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Today is that magic day when the ACC conference schedule for 2019 is released and made public. The announcement will be made by the ACC at 2 PM Eastern.
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Miami football will find out 2019 schedule on Wednesday afternoon (caneswarning.com; Rubenstein)
The ACC will release its 2019 Football schedule on Wednesday afternoon at 2 pm. The Miami football team only leaves the state for ACC Road games at Duke, North Carolina and Pittsburgh.
We do know what the Miami football team’s non-conference schedule will be in 2019. The Hurricanes open the season on August 31 against Florida in Orlando. Miami’s home opener is against FCS Bethune-Cookman the following week and the Hurricanes host Central Michigan at Hard Rock Stadium September 21.
It was announced on Monday evening that the Miami football team’s game against FIU will be November 23 at Marlins Park. It had been debated if the game was going to be at Marlins Park or Hard Rock Stadium.
Christy Chirinos of the Sun Sentinel reported that FIU chose Marlins Stadium to avoid giving Miami a home game atmosphere. The game is part of a home and home between the Hurricanes and FIU. Part of the agreement was that the game could not be at the Panthers Ricardo Silva Stadium because the 20,000 capacity is too small.
In addition to the games at Duke, North Carolina and Pittsburgh, Miami will also travel to Florida State in 2019. The Hurricanes currently have a two-game winning streak against the Seminoles. Miami rallied from 27-7 down in the third quarter to win last season’s game 28-27.
Miami adds Bethune-Cookman to 2019 football schedule (fbschedules.com; Kelley)
This was the final hold up preventing the release of the 2019 ACC football schedule...
The Miami Hurricanes have added the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats to their 2019 football schedule, according to a report by Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald.
Miami will host Bethune-Cookman at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, in their second contest of the season, per the report. That would likely put the game on Saturday, Sept. 7, pending the release of the 2019 ACC football schedule.
Miami and Bethune-Cookman first met on the gridiron in 2011. The Hurricanes won the most recent meeting 41-13 in 2017 and now lead the overall series 4-0.
Bethune-Cookman, located in Daytona Beach, Florida, is a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The Wildcats finished the 2018 season 7-5 overall and 5-2 in MEAC play.
The Miami Herald has also reported that Miami will play one of their non-conference opponents, the FIU Golden Panthers, at Marlins Park in 2019. That game is set for Nov. 23.
Marlins Park, the home of the Miami Marlins, has a seating capacity of 34,000 for football. Because it’s an FIU home game, the schools agreed to play off campus since Riccardo Silva Stadium only seats 20,000.
Miami is scheduled to open the 2019 season against the Florida Gators in the Camping World Kickoff on Saturday, Aug. 31. The game will be played at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida.
The fourth non-conference opponent Miami is scheduled to play in 2019 is Central Michigan on Sept. 21 at Hard Rock Stadium.
The 2019 ACC football schedule has not been released yet but is expected this month. Miami is scheduled to host Georgia Tech, Louisville, Virginia, and Virginia Tech and to travel to Duke, Florida State, North Carolina, and Pitt.
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Clemson football’s incredible journey to becoming Alabama’s equal (saturdayblitz.com; Heisey)
August 30, 2008
Clemson entered the season as the No. 9 team overall under the direction of head coach Tommy Bowden. The Tigers were coming off a 9-4 season in which they came up just short of clinching the ACC Atlantic Division and finished the season with a Chick-fil-A Bowl loss to the Auburn Tigers.
Alabama was in its second season under Nick Saban and the legendary coach seemed unafraid of the arguably overrated Clemson Tigers as they entered Atlanta, Ga. The Tide would go on to win the matchup 34-10 behind a huge game from kicker Leigh Tiffin and quarterback John Parker Wilson.
Even though Alabama wasn’t quite the Alabama team that they would later become, they were still a historically elite team who were on the rise due to the hiring of the legendary Nick Saban and the emergence of future Heisman winner Mark Ingram.
This loss not only sent Clemson spiraling down the AP poll but showed the world that even though they have the potential to be a good team, they were not a great team. The Tigers would go onto to lose two more games and looking for a change at head coach before their matchup against Georgia Tech.
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Sapakoff: The case for the 2018 Clemson football season as the best in college history (postandcourier.com; Sapakoff)
Think of the year’s work for a given sports team as a big cake that’s made up mostly of rich icing.
What counts most is the postseason, that’s the tastiest stuff. The little bit of fluffy batter inside this dessert is the regular season.
Not that there was much wrong with Clemson’s 2018 build-up to December and January.
The Tigers went 15-0 — most wins by any major college team in the modern era. They finished first nationally in scoring defense, fourth in scoring offense.
But if true legacy is how you finish — and it should be — it’s the remarkable postseason run that makes Clemson’s 2018-2019 season the best in college history.
Clemson finished celebrating atop a podium in California, with defensive linemen Christian Wilkins and Clelin Ferrell combining to give head coach Dabo Swinney a wet willie in each ear as he thanked God and Tiger fans.
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Clemson impresses top running back recruit, but baseball could pull him away (newsobserver.com; Kornblut)
Jackson, Miss., running back Jerrion Ealy is one of the last pieces Clemson would love to add to an already star-studded 2019 class and over the weekend the two-sport star and his parents got the inside look at what Dabo Swinney and company have built. The result of the visit was Clemson will have its shot with three others when Ealy announces on Feb. 6.
Ealy said he hung out with several of the players during the weekend including running backs Lyn-J Dixon and Travis Etienne and receiver Justyn Ross and was impressed with how they have put the national championship behind them and started to focus on 2019.
“I guess I can say I saw the player side the player view of it,” Ealy said. “They were ready to get back to work pretty much. I guess I guess it was kind of like a normal normal day in their life, a normal weekend in their life. It was more about this this year’s upcoming team more so last year’s team.”
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ACC Football Rx: Players in the 2019 "Transfer Portal" (RX; HM)
From ESPN: Transfer portal: Players who have entered their names
Quarterback (-3, + 1)
Kelly Bryant, Clemson to Missouri
Justin Fields, Georgia to Ohio State
Ben Hicks, SMU to Arkansas
Johnny Langan, Boston College to Rutgers
Devon Modster, UCLA to Cal
Riley Neal, Ball State to Vanderbilt
Shawn Robinson, TCU to Missouri
Jordan Travis, Louisville to Florida State
Jack Tuttle, Utah to Indiana
Undecided
Ross Bowers, Cal
Jalen Hurts, Alabama
De'Andre Johnson, FAU
Austin Kendall, Oklahoma
Tate Martell, Ohio State
Johnny Pabst, Indiana
Ty Storey, Arkansas
Running back (na)
James Gilbert, Ball State to Kansas State
Undecided
Trey Sneed, Rutgers to Fordham
Greg Bell, Nebraska
Riley Burt, BYU
Mitch McNutt, Illinois
Craig Nelson, Indiana
Ikechukwu Ogwuegbu, Maryland
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ACC Football Rx: 2019 Underclassmen Who Declared Early (RX; HM)
From ESPN: NFL draft early-entry deadline: College winners and losers
Monday marked the final date for non-seniors to enter the draft, held April 25-27 in Nashville, Tennessee. We now know who is staying and who is leaving. It's time to select the teams that got through the deadline feeling good, and those cringing at the roster damage.
WINNERS
Texas
Oregon
Auburn
LSU
Michigan State
The ACC: The conference celebrating its third national championship in the past six seasons also should be pleased about a relatively small number of underclassmen turning pro. Clemson loses four players, but defensive linemen Dexter Lawrence and Clelin Ferrell are likely first-round picks, while Kiper ranks cornerback Trayvon Mullen and linebacker Tre Lamar in his position rankings. Syracuse retained three productive draft-eligible defensive linemen after a 10-win season. Florida State lost only one underclassman, defensive end Brian Burns, a possible first-rounder, and Pitt, Louisville, Georgia Tech, Virginia and Virginia Tech all had zero early entries. There are a few tough departures, especially at wide receiver -- Wake Forest's Greg Dortch, NC State's Kelvin Harmon, North Carolina's Anthony Ratliff-Williams -- but the league emerged better than most.
LOSERS
Penn State (plays Pitt)
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Jersey Mike’s Subs opening first Syracuse-area location (PS; Doran)
Jersey Mike’s Subs, a well-known submarine sandwich shop chain, plans to open its first Syracuse-area location in DeWitt.
The Manasquan, N.J.-based chain, which operates more than 1,500 sub shops, is slated to open in a 10,000-square-foot newly constructed building in DeWitt, which also houses CORE Life Eatery. That building, in front of Marshall’s Plaza off Erie Boulevard East, will also be home to Blaze Pizza and a smoothie shop.
Jersey Mike’s officials said the DeWitt location is still in development, so they don’t have a targeted opening date yet.
Jersey Mike’s closest locations to Syracuse are in the Albany area and Dickson City, Pa.
Jersey Mike’s Subs, founded in 1956, began franchising in 1987 and by 2015 had more than 1,000 locations.
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