Duke upsets Virginia in overtime to claim ACC title, possibly shaking up CFP picture

Duke sent the College Football Playoff representation into uncertainty with a stunning overtime triumph connected Saturday.

The Blue Devils won their archetypal outright ACC title since 1962 with a 27-20 triumph implicit Virginia.

Duke backmost Darian Mensah connected with choky extremity Jeremiah Hasley for a 1-yard touchdown connected a fourth-down play successful overtime, successful what would beryllium the deciding score.

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Duke Blue Devils backmost Darian Mensah (10) looks to walk during implicit clip against the Virginia Cavaliers during the 2025 ACC Championship crippled astatine Bank of America Stadium.  (Jim Dedmon/Imagn Images)

Virginia backmost Chandler Morris was intercepted by Duke's Luke Mergott connected the Cavaliers’ archetypal violative play of overtime.

Duke past won a stock of the ACC regular-season rubric successful 1989, sharing it with Virginia successful Steve Spurrier’s last play arsenic the Blue Devils’ coach. The league title crippled was created successful 2005, and Duke got determination this twelvemonth acknowledgment to a five-team tiebreaker.

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Duke's Dan Mahan (12) celebrates defeating the Virginia Cavaliers during the 2025 ACC Championship crippled astatine Bank of America Stadium.  (Jim Dedmon/Imagn Images)

Virginia, the ACC regular-season champion, would person reached the CFP for the archetypal clip successful schoolhouse past with a victory. While Duke is inactive improbable to marque the playoff field, the triumph opens the doorway for a 2nd Group of Five squad — apt James Madison — to sneak in.

JMU alums Ben Overby and James Turner were adjacent astatine the crippled to enactment Duke.

"Nothing against UVA," Turner said excitedly, "but we’re conscionable present to enactment Duke."

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Duke Blue Devils antiaircraft extremity Wesley Williams (97) celebrates with information DaShawn Stone (8) aft defeating the Virginia Cavaliers during the 2025 ACC Championship crippled astatine Bank of America Stadium. (Jim Dedmon/Imagn Images)

ACC commissioner Jim Phillips argued this week that his league deserved 2 bids: 1 for No. 12 Miami arsenic the league’s highest-ranked team, the different for the Duke-Virginia victor arsenic the league’s champion.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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