CLEMSON — Last year was a crazy year in the ACC.

Virginia led the conference race all season, posting a 7-1 record in league play to clinch a spot in the ACC Championship Game. Considering no one saw the Cavaliers doing such a thing was crazy enough. However, that was not even the craziest part of the championship race.

The ACC, always known for its wacky outcomes, had a record five-way tie for second place between Miami, Georgia Tech, SMU, Duke and Pittsburgh, who all went 6-2 in league games.

Duke won the tiebreaker by claiming the conference’s highest combined opponent winning percentage. The Blue Devils advanced to the championship game because their conference opponents posted a combined 32-32 (.500) record.

The Blue Devils, who were 7-5 overall at the time, went on to stun Virginia in the ACC Championship race, knocking them out of the College Football Playoff and giving Miami a path to the playoffs, which the Hurricanes followed all the way to the national championship game.

Of course, the ACC did not help matters in the offseason when it decided to move to a nine-game league schedule, though it has just 17 teams. It puts the ACC in a situation where five teams this season—Clemson, NC State, Virginia, Georgia Tech and Boston College—will play just eight games, while the other 12 schools will play nine.

The ACC is expected to update its tiebreaking rules prior to the start of the season to accommodate the fact that five teams are playing one less league game.

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney does not have any suggestions on what the ACC should do this coming fall regarding tiebreaking rules.

“I got none. I don’t care. I just want to win,” Swinney said during his annual media outing with the local press at the Smart Family Media Center on Tuesday. “If we win, that’s my tiebreaker. Let’s go win.

“Let’s just stay out of it. Let’s just stay out of having to figure all that stuff out. I don’t have enough degrees to process all that. I mean, it’s complicated. But man, I just want to focus on winning. That’s my thoughts on it.”

The ACC could make an announcement about its new tiebreaking rules when Commissioner Jim Phillips meets with the media on Wednesday morning in Day 1 of ACC Kickoff in Charlotte, N.C.