Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney joined “The Jim Rome Show” this week and was asked about the overall talent and depth in the ACC, which currently has four teams ranked in the top 25 – all from the Atlantic Division (Clemson, No. 5 AP Top 25, No. 5 …
Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney joined “The Jim Rome Show” this week and was asked about the overall talent and depth in the ACC, which currently has four teams ranked in the top 25 — all from the Atlantic Division (Clemson, No. 5 AP Top 25, No. 5 Coaches Poll; NC State, No. 14 AP, No. 14 Coaches Poll; Wake Forest, No. 15 AP, No. 15 Coaches Poll; Syracuse, No. 22 AP, No. 21 Coaches Poll).
“It’s strong. It really is, especially the Atlantic,” Swinney said. “It’s the year of the quarterback. There’s a bunch of quarterbacks in the ACC this year that you’re gonna see playing on Sunday – a bunch of them – and it seems like we play one every week. There’s just a lot of guys, man, and I think a very competitive group. So, a lot of talent, a lot of guys I think will be drafted out of the ACC this year.”
Swinney’s Tigers have already beaten a couple of the ACC’s best quarterbacks in Wake Forest’s Sam Hartman and NC State’s Devin Leary, but Swinney pointed out that Clemson still has to face other top signal-callers in the conference such as Boston College’s Phil Jurkovec, Florida State’s Jordan Travis, Syracuse’s Garrett Shrader and Louisville’s Malik Cunningham.
“Wake Forest is a team that doesn’t get a lot of credit. I mean, they got a bunch of fifth- and sixth-year seniors, and NC State, that bunch we just played, same thing – a bunch of really good veteran guys on both sides,” Swinney said.
“That quarterback, Leary, is a great player. We’re getting ready to play Jurkovec. He’s a great player. We’ve got to go down to Florida State and play their quarterback. Louisville’s got a great quarterback. Syracuse has a great quarterback. It just seems like everybody we play has a dude, and when you’ve got a quarterback, you’ve got a chance to win against anyone. So, I think the league is very competitive and anything can happen any week, so you better show up and be ready.”
Clemson (5-0, 3-0 ACC) is set to take on Boston College (2-3, 1-2) on Saturday in Chestnut Hill, Mass. The game is scheduled to kick off at 7:30 p.m. on ABC.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference and Durham Bulls have announced that the ACC Baseball Championship will return to Durham Bulls Athletic Park in 2023. The 12-team tournament will be held next May 23-28. The city of …
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference and Durham Bulls have announced that the ACC Baseball Championship will return to Durham Bulls Athletic Park in 2023. The 12-team tournament will be held next May 23-28.
The city of Durham has hosted the ACC Baseball Championship 12 times previously, including seven of the past 13 tournaments. The tournament single-game attendance record of 11,329 was set in 2013 at DBAP (North Carolina versus NC State) and still stands as the largest crowd ever to view a college baseball game in the state of North Carolina.
The Bull City also played host to the second-largest crowd ever to watch a tournament championship game (9,759 for Florida State versus NC State in 2015).
“There’s terrific excitement surrounding our return to Durham for the 2023 ACC Baseball Championship,” said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D. “Our teams and fans always appreciate the first-class experience at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, and we’ve not only set attendance records, but have enjoyed some of the most exciting games in the history of the ACC Baseball Championship. The Durham Bulls are amazing partners, and we are looking forward to another outstanding event.”
“We are proud to once again partner with the ACC to bring its baseball championship to Durham Bulls Athletic Park and the Triangle to showcase the best college baseball in the country,” said Durham Bulls Vice President Mike Birling. “The DBAP has hosted many memorable moments in ACC Championship history, and we look forward to continuing that in 2023.”
“Each championship event is a unique opportunity to showcase Durham as a championship hub, particularly when such a premier event returns for a remarkable 13th time,” said Marcus Manning, executive director of the Durham Sports Commission. “It’s also a demonstration of the Durham Bulls’ leadership and continued commitment to hosting events that have a wide-ranging impact on Durham and the Triangle area. The DSC is very excited to have this event back in Durham.”
Durham Bulls Athletic Park has played host to the ACC Baseball Championship 10 times previously, most recently in 2019. The total attendance of 64,140 for the 2015 Championship was the third largest in tournament history.
Durham Athletic Park, the Bulls’ previous home venue, welcomed the ACC Championship in 1984 and 1986. The 2023 tournament will be the ACC’s 49th Baseball Championship and the 25th played in the state of North Carolina.
The 10,000-seat Durham Bulls Athletic Park, located in downtown Durham, can be accessed from the Durham Freeway. The ballpark reflects many characteristics of old-time parks and the historic downtown Durham architecture. A 32-foot-high wall stands in left field 305 feet from home plate, resembling Fenway Park’s Green Monster. The Blue Monster, as it’s called in Durham, contains a similar old-style manual scoreboard.
A roof covers approximately 2,500 seats behind home plate and down both the first and third base lines to the end of each dugout. All seats at the DBAP are extra wide with seat backs and extra leg room. More than 95 percent of the seats have cup holders. The stadium was designed and built so that every seat gives fans a great view of the field with an intimate ballpark feel.
The ballpark’s most distinctive feature is the Snorting Bull which stands tall above the Blue Monster. This Bull was modeled after the bull used in the 1988 film, Bull Durham.
Next spring’s ACC Baseball Championship will again showcase some of the top talent in all of Division I. Nine ACC teams earned spots in the 2022 NCAA Championship field, one shy of the league record and tying for the most of any conference last season. The ACC has placed at least six teams in the NCAA tournament for 18 straight years.
Additionally, the ACC has placed at least one team in each of the last 16 College World Series, including Notre Dame in 2022.
Fifty-eight ACC players were selected in the 2022 Major League Baseball Draft, including seven on opening night. It marked the 31st consecutive year at least one ACC player was selected in the opening round and the seventh straight year the ACC placed at least one draftee among the top 15 picks.
Ticket information on the 2023 ACC Baseball Championship at Durham Bulls Athletic Park will be forthcoming.
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Following Clemson’s double-overtime win over Wake Forest in Saturday’s top-25 matchup in Winston-Salem, a few ACC analysts weighed in on DJ Uiagalelei’s stellar performance and gave their takeaways from the Tigers’ thrilling 51-45 victory. On “The …
Following Clemson’s double-overtime win over Wake Forest in Saturday’s top-25 matchup in Winston-Salem, a few ACC analysts weighed in on DJ Uiagalelei’s stellar performance and gave their takeaways from the Tigers’ thrilling 51-45 victory.
On “The ACC Huddle” on ACC Network, former Miami and Georgia head coach and current ACCN analyst Mark Richt was asked what he learned about Uiagalelei during his incredible afternoon against the Demon Deacons.
Clemson’s junior quarterback completed 26-of-41 passes for a season-high 371 passing yards and a career-high five touchdown passes while racking up 423 yards of total offense (371 passing, 52 rushing) to lead the Tigers to their 14th victory in a row over Wake Forest.
“He looked like the DJ U everybody got excited about when he lit up Notre Dame a couple years ago,” Richt said, referring to Uiagalelei’s epic game against the Irish as a true freshman in 2020, when he went 29-of-44 passing for 439 yards and threw two touchdown passes to go with a rushing score.
“That’s what he looked like, and it’s just so awesome to see him play the way he played. … It’s just great that Dabo and the rest of the staff stuck with him, and now it’s paying off.”
Against Wake Forest, Uiagalelei became the first Clemson player to throw for 300 or more yards, rush for 50 or more yards and throw at least three touchdowns in a game since Deshaun Watson accomplished the feat against Louisville on Oct. 1, 2016.
ACCN analyst EJ Manuel was impressed by the way Uiagalelei went toe-to-toe with Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman and helped the Tigers’ offense repeatedly punch back in response to the points put up by the Demon Deacons’ high-powered attack.
Clemson quarterback DJ Uiagalelei (5) and running back Will Shipley (1) during the third quarter at Truist Field in Winston-Salem Saturday, September 24, 2022. Bart Boatwright/The Clemson Insider
“DJ played like ‘Big Cinco’ (Saturday). No ‘Little Cinco’,” said Manuel, the former Florida State and NFL quarterback. “He’s playing like a big dog, man. But you’ve got to do it when you play against a Sam Hartman at quarterback. You know Sam can light up the scoreboard, whether he’s throwing the ball, running the ball, making plays. But DJ was answering every single time, and there were moments when they could’ve packed up and said hey, Wake got us – you know, we’re on the road, it’s a hostile environment. But he kept delivering.”
ACCN analyst Eddie Royal, the former Virginia Tech standout and longtime NFL wide receiver, pointed out that Uiagalelei got more help Saturday from his receivers.
Four different players (Joseph Ngata, 84; Jake Briningstool, 72; Beaux Collins, 60; Antonio Williams, 51) gained 50-plus receiving yards against Wake Forest, marking Clemson’s first game with four different 50-yard receivers since 2018 against South Carolina (Tee Higgins, 142; Hunter Renfrow, 80; Justyn Ross, 58; Derion Kendrick, 51).
“The receivers stepped up,” Royal said. “DJ had been playing similar to this all year long, it’s just the receivers weren’t making the plays. They stepped up big for him and made the plays, so it’s good to see.”
Richt gave a shoutout to Clemson sophomore running back Will Shipley, who rushed 20 times for 104 yards with a touchdown against the Demon Deacons.
Shipley has now rushed for 100 yards in consecutive games for the second time in his career and has now rushed for a touchdown in seven straight games, dating to last season. Shipley (1,091) surpassed 1,000 career rushing yards with a career-long 53-yard rush in the first quarter and scored on a 1-yard touchdown run on an impressive second effort in the fourth quarter.
“I’ve got to give props to Shipley, too,” Richt said. “Shipley took care of business. He did break out on a deep run. Little surprised he got caught. But then in the end zone area, he busted through some tacklers and made a touchdown run.”
Up next for fifth-ranked Clemson (4-0, 2-0 ACC) is a top-10 clash with No. 10 NC State this Saturday at Death Valley (7:30 p.m., ABC).
Royal was asked if he saw anything in the Wake Forest game that made him question whether the Tigers are a College Football Playoff-caliber team, or if Saturday’s game furthered his belief that they can make it into the four-team playoff field.
“It furthered my belief because everybody was worried about the quarterback position, and DJ stepped up (Saturday),” Royal said. “And like you said, Shipley stepped up as well, so they were balanced. DJ didn’t have to do it all. Shipley did enough as well. They’ve got three running backs that can get it done as well. … So, this is a complete offense, and we know that defense is gonna step up.”
“I felt like if DJ played like that, no one can be close to Clemson,” Richt added. “But Wake proved me wrong, too.”
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It wasn’t an easy decision, to hear Jim Phillips describe it. But the ACC commissioner as well as the league’s board of directors thought it was necessary. After seven decades in Greensboro – the only home the ACC has ever known – the conference is …
It wasn’t an easy decision, to hear Jim Phillips describe it. But the ACC commissioner as well as the league’s board of directors thought it was necessary.
After seven decades in Greensboro – the only home the ACC has ever known – the conference is relocating its offices to Charlotte. It’s a move that became official Tuesday after the ACC announced last year that it was considering a move.
It won’t happen immediately. The league will use the 2022-23 academic year as a transition period to complete the move from Greensboro, which has housed the league’s headquarters since 1953. Phillips said the ACC also made a handful of trips to Orlando, another finalist for the relocation.
In the end, though, Charlotte – a city that already hosts a number of league championship events, including the ACC football title game – made the most sense for a conference looking to increase its visibility within the landscape of college athletics.
“This decision is focused on the future of the ACC and best positioning the ACC for long-term success,” Phillips said.
In a news release sent out Tuesday morning, the league cited its partnership with Newmark, a commercial real-estate services firm, that helped lead a “data-drive comparison and evaluation” used to make the relocation decision by the league’s board, which represents all 15 of the ACC’s member institutions. Phillips detailed in a conference call with media members later exactly what data was taken into consideration, including Charlotte’s growing population, a large airport easily accessible for all of its schools and a “forward-facing brand opportunity.”
“We have right around 80,000 ACC graduates that live in the Charlotte region,” Phillips said. “It’s home to nearly 500 global and regional headquarters in the city-land area. So those are part of the data-driven as well as other elements that were deeply considered by the board and by myself.”
North Carolina reportedly sweetened its bid to keep the league in state by recently earmarking $15 million for the conference in its proposed operating budget. In order to receive those funds, though, the ACC has to keep its headquarters there for at least 15 more years and hold more than 20 postseason events by 2034 that aren’t already scheduled to be hosted by the state, including additional men’s and women’s basketball tournaments and baseball tournaments.
“The state was incredibly neutral to where the conference office would be located,” Phillips said. “It just did not want to see it leave the state.”
Asked if the ACC will be able to meet those requirements in order to receive that additional revenue, Phillips said there will be ”no hesitancy at all.”
Some of those future basketball tournaments will be required to be held in Greensboro, where the Greensboro Coliseum has hosted the men’s tournament more than any other venue. The men’s tournament will return to Greensboro in 2023 after being played in Brooklyn earlier this year.
Phillips said it’s not the conference’s intention to forget about the Gate City when it comes to hosting various postseason events in the future, adding it’s been a “phenomenal home” for championships in multiple sports.
“Just because the physical placement of the office is in a different location doesn’t at all necessarily impact the opportunity that Greensboro will have,” Phillips said. “I think you’re going to continue to see Greensboro in that rotation as we look into the future.”
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During ABC’s broadcast of Florida State’s 24-23 win over LSU on Sunday night, college football analyst and color commentator Greg McElroy weighed in on Clemson and the Atlantic Coast Conference. Play-by-play commentator Joe Tessitore asked the …
During ABC’s broadcast of Florida State’s 24-23 win over LSU on Sunday night, college football analyst and color commentator Greg McElroy weighed in on Clemson and the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Play-by-play commentator Joe Tessitore asked the former Alabama quarterback what his expectations for the Tigers are this season.
“I think they’re going to be really good,” McElroy said. “I think that defense is more athletic than they’ve been in recent years. I am curious how they’re going to replace the coordinators, but everything I’ve heard about their staff, everyone raves about the hires that Dabo Swinney made. So, I think Clemson bounces back in a big way this year. I’m just most interested in who is going to be the quarterback. Is it (DJ) Uiagalelei, or will it be the freshman down the road, Cade Klubnik?”
ACC teams went 9-3 in Week 1, with the only losses being Virginia Tech’s defeat at Old Dominion, Boston College’s home loss to Rutgers and Louisville’s road loss to ACC foe Syracuse.
Speaking on the state of the ACC, McElroy opined that he doesn’t believe the gap between Clemson and the rest of the conference is “as wide” as some of Saturday’s games — such as UNC and NC State’s narrow wins over App State and East Carolina, respectively — might make it seem like.
“I think the ACC as a whole, even though there were a couple scares (Saturday) in the Carolinas, looks like FSU is an improved football team, Pitt weathered the storm on Thursday (vs. West Virginia) remarkably well,” he said. “So, I wonder just how wide that gap is between Clemson and everybody else in the ACC. Because I don’t think it’s as wide as some of the outcomes (Saturday) might suggest.”
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During The Herbies Preseason Special on ESPN recently, ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit gave his picks for conference winners for the 2022 season. Rece Davis asked Herbstreit if, in his mind, Clemson is again the favorite to win the ACC …
During The Herbies Preseason Special on ESPN recently, ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit gave his picks for conference winners for the 2022 season.
Rece Davis asked Herbstreit if, in his mind, Clemson is again the favorite to win the ACC this season.
Herbstreit then explained why he’s picking Clemson to beat Miami in the conference title game.
“You’re banking on Dabo Swinney, his recruiting, his defense,” Herbstreit said. “Remember, lost his offensive coordinator, Tony Elliott, to UVA as the head coach, loses his defensive coordinator, Brent Venables, to Oklahoma, who’s now a head coach. So, he has a couple new coordinators. Remember last year, DJ Uiagalelei, we were waiting to see him emerge. Never quite did.
“But I still think you’ve got to give Dabo the edge. They’ve got a tough game against NC State, but it’s at home, October 1st. They play Miami, November 19th. I think they’ll rematch and play Miami again in the ACC Championship in Charlotte.”
Clemson, which finished the 2021 season 10-3 (6-2 ACC), kicks off its 2022 slate on Monday against Georgia Tech at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta (8 p.m., ESPN).
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During ESPN’s College GameDay show this past weekend, the GameDay crew made their picks for who they think will win the ACC in 2022. Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and David Pollack all went with Clemson to claim the conference crown, while Desmond …
During ESPN’s College GameDay show this past weekend, the GameDay crew made their picks for who they think will win the ACC in 2022.
Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and David Pollack all went with Clemson to claim the conference crown, while Desmond Howard was the lone analyst to pick Pittsburgh as the conference title winner this season.
Here’s what Corso, Herbstreit, Howard and Pollack had to say regarding their picks:
Corso: “Clemson plays Miami, and Clemson wins. Offense, can you believe it? Clemson’s offense wins it.”
Herbstreit: “I’m right there with ya, Coach — exact same matchup in Charlotte. I got Miami and I’ve got Clemson in a rematch. They play in November, so that’d be a rematch, and I’ve got Clemson. I think ole Dabo is gonna have an angry football team this year. So, I like Clemson to win the ACC.”
Howard: “I think they’re going to be angry, but I’m going with Coach (Pat) Narduzzi, his defense and Kedon Slovis now at quarterback for Pitt. So, I’ve got Pitt winning the ACC. Second year in a row for the Pitt Panthers.”
Pollack: “That defensive line is legit. I’m going with Clemson in the big bounceback, too.”
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During The ACC Huddle: Season Preview show on ACC Network recently, a few ACCN analysts gave their predictions for which teams will represent the Atlantic and Coastal Divisions in the ACC Championship Game this season. Former Clemson and All-ACC …
During The ACC Huddle: Season Preview show on ACC Network recently, a few ACCN analysts gave their predictions for which teams will represent the Atlantic and Coastal Divisions in the ACC Championship Game this season.
Former Clemson and All-ACC offensive lineman Eric Mac Lain picked Clemson and Pittsburgh as the ACC Championship Game matchup, with the Tigers winning the conference crown, while former Miami and Georgia head coach Mark Richt picked Clemson and Miami to play in the conference title game.
Former Florida State quarterback EJ Manuel did not pick Clemson to make it to the conference title game, however. Instead, he went with NC State to win the Atlantic and play Pittsburgh.
Here’s what Mac Lain, Manuel and Richt had to say regarding their ACC Championship Game matchup predictions and who will win the Atlantic and Coastal Divisions in 2022:
Mac Lain: “I think it’s return of the king. I think Clemson’s back. So, I think they’re going to be representing the Atlantic. I think they win it, but I think Pittsburgh’s going to make it tough. I think Pittsburgh is going to be representing back-to-back divisional champions, the last-ever Coastal. So, I’ve got Clemson and Pitt. I’ve got Clemson winning it.”
Manuel: “Yeah, I’m going Pitt from the Coastal. I think no matter which quarterback they decide to have (Kedon Slovis has since been named Pitt’s starting QB), that defense is going to be stout. They’re going to have enough playmakers around there, a three-headed monster at running back. The Atlantic side, I’m going NC State. I think (quarterback) Devin Leary’s going to do it. I think he’s going to have an excellent season. That defense is also primed and ready to go, too.”
Richt: “Two coaches I love – Narduzzi (Pitt’s Pat Narduzzi) and Doeren (NC State’s Dave Doeren). I’m doing this to help motivate their teams. I’m picking Clemson and Miami. I’m just giving them something to get mad about. They always want a chip on their shoulder, they want to be hunting instead of being the hunted. So here’s your fodder, coaches. Use it the way you want, baby.”
The 2022 ACC Championship Game will kick off at 8 p.m. on ABC on Saturday, Dec. 3, at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte.
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During ACC Network’s new daily studio show, ACC PM, Mark Packer gave his conference predictions for the upcoming season. Packer is picking Clemson and Miami to win the Atlantic and Coastal Divisions, respectively, and he’s going with the Tigers to …
During ACC Network’s new daily studio show, ACC PM, Mark Packer gave his conference predictions for the upcoming season.
Packer is picking Clemson and Miami to win the Atlantic and Coastal Divisions, respectively, and he’s going with the Tigers to win the conference title.
Packer also talked about what he thinks is likely the biggest game in the ACC this season — Clemson’s matchup against NC State on Oct. 1 at Death Valley, where the Tigers ride a 34-game winning streak entering the 2022 campaign and where the Wolfpack haven’t won since 2002.
In the contest against NC State, Clemson will be looking to avenge its 27-21, double-overtime loss in Raleigh last September.
“I’m going to pick Clemson for two reasons — number one, they catch Wake Forest early, and I don’t know about Sam Hartman,” Packer said. “Even with Sam Hartman on the field, that’s still going to be an uphill climb. It’s what, 13 straight, I think, Clemson’s beaten Wake. So, Hartman early, even if he hasn’t played, to see that defensive line, good luck.
“And NC State, I think this is Dave Doeren’s best team, and if there’s going to be a time for NC State, it’s now. But man, you’ve got to win at Clemson, and I’ve got to see that to believe it. They are just so good at home. 34 straight at home… But I’ve got to see it to believe it, and I think NC State beating them last year is great for the Wolfpack’s psyche. But even though they dominated that game, it still was an overtime game, and Clemson at home, coming off last year, ‘hey, we remember that’ — I’ll take Clemson at home. NC State-Clemson, everybody’s circled it, October the 1st, saying, ‘Man, that’s the biggest game in the ACC.’ I think it probably is.”
As for the second-biggest game in the conference this season?
Packer believes it’s defending ACC champion Pittsburgh’s road tilt at Miami on Nov. 26, the final week of the regular season — the game he believes will decide who represents the Coastal in the ACC Championship Game.
“I’m going to tell you what the second-biggest game in the league is — it’s Pitt and Miami, and it’s the last game of the regular season,” Packer said. “I think those are the two best teams in the Coastal Division. I do. No disrespect to Virginia Tech or North Carolina or Georgia Tech or Duke. To me, those are the two best teams.
“And I know Miami has to go to Clemson the week before, which could be a preview (of the ACC Championship Game). In my opinion, it will be. But man, Pittsburgh and Miami, the last weekend in November, just sounds about right for me, for the Coastal. And I do think Clemson and NC State, in my opinion, are the two best teams in the Atlantic.”
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CBS Sports on Monday published its ACC expert picks for 2022, taking a look at the conference and who their experts see as the most overrated and underrated teams, making bold predictions and conference champion picks, and more. One CBS Sports …
CBS Sports on Monday published its ACC expert picks for 2022, taking a look at the conference and who their experts see as the most overrated and underrated teams, making bold predictions and conference champion picks, and more.
One CBS Sports writer, Dennis Dodd, thinks Clemson is the most overrated team in the league.
“The Tigers may indeed win the ACC. Maybe last year was a speed bump, but I really need to see it first,” he wrote. “As well as the defense may perform — and it’s good — Uiagalelei will have to live up to his expectations. If not, well, the ACC is too strong now for the Tigers to be able to slog through mediocrity. Watch out for Wake Forest, NC State, Florida State and Miami. It is unwise to grandfather Clemson into the title game just yet.”
CBS Sports’ Barrett Sallee is on the opposite end of the spectrum from Dodd and believes the Tigers are the most underrated team in the ACC.
“I get it. Uiagalelei did not live up to expectations, and last year’s 10-win season was a ‘down year,'” Sallee wrote. “This is a much different setting, though. DJ-U has rededicated himself, gotten in shape and knows that freshman Cade Klubnik is there should he stumble. That’s a healthy quarterback situation, not a shaky one. When you combine it with the best defensive front four in the country and one of the best running backs in the nation in Will Shipley, you have a recipe for national success, not just ACC dominance.”
Several of CBS Sports’ writers mentioned Clemson in their bold predictions, with the aforementioned Sallee writing that the Tigers will not just make it back to the College Football Playoff but be a “legitimate threat” to win it all this season, while Jerry Palm’s bold prediction is that Clemson will not make the playoff for the second year in a row.
In his bold prediction, Chip Patterson opined that the Tigers’ offense “will bounce back to being one of the best in the league,” and Tom Fornelli predicted that Clemson will average at least 34 points per game this season.
Most of CBS Sports’ writers picked Clemson to be the ACC champion this season. The lone writer who did not is Dodd, who went with Miami.
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