Who had the most elite losses over the last five years? Here are the conference rankings of the teams and their losses to the best of the best – the defeats to the powerhouses on the slate.
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They’re the big losses that hurt, but are forgivable. By conference, who had the most losses to the elite teams over the last five years?
An Elite Loss is a loss to a team that finished with two losses or fewer.
ACC
1 Florida State 9
2 Louisville 8
T3 Georgia Tech 7
T3 Pitt 7
T5 Boston College 6
T5 Syracuse 6
T5 Wake Forest 6
T5 Virginia Tech 6
9 NC State 5
10 Miami 4
T11 Clemson 3
T11 Duke 3
T11 North Carolina 3
T11 Virginia 3
American Athletic Conference
T1 Navy 9
T1 SMU 9
T3 Cincinnati 8
T3 Memphis 8
T3 Tulane 8
T6 East Carolina 7
T6 Tulsa 7
T6 USF 7
9 Temple 5
10 Houston 4
11 UCF 3
Big 12
1 Iowa State 9
T2 Baylor 7
T2 TCU 7
T2 Texas Tech 7
T5 Kansas 6
T5 Kansas State 6
T5 Texas 6
T5 West Virginia 6
T9 Oklahoma 5
T9 Oklahoma State 5
Big Ten
1 Maryland 12
2 Michigan 11
T3 Indiana 10
T3 Rutgers 10
5 Northwestern 9
6 Nebraska 8
T7 Illinois 7
T7 Wisconsin 7
T9 Michigan State 6
T9 Penn State 6
T11 Iowa 5
T11 Minnesota 5
T11 Purdue 5
14 Ohio State 4
Conference USA
1 North Texas 4
T2 Charlotte 3
T2 Florida Atlantic 3
T2 Middle Tennessee 3
T5 FIU 2
T5 Marshall 2
T5 Old Dominion 2
T5 Southern Miss 2
T9 WKU 1
T9 Louisiana Tech 1
T9 Rice 1
T9 UAB 1
T9 UTEP 1
14 UTSA 0
Independents
T1 UConn 6
T1 Notre Dame 6
3 Army 4
4 New Mexico State 3
T5 BYU 2
T5 UMass 2
7 Liberty 1
MAC
T1 Kent State 4
T1 Miami Univ. 4
T4 Buffalo 3
T4 Ohio 3
T4 Central Michigan 3
T4 Eastern Michigan 3
T4 Northern Illinois 3
T9 Bowling Green 2
T9 Ball State 2
T9 Toledo 2
T9 Western Michigan 2
NEXT: MW, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt
Mountain West
T1 Hawaii 7
T1 San Jose State 7
3 Wyoming 6
T4 Air Force 5
T4 New Mexico 5
6 Utah State 4
T7 Colorado State 3
T7 Fresno State 3
T7 UNLV 3
10 Nevada 2
T11 Boise State 1
T11 San Diego State 1
Pac-12
1 USC 7
T2 Oregon State 5
T2 Stanford 5
T2 Washington 5
T2 UCLA 5
T6 Oregon 4
T6 Washington State 4
T6 Utah 4
T9 California 3
T9 Arizona 3
T9 Colorado 3
12 Arizona State 1
SEC
1 Auburn 12
2 South Carolina 10
T3 Tennessee 9
T3 Texas A&M 9
5 Vanderbilt 8
6 Mississippi State 7
7 Ole Miss 6
8 Florida 5
T9 Georgia 4
T9 Kentucky 4
T9 Missouri 4
T9 Arkansas 4
T9 LSU 4
14 Alabama 3
Sun Belt
1 Louisiana 6
T2 Arkansas State 5
T2 Georgia Southern 5
T2 ULM 5
T5 Georgia State 4
T5 South Alabama 4
T5 Texas State 4
T5 Troy 4
9 Coastal Carolina 3
10 Appalachian State 2
