From FBSchedules' 10 college football teams with the biggest increase in schedule strength from 2016 to 2017, here are the ACC teams with huge SoS jumps for 2017:

7. CLEMSON
2016 Overall Record: 14-1
2016 Schedule Rank: 61
2017 Schedule Rank: 21
Defending national champion Clemson’s schedule goes from being rated in the middle of the pack in 2016 to the Top 25 this season. Though there are some concrete differences, the increase also speaks to the growing strength of the ACC Atlantic, which had only one of its teams finish with a losing record in 2016 vs. three in 2015. It also explains why three of the division’s members are included on this list. In non-ACC play, the Tigers repeat with the two Power foes they faced in 2016 – Auburn and South Carolina. The change is they play the Tigers at home and the Gamecocks on the road, where they’ve won just once in four tries. From across the conference in the Coastal, they drop Pitt and pick-up a road trip to Virginia Tech. Though the narrow loss to the Panthers was the sole misstep in 2016, the Hokies should be ranked in the preseason Top 25 and contend for a division title.

T5. WAKE FOREST
2016 Overall Record: 7-6
2016 Schedule Rank: 64
2017 Schedule Rank: 23
Wake Forest’s seven-win mark last season was its best finish since 2008. This year it gains a whopping 41 points in schedule strength, landing just inside the Top 25 toughest slates in the FBS. Not only do the Demon Deacons replace Indiana with Notre Dame in non-conference play, they swap out games vs. Tulane and Army (which have each posted only one winning record in the last five years) with Appalachian State and Utah State (which have each posted double-digit finishes twice in the last five years). From across the ACC in the Coastal, Wake upgrades the home game vs. Virginia it enjoyed last year with a road trip to Georgia Tech.

2. BOSTON COLLEGE
2016 Overall Record: 7-6
2016 Schedule Rank: 68
2017 Schedule Rank: 25
Boston College’s ascension to the Top 25 of schedule strength is all about non-ACC play. Where the Eagles didn’t play a Power opponent outside of its conference slate last season, this year they host Notre Dame which they’ve dropped five-straight games to. Beyond that, they travel to UConn rather than host them in Chestnut Hill and then upgrade FCS Wagner and Buffalo with Northern Illinois and Central Michigan. It amounts to taking an almost guaranteed win and an opponent that lost 10 games last season and replacing them with two teams who’ve both been bowl eligible four out of the last five seasons. It’s also the first time BC hasn’t played a FCS team since 2005.