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acc (atlantic coast conference) football - 2024

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ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference) Football - 2024
Duke - North Carolina - Clemson - NC State - Virginia - Georgia Tech - Wake Forest - Miami - Virginia Tech - Florida State - Boston College - Louisville - Syracuse - Pittsburgh- Stanford - California- SMU

Making ACC Debuts
The three new conference members in Cal, SMU, and Stanford will all play their first-ever ACC games at different times throughout the season. Stanford will be the first of the three to play an ACC game, as the Cardinal will play at Syracuse on Friday, Sept. 20, one day before Cal travels to Florida State for its first conference game on Saturday, Sept. 21. SMU’s first-ever ACC game will come at home versus Florida State the following weekend, Saturday, Sept. 28.


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Sources: Former Arkansas QB Jacolby Criswell returns to UNC​


North Carolina's thin quarterback room is getting a familiar addition. Former UNC quarterback Jacolby Criswelll, who spent the 2023 season at Arkansas, is returning to play at North Carolina, sources told ESPN. Criswell began his career at UNC from 2020 to 2022, transferring after getting beat out by Drake Maye to become the starter for the 2022 season. Criswell, who will have two years of eligibility remaining, is a former ESPN 300 recruit who was well regarded by the Tar Heels and their staff. Entering summer camp for UNC in 2022, the quarterback competition was considered a tight race.

UNC recruited Criswell out of Arkansas in the class of 2020, as he was ESPN's No. 10 dual-threat quarterback. He's a bigger quarterback at 6-foot-1, 230 pounds. Criswell enters the 2024 season with appearances in 18 games. He has thrown for 347 yards, rushed for 177 and accounted for 5 TDs in his career. He started the Wofford game in 2021, filling in for the injured Sam Howell, and completed 11 of 19 passes for 125 yards while rushing five times for 66 yards and a touchdown. UNC also has class of 2024 quarterback Michael Merdinger, who committed in May 2023. He has three listed offers from power conference schools. UNC has a four-star commitment from Bryce Baker for the class of 2025.

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s.c. court orders acc to provide clemson with ESPN agreement
A South Carolina court has ordered the Atlantic Coast Conference to turn over documents about its agreements with ESPN that Clemson has requested in its lawsuit against the conference. Clemson sued the ACC in March --filed in South Carolina and claimed the ACC's $140 million exit fee is "unconscionably high" and "unenforceable." Florida State was the first ACC member to sue the league in December.
 

Virginia, NC State to play non-ACC home-and-home football series​


ACC schools Virginia and NC State announced Wednesday they would play a home-and-home series in football that will not count as an official conference game. The schools will play in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Sept. 6, 2025, and in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2026. This marks the second time in recent years that a pair of ACC rivals have scheduled a nonconference series. Wake Forest and North Carolina scheduled games in 2019 and 2021 to keep alive a longtime rivalry that had been off the regular league schedule following conference expansion.

Beginning in 2023, the ACC scrapped division play in an effort to have member schools play each other more frequently, but the league also expanded to 17 teams, adding SMU, Stanford and Cal for the 2024 season. Virginia and NC State have played each other 60 times since their first meeting in 1904, however the rivalry diminished in frequency beginning in 2005. They'd faced off just seven times since and weren't scheduled to play again until 2027.

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Florida State asks NCAA to reduce and rescind NIL penalties​


Florida State has asked the NCAA to reduce and rescind penalties imposed on its football program for NIL-related recruiting violations after the sanctioning body halted investigations into booster-backed collectives. FSU's legal counsel sent a three-page letter to Kay Norton, chairperson of the Division I Committee on Infractions, and requested the committee amend its decision. The letter, dated April 24 and shared with The Associated Press on Friday, referred to NIL-related cases involving Tennessee and Florida. "The university is now disadvantaged by its cooperations and affirmative steps to expedite resolution of the case," the letter read. "Similar or more egregious violations involving prospective student-athletes and other institutions' collectives/boosters occurred during the same time period as the violations in the FSU case and some of those violations were being actively investigated and processed.

FSU agreed to two years of probation, a three-game suspension for the assistant -- offensive coordinator Alex Atkins -- recruiting restrictions, a loss of scholarships and a fine equaling $5,000 plus 1% on the football program's budget. The Seminoles now want the penalties reduced. They believe they should not be fined the 1%, should not be docked a total of five scholarships over the next two academic years and should not face any recruiting restrictions. The NCAA in March stopped investigations into booster-backed collectives or other third parties making NIL compensation deals with Division I athletes. It came a week after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia.

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big 12, acc agree to settle v. ncaa case, sources say
The Big 12 conference became the first named party in the House v. NCAA case to vote to settle that case and related antitrust cases, sources told ESPN, forging a path to a new era in college athletics. The Big 12 was joined later Tuesday by the ACC, whose presidents and chancellors voted to accept the antitrust settlements, including House v. NCAA.
 

NCAA board votes to accept antitrust settlement, sources say​


The NCAA's Board of Governors voted Wednesday evening to agree to settlement terms in the House v. NCAA and related antitrust cases, sources told ESPN, joining three power conferences thus far in moving forward with a historic change for the way college sports are operated.

The Big 12 and ACC voted to accept settlement terms Tuesday, and the Big Ten joined them Wednesday. The remaining two defendants named in the lawsuit -- the SEC and Pac-12 -- are expected to vote to approve the terms as well later this week. The NCAA's board did not vote unanimously Wednesday, a source told ESPN.

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acc revenue up 14% in 2022-23 but still trails big ten. sec
That looming gap is one of the biggest reasons Florida State and Clemson have filed lawsuits against the ACC as they try to navigate their long-term futures.

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Though the ACC trails the Big Ten and SEC in revenue, that did not stop the league from having a banner year in 2022-23. The ACC won nine national titles, more than any other conference, and had teams advance to the Final Four in both men's and women's basketball.
 

UVA to pay $9M related to shooting that killed 3 players​


The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement related to a 2022 campus shooting that killed three football players and wounded two other students, a lawyer representing some of the victims and their families said Friday. But some of the families are calling for more: the immediate release of an independent probe into the shooting that was completed last year. Its focus included efforts by the university to assess the potential threat of the student who was eventually charged with murder as well as recommendations from what was learned. The school in Charlottesville will pay $2 million each to the families of the three students who died, the maximum allowable under Virginia law, according to Wald, who represents the estate of D'Sean Perry. The other two students who died were Devin Chandler and Lavel Davis Jr. The university will pay $3 million total to the two students who were wounded: Mike Hollins, a fourth member of the football team, and Marlee Morgan, who Wald also represents.

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Virginia starts 1.15.41 scholarship in honor of slain football players​


The Virginia Cavaliers have established a memorial scholarship fund in honor of football players Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D'Sean Perry, who were all shot and killed after returning to campus from a field trip in November 2022. The Virginia Athletics Foundation and Virginia Athletics on Tuesday announced the 1.15.41 Memorial Scholarship Fund will annually award scholarships to three football players who "embody the qualities these young men carried with them." The fund was made possible thanks to an anonymous donor who pledged $1 million. Last week, Virginia opened a new football operations center with a tribute to all three players, with a display on the first floor that features their jerseys -- Nos. 1, 15 and 41.

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ncaa 2024: college football realignment tracker
College football in 2024 is going to look different. There's a new 12-team playoff, but there's also 15 teams moving to new conferences.

ACC
The ACC is now 17 schools after adding Cal, SMU and Stanford for the 2024-25 season.
2023 teams: Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest.
2024 teams: Boston College, Cal, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Pittsburgh, SMU, Stanford, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest.
 

Florida State gets Brady Smigiel, No. 6 pocket passer in '26​


Four-star quarterback Brady Smigiel, the sixth-ranked pocket passer in the 2026 class and the No. 55 prospect in the ESPN Junior 300, announced his commitment to Florida State on Saturday. Smigiel, a 6-foot-5 passer from Newbury Park, California, is the fifth top-10 quarterback in the 2026 class to announce his pledge. He picked the Seminoles from finalists Ohio State, Oregon and Washington and held offers from Notre Dame, Georgia and Michigan, among others. Smigiel's commitment follows pledges earlier this week from fellow top-10 quarterbacks Dia Bell (Texas --No. 2 pocket passer) and Brady Hart (Michigan--No. 8 pocket passer). Smigiel's pledge gives the Seminoles three ESPN Junior 300 prospects committed in the class of 2026. Smigiel joins athletes Effrem White (No. 103 in ESPN Junior 300) and Darryon Williams (No. 226) among the four prospects pledged to Florida State in the 2026 cycle.

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Miamigets commitment from 5-star OL S.J. Alofaituli
The five-star offensive guard from Nevada's Bishop Gorman High School is the No. 10 overall prospect in the 2025 ESPN 300. Alofaituli, one of the most experienced offensive linemen in the 2025 class, held a lengthy list of offers with interest across the SEC and Big Ten.

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Miami began the month outside ESPN's top-25 rankings in the 2025 class. With Alofaituli's pledge on the end of a hot run for Cristobal & Co., the Hurricanes are trending upward as July heats up on the recruiting trail.
 
Dillon Gabriel passes Beck, Ewers as Heisman favorite
Beck and Ewers, who had been the favorites since February, are +800 and +900, respectively. Gabriel began July with 10-1 odds at ESPN BET. He had been as long as 14-1 at other sportsbooks before an uptick of action showed up on the Ducks quarterback over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Top Heisman Trophy Odds: Bold = ACC

PLAYER, SCHOOLODDS
Dillon Gabriel, Oregon+750
Carson Beck, Georgia+800
Quinn Ewers, Texas+900
Jaxson Dart, Ole Miss+1500
Will Howard, Ohio State+1600
Nico Iamaleava, Tennessee+1600
Jalen Milroe, Alabama+1600
Garrett Nussmeier, LSU+2200
Cameron Ward, Miami+2200
Conner Weigman, Texas A&M+2200
 

Clemson motion to nix ACC countersuit in N.C. court denied​

The stalemate between the ACC and the two schools challenging its grant of rights continued Wednesday when a North Carolina judge denied Clemson's motion to dismiss the ACC countersuit, meaning the two sides will proceed to trial in two separate jurisdictions. Judge Louis Bledsoe, who is also overseeing the ACC's suit against Florida State, ruled that the ACC did have jurisdiction to file its suit in a Mecklenburg County court. Clemson had aimed to have the suit stayed or dismissed based on a sovereign immunity claim.

"The only court that has jurisdiction over FSU, Clemson, and the ACC -- and thus the only court that can assure a consistent, uniform interpretation of the Grant of Rights Agreements and the ACC's Constitution and Bylaws, the determinations at the core of the Pending Actions -- is a North Carolina court," Bledsoe wrote in his decision. "As the court found, Clemson does not challenge whether the ACC Grant of Rights is valid or enforceable. This recognizes the ACC's consistent position that the 2013 and 2016 Grant of Rights are valid and enforceable agreements that each of our members entered into voluntarily, with full knowledge of their terms."

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ACC boss to fight Clemson, FSU lawsuits 'for as long as it takes'​

ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said Monday that the league would fight lawsuits with Clemson and Florida State "for as long as it takes," adding "this conference is bigger than any one school or schools" as the league prepares to enter football season embroiled in courtrooms with two of its premier programs. Raycom had a long partnership with the ACC but was struggling financially, and it needed to keep a package of ACC media rights for survival, according to the complaint. John Swofford's son, Chad Swofford, worked for Raycom at the time and eventually became a vice president and general manager at the company.

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FSU players on playoff snub: 'Still thinking about it'​

Florida State helped open the ACC's annual kickoff event Monday, hyping the Seminoles' potential for a big 2024 season, but the aftermath of last year's playoff snub in spite of a 13-0 record was still at the forefront of everyone's minds. "We'll be 50 or 60," said defensive lineman Patrick Payton, "and still thinking about it." Florida State ended the 2023 season with a 13-0 record after a 16-6 win in the ACC championship game against Louisville, expecting a bid to the College Football Playoff. But with star QB Jordan Travis injured, the playoff committee handed the final playoff spot to one-loss Alabama instead, demoralizing the team, head coach Mike Norvell said, and leading to a slew of opt-outs for the team's Orange Bowl appearance, which the Seminoles lost 63-3 to Georgia.

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Troy Taylor: Stanford will adapt to ACC or risk irrelevancy​

As Stanford enters the ACC, football coach Troy Taylor has taken a big-picture view to switching conferences and a shifting collegiate landscape. "We'll adapt or you're not going to be relevant," Taylor said Tuesday, as Cal and Stanford made their first ACC media day appearances. Both schools scrambled to find a new conference home after the Pac-12 broke up last summer. Indeed, Taylor recounted how shocking it was to see such a storied conference break apart and how nerve-wracking it was to consider life outside a power conference. The ACC provided a landing spot for both schools, and while it is not a geographical fit, Taylor said there was a lesson learned as realignment impacted conferences across the country.

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