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I don't think it's that hard to figure. Win the ACC, play in or at least be in the hunt for the playoffs, and have enough coming back the for the proceeding seasons to know the success will carry on.

We lost to Washington because Butch and Coker prepped and called an absolutely abysmal game. Some awfull officiating as well, but our coaches did not have their best game.

I would counter some of that. Our greatest teams ever had some nail-biter wins against meh teams. Even in 2001 we needed Mike Rumph's knee to survive a mediocre BC team and an Ernest Wilford drop to survive an okay VT team. Close wins are wins. In 2017 we ran out of gas and our mediocre QB...

No we weren't. We were still young on defense and OL. We had elite playmakers on offense but we were still finding our way. Reed and Buchanan and Rumph were still just proto versions of what they'd become. There's no way you can tell me Dorsey leads that team to a championship. They were on...

I think it's fair to say it was a glimpse into some better days ahead but it was hardly a statement that we were suddenly elite.. Also UCLA was a very good team but a bit of a paper tiger that year. Their defense was awful.

Was it? We got demolished by Syracuse the very week before so honestly it seemed more like a fluke. And then in '99 we blew very winnable games vs ECU and PSU and got blown out by VT so we weren't "back" at all. Again it's almost never one game.

I think you answered your own question. It's never a singular game, as the 99' kickoff classic and 2017 ND game show. It has to persist. To that end I do think the 2000 FSU game got the program over a psychological hump and paved the runway for the next few years of dominance.