Behind the scenes at ACC Kickoff

Clemson took center stage at the 2021 ACC Football Kickoff on Thursday when Atlantic Division coaches and players met with the media at the Westin Charlotte. Take a behind-the-scenes look at Clemson’s representatives at the ACC Kickoff in Bart …

Clemson took center stage at the 2021 ACC Football Kickoff on Thursday when Atlantic Division coaches and players met with the media at the Westin Charlotte.

Take a behind-the-scenes look at Clemson’s representatives at the ACC Kickoff in Bart Boatwright’s photo gallery for The Clemson Insider: LINK.

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Bart Boatwright’s Photo Gallery: 2021 ACC Kickoff Day 1

CHARLOTTE – The 2021 ACC Football Kickoff kicked off on Wednesday with Coastal Division coaches and players meeting with media members at The Westin Charlotte. Check out Bart Boatwright’s Photo Gallery for The Clemson Insider from Day 1 of the ACC …

CHARLOTTE — The 2021 ACC Football Kickoff kicked off on Wednesday with Coastal Division coaches and players meeting with media members at The Westin Charlotte.

Check out Bart Boatwright’s Photo Gallery for The Clemson Insider from Day 1 of the ACC Kickoff: LINK.

Time to get the latest Clemson apparel to show your Tiger pride. Order your officially licensed Clemson gear right here!

Two-Minute Drill: Recap of ACC Football Kickoff Coastal Division

The ACC’s Coastal Division players and coaches took center stage on Wednesday at the ACC Football Kickoff at The Westin Charlotte. The Clemson Insider is live from the ACC Football Kickoff. TCI’s Julia Haskins and Brianna Hentschel recap some of the …

The ACC’s Coastal Division players and coaches took center stage on Wednesday at the ACC Football Kickoff at The Westin Charlotte.

The Clemson Insider is live from the ACC Football Kickoff. TCI’s Julia Haskins and Brianna Hentschel recap some of the highlights from the first day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG0_k-kmJK0

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Texas Longhorns all-time record vs. the Atlantic Coast Conference

Today, we will be looking at Texas’ record against the Atlantic Coast Conference, with a bonus! You can see the Horns’ all-time record here:

Today, we will be looking at Texas’ record against the Atlantic Coast Conference, with a bonus! Notre Dame has been included as well, playing all sports but football in the ACC. Even then, Brian Kelly’s squad played a 10 game schedule in 2020 thanks to COVID-19.

Much like the Big Ten, Texas does not have significant history against the conference.

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For a more storied history against the Southeastern Conference, you can check it out here:

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Back to the ACC and Texas’ most played opponent is North Carolina. The two, who share a love for Mack Brown, have faced off nine different times. Most recently in a home and home series in 2001 and 2002.

Three programs have never lined up against the Longhorns, most notably Clemson. Many schools have also only played Texas once, either in a bowl game or a one-off campus visit.

Here is the Texas Longhorns’ all-time record vs teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference:

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey releases statement on conference status

Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey released the following statement on the SEC’s official Twitter account. 

Amidst the turmoil of the college football landscape on Tuesday, after the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences announced that they will be canceling their 2020 fall football schedules, Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey released the following statement on the SEC’s official Twitter account.

“I look forward to learning more about the factors that led to the Big Ten and Pac-12 leadership to take these actions today. I remain comfortable with the thorough and deliberate approach that the SEC and our 14 member schools are taking to support a healthy environment for our student-athletes. We will continue to further refine our policies and protocols for a safe return to sports as we monitor developments around COVID-19 in a continued effort to support, educate and care for our student-athletes every day.”

The Atlantic Coast Conference also released a statement over Twitter about the same time on Tuesday afternoon, which stated the following.

The ACC will continue to make decisions based on medical advice, inclusive of our Medical Advisory Group, local and state health guidelines, and do so in a way that appropriately coincides with our universities’ academic missions.

The safety of our students, staff and overall campus communities will always be our top priority, and we are pleased with the protocols being administrated on our 15 campuses. We will continue to follow our process that has been in place for months and has served us well.

We understand the need to stay flexible and be prepared to adjust as medical information and the landscape evolves.

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Gators News: August 6, 2020

It is Thursday folks, which means we are getting closer to another weekend while we burn away the days until college football returns. 

It is Thursday folks, which means we are getting closer to another weekend while we burn away the days until college football returns.

After the Big Ten announced its 10-game intraconference schedule yesterday, the Atlantic Coast Conference followed suit today by announcing its 11-game intraconference-plus-one schedule for all 15 members, which now includes Notre Dame.

We can expect the SEC to release its schedule anytime now. In the meantime, you can track the schools and their positive tests using this article.  Also, be sure to check out our new feature here at Gators Wire and around the Wires network of sites:

Florida Gators Football: COVID-19 Status Tracker

Around the Swamp

It’s great to be a Florida Gator!

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Betting 101: How to bet on college football for beginners

Looking at the various sports betting options centered around college football, with betting advice, tips and definitions of key terms.

College football is arguably the best sport to bet because data is very accessible yet it’s hard for bookmakers to make sharp lines because there are just so many games. There are 130 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision teams and a typical Saturday slate of college football can include upward of 60 games. Even the sharpest sportsbooks—including BetMGM—have weak spots. Here’s a look at some of the options you have for cashing tickets on college football bets:

College football betting: Ways to bet

Access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list of today’s sports betting odds and lines.

  • Futures: These wagers are for events decided well after the bet has been placed. A Futures bet in college football would be betting on who will win the 2021 College Football National Champion, Big Ten Conference, Heisman Trophy, etc. One of my favorite futures bets are Over/Under team win totals. As in, betting Over Clemson Tigers 11.5 regular-season wins (not an actual line, just an example).
  • Game sides: It’s the most common bet in sports. Which team do you like to win the game and, if necessary, by how many points? You can bet a team to win outright with a moneyline wager or for a team to cover the point spread, at BetMGM‘s listed odds.
  • Game totals: This is a wager on the final score of the game. For instance, you’d bet Over/Under 67.5 total points in USC Trojans at Oregon Ducks. The bettor takes either the Over or the Under on BetMGM‘s listed total. You can also look to bet team totals, which is the line set on how many points a single team is projected to put up. Back to our earlier example, Oregon’s mock team total would be 38 and USC’s is 29.5 for a total of 67.5. Which total would you take in our sample total line?
  • Prop bets: Here is where you wager on smaller occurrences during a college football game, like how many rushing yards a running back will have or an Over/Under for the longest passing play for a team. An example prop bet is “Over/Under 215.5 passing yards for Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence against the Virginia Tech Hokies.”
  • Live betting: BetMGM is listing live odds on the sides and totals throughout a college football game. If you feel like you’ve got the flow of a conference rivalry game down somewhere in the second quarter, make a live bet.
  • Parlay: One of the juicier bets, a parlay is a wager where two or more bets have to win for the ticket to cash. The more bets/teams/totals included in the parlay, the bigger the payout. Bettors like correlated parlays where you bet a team and a total to get a better payout. You could also rip off a four-team parlay by combining games in the 12 p.m. ET, 3 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. ET and 10 p.m. ET slots.

College football betting: Key betting terms to know

  • Moneyline:  These are the odds set by BetMGM on a team to win the game straight up. The moneyline for the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship was LSU Tigers -228 and Clemson Tigers +185. A $228 wager on the LSU -228 moneyline earned a $100 profit when the Tigers beat Clemson, 42-25.
  • Point spread: The line, the points, the spread, the number are all other ways to refer to how many points a team needs to win by or cannot lose by. For example, if the Oklahoma Sooners are -6.5 at the Texas Longhorns then you can wager on Oklahoma and win if the Sooners win by seven or more points. If Texas stays within 6 points in a loss or wins outright, then its side of the bet would win and a bet on Oklahoma would be lost.
  • Over/Under:  This could be used when discussing the total but also for player and game props or futures. It’s as simple as betting the Over or the Under on BetMGM‘s listed odds for let’s say the Pac-12 title game point total or 2020 passing yards for Ohio State QB Justin Fields as a season prop.
  • Push: Tie, chop, drawKiss Your Sister, whatever you want to call it. Sometimes a push feels like a miracle, sometimes it feels like a bad beat but it’s never a loss or a win. It’s just, meh. You get your money back, which I would bet on the Pac-12 Saturday night game.
  • Key numbers: Since touchdowns (seven) and field goals (three) are the most common increment of scores, those are also the biggest key numbers. Ten, 17, 24 are also in this group. You’ll hear “sharps” talk about key numbers in their handicaps—like betting favorites at -2.5 or -6.5 and betting underdogs at +3.5 or +7.5—so familiarize yourself with the lingo, and the math.

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Notre Dame Basketball: Pflueger & Mooney Money in Win at Clemson

It was Pflueger who was out of sorts in a good way who helped paved the way

In an absolute “got to have it” game for Notre Dame basketball Sunday night, veterans John Mooney and Rex Pflueger and John Mooney were nails in the 61-57 Fighting Irish victory.

Mooney did what Mooney does, scoring 16 and pulling down 11 boards en-route to his 19th double-double on the year.

It was Pflueger who was out of sorts in a good way who helped paved the way. The fifth year guard had a season high 18 points while shooting a perfect five-of-five from beyond the arc.

For comparison, Pflueger entered Sunday shooting all of 30% from three.

Clemson was playing without leading scorer and rebounder Aamir Simms who was dealing with the flu. They wound up being led by guards Tevin Mack and Alex Hemenway who each finished with 16.

The Tigers fell to 11-12 overall on the year and 5-8 in ACC play.

Notre Dame won their fourth straight ACC game to improve to 15-8 overall and get back to .500 and 6-6 in the league.

The difficulty scale now gets turned up for Mike Brey and Notre Dame as the Irish return to action Tuesday night in Virginia before a trip to Cameron Indoor Arena and Duke awaits Saturday.