How many elite wins did you get? Who came up with the really, really big victories? Here are the conference rankings of the teams with FBS wins over the strongest and best teams each season.
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Coming up with lots of wins always matters, but pulling off the massive victory over the top team in the big game can define a season.
In the CFN Five-Year Program Analysis, an Elite Win is a victory over an FBS team that finished with two losses or fewer, or on the road or in a bowl game against a team that lost three games. An extra 0.5 is added on to the Elite Win score when a team comes up with a road victory over a team that finished with two losses or fewer.
As you’ll notice, it’s really, really hard to get a win over a great team – that’s why they’re Elite Wins.
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ACC
1 Clemson 10.5
2 Florida State 3.5
T3 Georgia Tech 2
T3 Miami 2
T5 Pitt 1.5
T5 Virginia Tech 1.5
7 Syracuse 1
7 Duke 1
7 North Carolina 1
7 Virginia 1
T11 Boston College 0
T11 Louisville 0
T11 NC State 0
T11 Wake Forest 0
American Athletic
1 Houston 5.5
2 UCF 2
T3 Connecticut 1
T3 Temple 1
T3 Navy 1
T6 Cincinnati 0
T6 East Carolina 0
T6 Memphis 0
T6 SMU 0
T6 Tulane 0
T6 Tulsa 0
T6 USF 0
Big Ten
1 Ohio State 12
2 Michigan State 7
3 Penn State 5
4 Iowa 3
5 Wisconsin 2.5
6 Indiana 2
T7 Minnesota 1
T7 Nebraska 1
T7 Northwestern 1
T7 Purdue 1
T11 Maryland 0
T11 Michigan 0
T11 Rutgers 0
T11 Illinois 0
Big 12
1 Oklahoma 8.5
T2 Baylor 4
T2 Texas 4
4 Iowa State 1.5
T5 Kansas State 1
T5 Oklahoma State 1
T5 TCU 1
T5 West Virginia 1
T9 Kansas 0
T9 Texas Tech 0
Conference USA
1 WKU 1.5
2 Marshall 1
T3 Charlotte 0
T3 FIU 0
T3 Florida Atlantic 0
T3 Middle Tennessee 0
T3 Old Dominion 0
T3 Louisiana Tech 0
T3 North Texas 0
T3 Rice 0
T3 Southern Miss 0
T3 UAB 0
T3 UTEP 0
T3 UTSA 0
Independents
1 Notre Dame 3
2 Army 1
T3 BYU 0
T3 Liberty 0
T3 UMass 0
T3 New Mexico State 0
NEXT: MAC, MW, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt
In the CFN Five-Year Program Analysis, an Elite Win is a victory over an FBS team that finished with two losses or fewer, or on the road or in a bowl game against a team that lost three games. An extra 0.5 is added on to the Elite Win score when a team comes up with a road victory over a team that finished with two losses or fewer.
MAC
1 Central Michigan 2
T2 Northern Illinois 1.5
T2 Western Michigan 1.5
T4 Akron 0
T4 Bowling Green 0
T4 Buffalo 0
T4 Kent State 0
T4 Miami Univ. 0
T4 Ohio 0
T4 Ball State 0
T4 Eastern Michigan 0
T4 Toledo 0
Mountain West
1 Boise State 5
2 Fresno State 2
T3 Air Force 1
T3 Colorado State 1
T3 Hawaii 1
T3 San Diego State 1
T7 New Mexico 0
T7 Utah State 0
T7 Wyoming 0
T7 Nevada 0
T7 San Jose State 0
T7 UNLV 0
Pac-12
1 Oregon 5
2 USC 3.5
3 Stanford 2.5
T4 UCLA 2
T4 Utah 2
T6 Washington 1.5
T6 Arizona 1.5
T8 Washington State 1
T8 Colorado 1
T10 California 0
T10 Oregon State 0
T10 Arizona State 0
SEC
1 Alabama 10.5
2 Georgia 5.5
3 Ole Miss 4.5
T4 Arkansas 2
T4 Auburn 2
T4 LSU 2
T7 Florida 1
T7 Kentucky 1
T7 Missouri 1
T7 Tennessee 1
T11 South Carolina 0
T11 Vanderbilt 0
T11 Mississippi State 0
T11 Texas A&M 0
Sun Belt
T1 Arkansas State 2.5
T1 South Alabama 2.5
T3 Appalachian State 1
T3 Georgia Southern 1
T3 Troy 1
T6 Coastal Carolina 0
T6 Georgia State 0
T6 Louisiana 0
T6 Texas State 0
T6 ULM 0
