bottom of the standings while Manny Diaz's Blue Devils handed NC State a 41-3 loss in Raleigh.
Here is a look at the updated ACC regular-season standings following Week 10 in the conference.
Updated ACC football conference standings after Week 10: Clemson rises after win at Syracuse
Here are the full ACC standings for all 17 ACC teams entering Week 11.
- 1. Miami Hurricanes (6-0 ACC, 8-1 overall)
- 2. Wake Forest Demon Deacons (5-1 ACC, 8-1 overall)
- T-3. Louisville Cardinals (5-2 ACC, 6-3 overall)
- T-3. SMU Mustangs (5-2 ACC, 7-2 overall)
- T-5. Duke Blue Devils (4-2 ACC, 7-2 overall)
- T-5. Clemson Tigers (4-2 ACC, 6-3 overall)
- T-7. Pitt Panthers (3-3 ACC, 6-3 overall)
- T-7. Virginia Tech Hokies (3-2 ACC, 6-2 overall)
- 9. North Carolina Tar Heels (2-3 ACC, 5-4 overall)
- T-10. Florida State Seminoles (2-4 ACC, 4-5 overall)
- T-10. Stanford Cardinal (2-4 ACC, 4-5 overall)
- T-10. Virginia Cavaliers (2-4 ACC, 4-5 overall)
- T-10. NC State Wolfpack (2-4 ACC, 4-5 overall)
- T-10. Boston College Eagles (2-4 ACC, 4-5 overall)
- T-10. California Golden Bears (2-4 ACC, 3-6 overall)
- 16. Syracuse Orange (2-5 ACC, 4-5 overall)
- 17. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (1-5, 2-7 overall)
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Clemson football schedule 2026
Clemson faces Georgia Tech at Clemson Memorial Stadium in Week 11 of the 2026 college football season. Kickoff is 12:30 p.m. ET. The game will be televised on The CW.
All times Eastern.
- Sept. 5: at LSU (L, 51-10)
- Sept. 12: vs. Georgia Southern (W, 22-7)
- Sept. 19: vs. North Carolina (W, 28-20)
- Sept. 25: at California (W, 24-10)
- Oct. 3: vs. Miami (L, 41-13)
- Oct. 17: vs. Charleston Southern (W, 37-0)
- Oct. 24: vs. Virginia Tech (L, 20-16)
- Oct. 31: at Florida State (W, 36-24)
- Nov. 7: at Syracuse (W, 18-13)
- Nov. 14: vs. Georgia Tech, 12:30 p.m., The CW
- Nov. 20: at Duke, 7:30 p.m., ESPN
- Nov. 28: vs. South Carolina Gamecocks, TBA
Record: 6-3, 4-2 ACC.
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