Things to watch this week in the Atlantic Coast Conference:

Game of the week

No. 13 Miami (9-2, 5-2 ACC) at No. 24 Pittsburgh (8-3, 6-1), Saturday, noon ET (ABC)

The ACC race is so jumbled that the marquee game for the final week features two ranked teams that can't simply win their way into the league championship game. The Panthers are on the verge of getting squeezed out of the league title game due to tiebreakers with No. 17 Virginia and No. 25 SMU — none of those three teams played this year — that come down to a Sept. 27 loss to Louisville.

None of that matters, though, if the Panthers don't beat the Hurricanes. Miami remains the league's top team in the College Football Playoff rankings (No. 12) to stay in the running for an at-large CFP bid as the ACC hopes for another multibid

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