Here are our ACC quarterback rankings for 2024, with projected starters.
We are still some time away from the start of the 2024 college football season, but that doesn’t stop us from looking ahead.
Today, we are looking at the ACC starting quarterbacks for 2024 and ranking them ahead of the season. This is just a preview, as it is still many months from the season, and things can change fast. While every team doesn’t have a starting quarterback on paper, we are making projections on these starters based on what we know right now.
The ACC is a bit different now, with the addition of new programs and new faces to the conference. Try not to get mad with these, they’re subjective! That said, here are our ACC starting quarterback rankings heading into the 2024 season.
A look at each ACC team’s returning production for the upcoming 2024 season.
Forecasting which teams will rise to greatness in college football in any given season can prove challenging. However, a key indicator often lies in the roster’s returning players.
From seasoned fifth-year senior linebackers to up-and-coming junior quarterbacks, the presence of experienced athletes opting to continue with their respective programs can significantly bolster a team’s competitive advantage. This continuity becomes particularly crucial as other teams contend with talent depletion due to NFL draft selections, transfers, or eligibility regulations.
Here is a look at Clemson football’s entire 2024 schedule.
After a long wait, we finally have a complete look at the Clemson football team’s 2024 schedule.
While we have known who the Tigers will be facing for some time, we now have the date and week for each game. Times are yet to be determined, as many factors go into the time choices for each game. Even so, we know what week each game will take place, so Clemson fans can now plan accordingly.
With the release of the schedule, we put together a week-by-week schedule of our own for you to see who Clemson will face each week and where it will be. Take a look at Clemson’s complete 2024 schedule below.
The ACC has some strong teams heading into the 2024 season, according to ESPN’s SP+.
The 2024 college football season is months away, but we all know that football remains on the mind throughout the offseason.
Early rankings have been released all over the place, with ESPN’s Bill Connelly recently releasing the preseason ESPN SP+ rankings ($$$) for the 2024 season. These SP+ rankings consider multiple key factors regarding a football team, including returning production, recent recruiting, and recent history. A strong model; here is a bit more of what Connelly had to say about the rankings.
“It’s a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. It is a predictive measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football, not a résumé ranking. Along those same lines, these projections aren’t intended to be a guess at what the AP Top 25 will look like at the end of the season. These are simply early offseason power rankings based on the information we have been able to gather to date.”
Straightforward and to the point, these are power rankings based on what we know right now. So, how do Clemson and the rest of the ACC stack up in the first SP+ rankings for 2024? Check it out below.
Here is a look at every ACC team’s final 2024 recruiting class ranking.
Dabo Swinney and the Clemson coaching staff showcased their recruiting prowess in the 2024 class, adding considerable talent to their roster. However, the burning question remains: how does Clemson’s recruiting effort compare to other ACC powerhouses following National Signing Day?
Today, we delve into the post-National Signing Day landscape, dissecting each ACC football team’s 2024 recruiting team ranking according to 247Sports. While Clemson remains a formidable force in ACC recruiting circles, they find themselves not at the summit for this particular recruiting cycle. Another program is poised for a significant resurgence, and the 2024 class appears to be the catalyst for their potential return to past glory.
From perennial ACC contenders to emerging teams within the conference, let’s examine the 2024 recruiting team ranking for each ACC program, shedding light on the evolving dynamics within the conference.
Former Clemson tight end Sage Ennis is staying in the ACC.
A former Clemson tight end has announced his new home and it is in the ACC with a familiar face to the program.
Sage Ennis took to social media to announce that he is transferring to Virginia. He joins former Clemson defensive coordinator and current Cavaliers head coach Tony Elliott’s squad.
Originally committed to Florida A&M, Ennis is making a change after staff changes at A&M. Former Florida A&M head coach and former Tiger Willie Simmons has moved on to be running backs coach at Duke, leading to Ennis searching for a new team.
Playing in 41 games for the Tigers, Ennis totaled six catches for 77 yards, but stats don’t truly tell his impact. Ennis is an excellent blocker, putting together some great tape as a blocking tight end. His impact was felt in the Clemson running game. A torn ACL ended his season early after earning solid reps in the Tigers’ offense.
Here is a full look at how the ACC stands in team recruiting rankings after early signing day.
Early signing day was, as it should be for every college football program nationwide, a very busy day.
High school players across the country signed their national letters of intent and secured the next step in their football careers as they prepare to join their new teams. The ACC had some good success on early signing day, with multiple ACC programs landing in the top 25 of class team rankings following the day.
So, how does the ACC stack up against each other? That’s what we’re going to take a look at today. Here is a look at every ACC team’s 2024 team recruiting ranking according to 247Sports following early signing day.
Phoebus High School certainly ran wild on Friday night.
We’re hoping that the mascot for Phoebus High School doesn’t have to do push-ups following every point scored. If so, they better serve protein drinks and Red Bulls at the snack shop.
That will be one tired mascot.
That’s because Phoebus (Hampton, Virginia) beat Jamestown (Williamsburg, Virginia) by a 104-0 score line. Did the scoreboard actually have enough room for triple-digit points?
The highlight tape from Phoebus High School on Friday night might run out of film.
It is another dominating performance from Phoebus as they have shut out their opponent in six of their last seven games. They also have scored 122 points in their previous three games.
Now they’ve scored 226 points in their last four games.
We had some close calls in Week 8, but Virginia ultimately came through to take down a top-10 team on the road.
Week 8 came very close to delivering on a high number of blockbuster upsets, but most of those bids ultimately fell short.
The biggest game of the week — Ohio State vs. Penn State — proved to be a low-scoring affair with the Buckeyes outlasting the Nittany Lions in the defensive battle. But that proved to be far from the most compelling game on the slate.
Both Oklahoma and Texas survived scares against conference newcomers in UCF and Houston, respectively. The former staved off a late two-point attempt and an onside kick that was very nearly successful, while the latter nearly squandered a 21-0 lead against a coach on the hot seat.
Top-five teams in Florida State and Washington both overcame second-half deficits with FSU pulling away from a banged-up Duke team and the Huskies sleepwalking to a one-possession win against a bad Arizona State team.
By far the most shocking result of the weekend was previously 1-5 Virginia’s emotional win on the road against an undefeated North Carolina team that ranked No. 10.
We’re already approaching the final weekend of October, and the College Football Playoff race is becoming clear with the first rankings set to be released following Week 9. As we prepare for crunch time in the season, here are the winners and losers from Week 8.
Zac Yarbrough is committed to sharing his experience with the disease and raising awareness.
Zac Yarbrough had his left hand draped over the top of his steering wheel. The tattoo just before his thumb — “Don’t give up. Don’t EVER give up.” — periodically caught his eye.
Last Thursday, he was headed to Charlottesville, Virginia, the city that had been his home for four years as he played his way to All-ACC accolades as an offensive lineman from 2001 to 2004 with the University of Virginia. Yarbrough’s return to Charlottesville was twofold: October 7 was Homecomings at UVA as the Cavaliers faced William & Mary, a game the Cavaliers dedicated to breast cancer awareness.
Yarbrough, 42, is a big dude that loves fishing, has a huge beard and got in the trenches on the football field. Still an active guy, he was swimming with his daughters when he discovered a small knot near his nipple. He thought nothing of it, but that small knot grew rapidly. So did his concern. In 2019, Yarbrough was diagnosed with cancer. Breast cancer.
“When I first found my initial little tumor, I knew nothing about male breast cancer, so that’s why I let it kind of go on for a couple of months before going in and getting it checked,” Yarbrough told For the Win over a phone call during that drive to Charlottesville. “If I had known it existed at all, I would have gotten in a lot earlier and figured out if it was benign or cancerous or what.”
By the time his diagnosis came through, he was at Stage IV and had to act quickly. Within a six-day span, Yarbrough had his first mammogram, a radical mastectomy and 11 lymph nodes removed.
Immediately, support poured in for Yarbrough, who now lives in Jacksonville, Florida, as he started the difficult journey ahead. The first call he received was from his former coach at Virginia, Al Groh. Another one of those early calls was from former teammate Marques Hagans and his wife, Lauren.
Lauren — along with Marques and their two sons — ended up being a huge support system for Yarbrough through this treatment journey as she dealt with her own battle against breast cancer in late 2018 and into 2019.
“Marques and I are honored to love and support Zac in his relentless fight against breast cancer. He was a selfless and protective teammate to Marques and has been an incredible friend to both of us,” Lauren told FTW via text message. “His fighting spirit is both contagious and inspiring. We are so proud of his example and grateful for his willingness to spread awareness about a very tough disease.”
Yarbrough said he realized he could sit around and feel sorry for himself, or he could do something productive. Soon after his diagnosis, Yarbrough was watching the ESPYs when he found himself sucked into the iconic speech from former N.C. State men’s basketball coach Jim Valvano.
He was familiar with Jim Valvano’s 1993 speech, but hearing it this time hit a little closer to home. This new connection with the speech inspired the tattoo on his left hand, now serving as a daily reminder in his battle.
“I had always heard his speech before, but I never really listened to it,” Yarbrough explained. “That really just kind of changed my mindset and attitude of his perspective of life, his approach every single day, trying to maximize every single opportunity.”
This new connection with the speech is what led to that tattoo on his left hand that now serves as a daily reminder in his battle.
And Yarbrough has been a man of his word. Despite getting chemotherapy every 21 days as part of his current treatment, Yarbrough has stayed positive. He’s worked with the V Foundation to share his story and attempt to reach more men about the very real risks that exist.
Part of that journey took him back to his alma mater during the 2022 football season, speaking to the team at the behest of Virginia head coach Tony Elliott.
“He’s part of the brotherhood,” Elliott said from the podium following the Cavaliers’ win on Saturday. “It’s a great opportunity for him to pour into this generation by being present, having a chance to address them and speak. He’s got a unique story, [one] that can really open up some people’s eyes and give people a different perspective on breast cancer. I know it’s very rare to have it in males but he’s one of the survivors dealing with it.”
Players like defensive back Coen King took Yarbrough’s visit to heart last year as someone whose been directly affected by the disease.
“What I most remember about [Yarbrough’s 2022 talk] is you really don’t meet a lot of males — or personally I haven’t met many — that are affected by breast cancer. I just remember he was so lively. He had a great energy that he brought,” King recalled on Saturday.
“My mom was affected by it back in 2016. It just goes hand-in-hand how I feel about it, how I feel about him, and I’m glad he was able to talk to us.”
Yarbrough recently received good news in his treatment, but he has a long way to go. He never wanted to be in this position — and some days he feels tired just like anyone else — but that’s when he can take a quick glance at his left hand.
“We’ve all been affected by it one way or another whether it’s personally, a family member, a friend. We all know somebody. So having that community together or getting a call from other people fighting cancer right now is huge,” Yarbrough explains.
“Helping each other through those battles and comparing side effects, things like that, I think goes a long way. So the bigger the community the better.”
