Atlantic Coast Conference — Football

A fourth straight appearance in prime time for the Dr Pepper ACC Football Championship Game and 11 national exposures in the first three weeks of the season, including six national TV appearances on the opening weekend of the year, headline the Atlantic Coast Conference early season TV football schedule announced Thursday by the ACC.

Five players from schools that will compete for the 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship were named today to the spring watch list for the Rimington Trophy, which is given annually to the nation's top center.

A total of seven football standouts from the Atlantic Coast Conference have been named to the first 2013 Watch List for the Lott IMPACT Award announced Thursday by the Pacific Club in Newport Beach, Calif.

A total of 51 players from Atlantic Coast Conference schools have signed free agent contracts or received invitations to attend free agent camps from teams in the National Football League.

A pair of standout players from Atlantic Coast Conference schools--NC State's Ted Brown and Miami's Vinny Testaverde--were named Tuesday to be among the newest class of inductees into the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame.

The Atlantic Coast Conference announced the dates, networks and game times for its 2013 Football Bowl Games. In all, the ACC will have eight guaranteed bowl slots, with one additional conditional contract.

Tune in for 2013 football predictions, a story on Miami's Allen Hurns, Hogewood's thoughts on Sammy Watkins and the sights and sounds of spring football.

North Carolina's Jonathan Cooper was the ACC's top pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, going seventh overall. He was one of two Tar Heels, three Seminoles and a Tiger selected from the league on Thursday night.

NC State, Syracuse, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest all hold spring games today. Boston College's event canceled after events in Boston earlier in the week.

Redshirt junior Matt Connors racked up 84 yards on 12 carries to lead the Gold team to a 22-10 win over the White squad in the 2013 Georgia Tech Friday Night on the Flats presented by CBC National Bank at Bobby Dodd Stadium.

The Atlantic Coast Conference and the University of Notre Dame today announced the ACC opponents the Fighting Irish will play in the first three seasons of their football partnership with the league that begins with the 2014 season.

The ACC Digital Network, sponsored by Ruby Tuesday, will live stream a pair of ACC Spring Football Games this Saturday. The Digital Network will broadcast both the Boston College and Wake Forest Spring Football Games.

Five ACC squads - Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Miami and North Carolina - held their spring games on Saturday.

Maryland held its spring game on Friday as the Red and White teams played to a 13-13 tie, while Pittsburgh concluded spring drills with the annual Blue-Gold Scrimmage.

As spring nears full bloom on campuses throughout the Atlantic Coast Conference, it might be easy to forget that the 2013 college football season isn't really that far away. It might be easy - until this weekend.

Head coach Mike London might wish a starter had emerged by now, but UVa's quarterback competition will continue through the end of spring practice next weekend and, in all likelihood, into training camp in August.

A total of nine spring football games of teams that will compete for the 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference Football Championship and a trip to Charlotte for the 2013 ACC Football Championship Game, will be available on ESPN3 this spring, ESPN and the ACC announced Wednesday.

The Atlantic Coast Conference and ESPN Monday announced three game times and networks for the first weekend of the 2013 college football season.

Duke quarterback Sean Renfree, the winner of the Jim Tatum Award as the ACC's top scholar-athlete; first-team All-Americas Jonathan Cooper of North Carolina, Dustin Hopkins of Florida State and Dalton Freeman of Clemson; the all-time leading pass receiver in Atlantic Coast Conference history, Conner Vernon of Duke; as well as record-setting quarterback Mike Glennon of NC State, headline the 52-member 2012 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Football Team, announced Wednesday by Commissioner John Swofford.

The 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference football schedule released Monday by Commissioner John Swofford is a slate which is the largest in league history, incorporating new league members Pittsburgh and Syracuse into the 14-team ACC, and it may also be one of the most ambitious in the league's 61-year history.