A familiar college football broadcast team will be on the call for Saturday’s ACC Championship Game at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte when the Clemson Tigers take on the SMU Mustangs with a berth in the College Football Playoff at stake.
ESPN’s No. 2 broadcast crew of Sean McDonough and Greg McElroy will have the call of Clemson vs. SMU, the network announced Monday. Molly McGrath will report from the sidelines. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. ET. The game will be televised on ABC.
McDonough and McElroy have been the most frequent TV announcers on Clemson games this season. Saturday will mark the fourth time the pair have called a Clemson football game in 2024.
Additionally, Clemson-SMU will be broadcast nationally on ESPN Radio, the network also announced Monday. The broadcast team of Marc Kestecher (play-by-play), Kelly Stouffer (analyst) and Ian Fitzsimmons (sideline) will have the national radio call.
Radio coverage for Saturday’s game will also be carried on SiriusXM Channel 193, featuring the Clemson Athletic Network crew of Don Munson, Tim Bourret and Reggie Merriweather.
Clemson (9-3 overall, 7-1 ACC) fell 17-14 to South Carolina on Saturday at Memorial Stadium in what looked to be a final blow to the Tigers’ College Football Playoff hopes. Hours later, Dabo Swinney’s team clinched a spot in the ACC Championship Game when the Miami Hurricanes (10-2, 6-2) lost 42-38 at Syracuse.
SMU (11-1, 8-0) clinched a berth in the ACC title game on Nov. 23 when the Mustangs defeated Virginia, 33-7, in Charlottesville. Coach Rhett Lashlee’s team, led by dual-threat quarterback Kevin Jennings, defeated Cal, 38-6, last Saturday in Dallas.
The winner of Saturday’s ACC Championship Game will be a near lock to receive a first-round bye and a spot in the quarterfinal round of the playoffs at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta on Jan. 1, 2025.
Clemson is in search of its eighth ACC title under Dabo Swinney — and its first since the Tigers won six straight conference championships from 2015-2020. Clemson fell five spots to No. 17 in this week’s US LBM Coaches Poll. SMU moved up two spots to No. 7.
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