ACC Kickoff 2024

CHARLOTTE: Syracuse enters the 2024 season with a lot of new faces in new places. The Dino Babers era has given way to the Fran Brown era in upstate New York. In addition to a new head coach, the Orange will welcome transfer quarterback Kyle McCord into the fold. McCord is coming off a successful […]

CHARLOTTE: UNC has enjoyed some success in Mack Brown’s second turn as head coach in Chapel Hill, NC, including the school’s first Orange Bowl appearance to close the 2020 season and a Coastal Division title in 2022. But there is also a growing frustration due to North Carolina’s inability to capitalize on momentum and finish

CHARLOTTE: NC State head coach Dave Doeren led off the final day of the ACC Kickoff, Thursday. Doeren is entering his 12th season at the helm of the Wolfpack, placing him just behind Clemson’s Dabo Swinney in terms of ACC tenure. NC State is coming off its fourth straight winning season, having finished ranked 21st

CHARLOTTE: The Wake Forest football program suffered a rare down season under Dave Clawson in 2023. After a run of seven straight bowl seasons, the Demon Deacons crashed and burned with a 4-8 record, including 1-7 in the ACC. An unsettled quarterback situation and injures along the offensive line were too much to overcome. Clawson

CHARLOTTE: Manny Diaz is getting a second chance to win big in the ACC. He spent four seasons at Miami were 21-15 wasn’t good enough to keep him around. After two seasons as the defensive coordinator at Penn State, Diaz was plucked by Duke to replace Mike Elko who left for Texas A&M after two

CHARLOTTE: Boston College found itself in the market for a new head coach when Jeff Hafley left after four seasons to become the defensive coordinator of the Green Bay Packers. To replace him, the Eagles hired one of the biggest names in the coaching ranks. Bill O’Brien has been around the block a time or

CHARLOTTE: Jeff Brohm wasted no time finding success at his alma mater. The former Louisville quarterback guided the Cardinals to ten wins and a berth in the ACC Championship game last season. He hit the transfer portal with a purpose in the off season and brought in a quarterback with a positive track record. He

CHARLOTTE: Two years ago, Miami brought back Mario Cristobal in hopes of returning the program to national prominence. After two seasons, the arrow is pointing up for the Hurricanes. There was a small step forward from 5-7 in year one to 7-6 in year two, but with an influx of transfer talent, especially at quarterback,

CHARLOTTE: Year three for Tony Elliott at Virginia cannot kick off soon enough. As a rookie head coach in 2022, he had to deal with the unfathomable…the shooting deaths of three of his players by a former player. That would shake any program to its core, much less one in transition to a new coach.

CHARLOTTE: The Stanford football program that has joined the ACC is not the same Cardinal program that was one of the best in the PAC-12 last decade. From 2010-18 they won 94 games and three conference titles. But 2019 started a downturn from which they have not recovered. The Cardinal has but 17 wins over

CHARLOTTE: The West Coast part of the newly expanded ACC family made their appearances Tuesday at the ACC Kickoff with Cal and Stanford generating a lot of interest because, well, they’re not well known in these parts. The Golden Bears had a late season surge winning their last three games to make a bowl in