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An ACC team and an SEC team squared off in the national championship for the fourth time in five years, but where did those conferences rank in the grand scheme of the 2019 college football season?

That's right. One final ranking before we can shift gears to what lies ahead for next year.

There's no unanimously agreed-upon method for ranking conferences. Some would say it depends on head-to-head results between the leagues. Others would argue it should come down to which one produces the best candidate—or the most candidates—to win the national championship. Maybe you prefer to think the best conference is the one with the fewest numbers of terrible teams in the basement.

But I like to take the hypothetical round-robin approach—i.e., which conference should end up with the best record if every team from one league played every team from another league. It combines the championship and basement schools of thought and factors in head-to-head results that we actually did get to see.

Regardless of your methodology, I think we can all agree the ACC needs to do better next year if it wants people to occasionally watch Clemson games during the regular season.

Conferences are ranked in ascending order of overall strength.