What's ahead in the ACC in 2024? We break down the best players and games and title odds in the league.
Thank goodness actual football is starting soon. No offense to the good folks of the Atlantic Coast Conference, but when lawsuits and countersuits are the primary, well, you haven't had a very enjoyable offseason. , start out in the front of the race, but five teams are projected between 19th and 32nd in SP+ and loom not far behind.Every week through the summer, Bill Connelly will preview another FBS conference exclusively for ESPN+, ultimately including all 134 FBS teams.
Without transfers, Clemson has become far less nimble than other top-15ish schools when it comes to addressing weaknesses. Case in point: the offense. After averaging a No. 50 ranking in offensive SP+ in 2021-22, Swinney hired TCU's Garrett Riley as coordinator and handed the full-time reins to five-star sophomore. The Tigers ranked 51st in offensive SP+. Meanwhile, an inexperienced defense was still good, but it fell to 21st in defensive SP+, the worst in nine seasons.
It's possible that at some point you just recruit so well that it overcomes your shortcomings. Cristobal added 14 more four-star freshmen to the roster and made a splash in the transfer portal, bringing in Washington State quarterback Cam Ward, Oregon State running back The Louisville native and Louisville grad returned home last season, and while the Cardinals' improvement wasn't quite as voracious -- Louisville won eight games the year before Brohm's arrival -- his first team still won 10 games and jumped to 34th in SP+. It took close wins and turnovers luck to get them into the ACC championship, and the Cardinals finished with three straight losses, but it was still a strong debut.
The Hokies had one of the best pass defenses in the country last season, ranking fourth in sacks per dropback, 15th in passing success rate allowed and 23rd in QBR allowed. Ace pass rusher is back, and Pry added both one of the better pass-rushing defensive tackles in the country in 290-pound Duke transfer, and there's no reason to think the pass defense will be any less effective. If there was a problem, it came in run defense, where Tech allowed quite a few gashes.
The lines are getting a renovation, however. Seven offensive linemen started at least six games in 2023 and five are gone, along with three backups. Diaz signedis excellent, and it probably says something that Diaz only signed two transfers, but depth is an obvious question mark until otherwise noted.. Moore has been targeted 203 times over the last two seasons, and despite working with three different QBs in 2023, he averaged an excellent 2.1 yards per route run, 2.
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