year who was a three-time pick as ACC Offensive Lineman-of-the-Week, more selections for the honor than any other ACC player. Spiller and Austin

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1 9 Preview Outlook Overview Media from coast to coast evaluating Clemson s prospects f the 9 season believe the Tigers are in a rebuilding mode. After all, few programs in the nation must replace their top receiver in histy, their #2 rusher, #2 passer in terms of efficiency, and #2 interception leader and turnover fcer. Head Coach Dabo Swinney begins his first full year as head coach looking f some answers at key skill-position areas on offense and in the secondary at the safety position on defense. Aaron Kelly, James Davis, Cullen Harper, and Michael Hamlin were all recdsetters in the last four years and were team leaders f a seni class that led Clemson to 32 wins and four bowl games. However, a closer look to the roster shows that Clemson does have some experienced players returning in key areas. While Clemson will not appear in many preseason top-25 polls, if any, the cupboard is not bare. Swinney welcomes back 53 lettermen, including 15 starters from last year s 7- team that closed the regular season with four wins in the last five games, earning a Gat Bowl bid. Among the returning lettermen, but not the returning starters, is C.J. Spiller. A candidate f the Heisman Trophy, the seni running back has come off the bench much of his career behind Davis, the only Tiger in histy to lead the team in rushing four consecutive years. Joining Spiller as a returning speed-demon on offense is wideout Jacoby Fd. The reigning National Champion in the 0m indos had 55 catches f 710 yards in 9 as the second option behind Kelly. He moves up to the #1 option in 9 and is certainly capable of a 1,000-yard season. Clemson s offensive line will return all five starters from last year and will be anched by graduate Thomas Austin, a versatile, strong, and quick player who has starting experience at both center and guard. Austin was Second-Team All-ACC last Seni wideout Jacoby Fd, an All-American in track, had 55 catches in. year who was a three-time pick as ACC Offensive Lineman-of-the-Week, me selections f the hon than any other ACC player. Spiller and Austin are both rated as the top draft prospects at their respective positions by analyst Mel Kiper. Swinney s defense returns eight starters, a strong stat f a unit that finished in the top 25 in the nation in scing defense, total defense, and pass defense in. While the Tigers must replace Hamlin and Chris Clemons, one of the most productive safety combinations in school histy, the Tigers have a strong defensive line, led by defensive ends Ricky Sapp and Da Quan Bowers, leading-tackler and linebacker Kavell Conner, and cnerbacks Crezdon Butler and Chris Chancell. DeAndre McDaniel has moved from linebacker to safety and will be among the top defenders in 9. Offense Clemson returns 2 lettermen and seven starters from an offense that averaged over 329 yards per game last year, 21 in the air and 111 on the ground. Clemson was in the top five in the ACC in scing offense, total offense, and passing offense last year and hopes to improve on those marks in Swinney s first full year as head coach. Billy Napier will serve as offensive codinat and quarterbacks coach. He is in his fourth year on the coaching staff, but his first as offensive codinat. At the age of 30, he will be the youngest codinat in school histy. Swinney will continue to run a spread offense, but the attack will feature me running plays f the quarterback. The leader under center will be the biggest question surrounding the program entering the season-opener against Middle Tennessee on September 5. Clemson is one of just two ACC schools (Boston College is the other) with both a new starting quarterback and new head coach in 9. The quarterback derby will be the talk of the August practices, said Swinney. But how we progress up front will be the key. We will have tremendous competition f the starting quarterback position. I have great confidence in all of our quarterbacks. They are talented players. Some people say if you have two quarterbacks, you don t have any. But I don t believe in that, because I know we have players who can get the job done. Willy Kn has the most experience among the quarterbacks. The sophome from Lyman, SC has played eight games (127 snaps) under center as Cullen Harper s backup over the last two years. Kn played two games as a first-year freshman in 7 then suffered a season-ending shoulder injury. He played six games in and made one start against Gegia Tech in Swinney s first game as head coach. But in that game, he was hit while attempting a pass and suffered a shoulder injury that limited his perfmance in the rest of the year. In his limited action, Kn has outstanding statistics with a career passing efficiency of thanks to passing (9.4 percent) f 31 yards and two touchdowns. He has also shown ability as a runner with two touchdowns on the ground. Kyle Parker is a second quarterback on the Tiger roster who was highly-rated coming out of high school. The red-shirt freshman is a native of Jacksonville, FL who was rated as the 34th-best player in the nation by.com. He helped his team Seni running back C.J. Spiller already owns 12 school recds, including career touchdowns of 50 yards me (12). to victy in the Under Armour All-America game in Orlando after his seni year. Parker sat out last year on the gridiron, but he was one of the top players on the Tiger baseball team in the spring of. He continued his fine play on the diamond in 9 when he hit 12 homers. F the second year in a row, he juggled spring football and baseball this past spring. Clemson s top player on offense and the team is Spiller. Few Heisman Trophy candidates came off the bench the previous year, but Spiller is a legitimate candidate as he moves into the center role of the Tiger offense f the first time. Our gameplan on offense will start with C.J. Spiller, said Swinney. He is perhaps the most exciting, versatile player in the nation. He had a great second half of, with the Boston College game being an example of his all-around capabilities. Spiller has gained a school-recd 4,90 all-purpose yards in three years thanks to his all-around abilities as a runner and receiver. In, he had 29 rushing yards and 43 receiving yards (1,05 yards from scrimmage). The receiving yards were second-most by a running back in Tiger histy. The Lake Butler, FL native already owns 12 school recds, including touchdowns of 50 yards me (12), six of which have been 0+ yards. While the Tigers have a running back capable of gaining 1,000 rushing yards, Swinney has a wideout capable of gaining 1,000 yards in terms of receiving. The Tigers have had just two previous years in its histy with a 1,000-yard receiver and running back in the same year (0,07). Fd is the top candidate to reach that 1,000yard mark among Tiger receivers in 9. Also a Sunshine State native, Fd joins Spiller as perhaps the nation s fastest receiver/running back combination. Both have been All-Americans f Clemson s track team in the last three years. Fd holds the ACC recd in the 0m (.51) and won the national indo title with a time of.52 in March. Fd had 55 catches f 710 yards and four sces last year when he was the second option behind Kelly, the top receiver in ACC histy. Spiller and Fd have strong suppt at their respective positions. Jamie Harper is the second

2 9 Preview Graduate offensive guard Thomas Austin was a three-time ACC Offensive Lineman-of-the-Week in. leading returning rusher with 133 yards on 34 carries. At pounds, the sophome gives Clemson the inside power it had the last four years with Davis. Andre Ellington is a red-shirt freshman running back who will also see action in 9. Fd is the only one of Clemson s top-three returning receivers. In addition to Kelly, four-year letterman Tyler Grisham also graduated with 132 career catches, 11th-most in school histy. Wideouts Xavier Dye, Marquan Jones, and Terrance Ashe are returning lettermen. Dye had six catches f 75 yards, Jones had three catches f 37 yards, and Ashe had three catches f 1 yards, but he had 10 catches in 7. Red-shirt freshmen Jaron Brown and Brandon Fd along with returning letterman Kyle Johnson will also be facts. Clemson will also use a strong cps of tight ends. Michael Palmer is the most experienced. The seni who has been a member of the All-ACC Academic team had 12 catches f 10 yards and three touchdowns in. In his career, he has 30 receptions f 31 yards and four touchdowns. He has started three bowl games as well. Durrell Barry is also a reliable tight end and red-shirt freshman Dwayne Allen was a national top-100 player accding to.com coming out of high school. Chad Diehl is a top blocker from the fullback position, while seni Rendrick Tayl is also back after a red-shirt year and will give the Tigers strength as a blocker and receiver. In, Clemson had to replace four starters on the offensive line. In years Clemson has had to replace four returning starters there since 193, Clemson has had a winning percentage of 54 percent. With Clemson in that situation in, the Tigers were 7- (53.9 winning percentage). In 9, Clemson returns five starters on the offensive line. Since 193, Clemson has had a winning percentage of 7 percent when it returns five starters on the offensive line. Swinney is optimistic that the Tigers will be able to improve significantly in terms of its ground game in 9. The bad news f us last year was that we had to replace four starters on the offensive line and had to play five freshmen who had never played befe, stated Swinney. We started three fresh men in a few games, something Clemson had not done since The good news this year is that we return five starters on the offensive line and all those young players are a year older and wiser. Leading the way on the offensive line is Outland Trophy candidate Thomas Austin. A starter as a center and guard during the last two years, Austin has led Clemson in knockdown blocks each of the last two seasons. A Second-Team All-ACC center last year, he was the first Clemson offensive lineman to be named ACC Offensive Lineman-of-theWeek three times in the same year since 199. Austin is slated to start at guard and Mason Cloy will start at center. Cloy was a first-team freshman All-American in when he had 5 knockdown blocks, second-most on the team. Cloy played 0 snaps and started all but one game. Redshirt freshman Dalton Freeman had an outstanding spring and will push Cloy f playing time. Sophome Antoine McClain was the mostimproved offensive lineman in the spring and will start at right guard. McClain was a highly-recruited player out of high school who played 149 snaps last year as a first-year freshman. He is ready to have an impact on the line in 9. Chris Hairston and Landon Walker are two returning starters at tackle. Hairston is an outstanding juni who played 11 games in, including 10 as a starter. He suffered two separate injuries that limited his play, but he had an 1-percent film grade f the year, second-best on the team. Walker started 10 games last year as a redshirt freshman. The son of a member of Clemson s 191 National Championship team had the thirdhighest average grade among offensive linemen from the coaches and totaled 72 snaps in. Walker, seni Cy Lambert, and freshman J.K. Jay are all in a competition to start at right tackle. Lambert started seven games at tackle and guard during. Jay is a first-year freshman who enrolled at Clemson in January, but he had an outstanding spring practice. Seni cnerback Crezdon Butler has 10 interceptions f 19 yards in his career. Defense Clemson has a new defensive codinat in Kevin Steele, who has served with distinction on staffs at Tennessee, Nebraska, Alabama, Flida State, and Carolina in the NFL. Clemson s defense was outstanding in many areas last year, finishing in the top 20 in the nation in scing defense, total defense, and pass defense. The pass defense was especially outstanding, leading to a #2 national finish in fewest yards per pass attempt allowed. The Tigers return Butler and Chancell, who have started together in the secondary f each of the last two years and 2 consecutive games. Both are legitimate Thpe Award candidates in 9. Butler has 10 career picks f 19 yards, tied f the most interceptions and most return yards among active ACC players. He had four interceptions f 142 yards last year, the third-most interception return yards in Tiger histy. His 19 career yards are third-most in Clemson histy. Chancell has actually started me games (30) in his career, including 2 in a row dating to the South Carolina game. The Miami, FL native has eight career picks, including four in. Clemson has a strong group of veteran reserves at cnerback. Juni Marcus Gilchrist saw a lot of time as a nickel back last year and will play behind Chancell. He had 21 tackles in 252 snaps and is also an experienced punt and kickoff returner. Byron Maxwell might be the hardest hitter in the secondary and will back up Butler. Maxwell had 54 tackles in. He had eight tackles, two tackles f loss, and a caused fumble that changed the momentum of the game in the win at Virginia in. While Clemson must replace both starting safeties, Defensive Backs Coach Charlie Harbison, who is back at Clemson f his second tour of duty, does have one returning starter at safety. DeAndre McDaniel has been moved from linebacker to strong safety and will solve one of the safety issues. In, McDaniel had 77 tackles, fifth-most on the team. He also had four tackles f loss and a fumble return f a sce against Nebraska in the Gat Bowl, the first Tiger to do that in a bowl game. Red-shirt freshman Carlton Lewis figures to be the top replacement at strong safety. Sadat Chambers, who has lettered on offense and defense, is the prime candidate to start at free safety. Chambers was a second-team safety last year when he had 21 tackles. He also lettered as a productive running back in 7. Red-shirt freshman Rashard Hall is his backup entering the spring, while Spencer Adams, who sat out last year with a tn ACL, will also compete f playing time. I think our defensive line will be the strength of the defense, perhaps the entire team, said Swinney. We have talented players who wk well together. It is a deep group. I am anxious to see what they can do in Coach Steele s style of defense. Clemson returns three starters across the front four. The unit is rated among the top 10 in the nation accding to some preseason magazines. Sapp is the leader and most experienced at that position from his bandit end position. He was having a strong juni year in with 2 tackles, including a team-tying-high 10 tackles f loss, through the first 10 games. But he suffered a tn ACL at Virginia and missed the rest of the season. Seni Kevin Alexander is a returning starter at defensive end and looks to have an outstanding fi 7

3 9 Preview Outlook nal year. The high school teammate of Spiller had 34 tackles in 13 games, including 10 as a starter, last year. Kourtnei Brown is another athletic end who will make a strong contribution. Clemson has three returning starters f the two defensive end positions. Da Quan Bowers started six games last year and had 47 tackles, most among all Tiger front-four linemen. He had a strong finish to his freshman year with six tackles, including three tackles f loss, against Nebraska and was named Clemson s MVP in the Gat Bowl. The Tigers must replace Dell Scott at defensive tackle, but Jarvis Jenkins returns as a seasoned veteran. Jenkins had a solid sophome year when he started 12 games and had 3 tackles, 30 of which were first hits. He finished the year with 10 tackles f loss to tie Sapp f the team lead. Brandon Thompson and Jamie Cumbie are two me returning defensive linemen who will see plenty of playing time. Thompson was slated to red-shirt in, but injuries fced him to active duty. He responded with 25 tackles, including five tackles f loss, as a backup. Cumbie sat out all but one game in and received a medical red-shirt. A Parade All-American in high school, Cumbie is poised f a breakout season after injuring both wrists in. Miguel Chavis is another defensive lineman with considerable experience. Clemson returns two starters at the linebacker positions, plus a third player with starting experi- against the school from his home state and he continued to be productive the rest of the year. The First-Team All-ACC Academic pick finished with 7 tackles in 12 games, fourth-most on the team. He earned first-team freshman All-America hons accding to the Football Writers Association. Scotty Cooper looks to be the third starter at linebacker. The juni had 2 tackles last year as an off-and-on starter at strongside linebacker. Special Teams Graduate linebacker Kavell Conner has 202 career tackles, secondmost among active ACC players. ence. Conner was Clemson s top tackler last year with 125 stops and finished among the top 12 in the ACC last year. He has 202 career tackles, secondmost among active ACC players. Brandon Maye had an outstanding red-shirt freshman season at middle linebacker in. The Alabama native had 12 tackles in his first game Clemson must replace multi-year starters Mark Buchholz and Jimmy Maners at the two kicking positions. Buchholz made field goals last year and was perfect on 40 extra points in leading the team in scing (5). Maners finished his career fourth in punting (41.7). He also had 13 punts inside the 20 in and 29 in his career. Red-shirt freshman Spencer Benton looks to take over the placekicking duties, but he will be pressured by Richard Jackson. Both were perfect on field goals in the Spring Game. Sophome Dawson Zimmerman, who started two games and punted in three last year, should be the starting punter. He had a 3.5-yard average on 12 punts. Clemson is in good shape in the return game. Spiller was 14th in the nation in kickoff returns last year and has three career kickoff returns f sces. Fd is also experienced in both areas. He has a punt and kickoff return f sces of over 90 yards. Preseason Depth Chart Pos. LT # LG C RG RT TE QB RB 2 23 FB/TE Player CHRIS HAITON Jamarcus Grant Cy Lambert THOMAS AUSTIN Wilson Nris Matt Sanders Barry Humphries MASON CLOY Dalton Freeman Ben Ramsey Barry Humphries ANTOINE McCLAIN David Smith Kenneth Page LANDON WALKER CORY LAMBERT J.K. JAY MICHAEL PALMER Dwayne Allen Phillip Price Drew Trayl XAVIER DYE Brandon Clear Brandon Fd WILLY KORN KYLE PARKER Michael Wade C.J. SPILLER Jamie Harper Andre Ellington RENDRICK TAYLOR Chad Diehl Durrell Barry Kasey Nobles TERRANCE ASHE Jaron Brown Kyle Johnson JACOBY FORD Marquan Jones Offense Hgt Wgt Cl. * * * Fr. * Exp. PL G-S Career G-S HS SQ SQ Pos. DE NG DT BE SLB MLB WLB CB SS FS CB PK P # Player Da QUAN BOWE Andre Branch Malliciah Goodman JARVIS JENKINS Jamie Cumbie Rennie Moe BRANDON THOMPSON Miguel Chavis Jamal Medlin RICKY SAPP KEVIN ALEXANDER Kourtnei Brown SCOTTY COOPER Daniel Andrews Tarik Rollins BRANDON MAYE Jeremy Campbell Stanley Hunter KAVELL CONNER Jonathan Willard Stanley Hunter CHRIS CHANCELLOR Marcus Gilchrist Coty Sensabaugh DeANDRE McDANIEL Carlton Lewis SADAT CHAMBE Rashard Hall Spencer Adams CREZDON BUTLER Byron Maxwell Xavier Brewer SPENCER BENTON Richard Jackson DAWSON ZIMMERMAN Richard Jackson Defense Hgt -7 Wgt Cl. Fr. Exp. PL G-S Career G-S HS ^ SQ SQ * - spent one season as a red-shirt player; ^ - offense

4 9 Clemson Schedule Clemson will face five bowl teams on the road during its 9 football schedule. The Tigers will have seven home games and five on the road in Dabo Swinney s first full season as head coach. The Tigers will travel to Gegia Tech, Maryland, Miami (FL), N.C. State, and South Carolina during the 9 season. Those teams combined f 37 wins in. The Tigers are slated to play nine bowl teams as well. Clemson s home ACC schedule includes visits from Boston College, the ACC Atlantic Division Champion each of the last two years, division-favite Flida State, ACC Champion Wake Fest, and Coastal Division rival Virginia. Non-conference foes Middle Tennessee, Texas Christian, a team ranked in the top 10 last year, and Coastal Carolina are also on the home schedule. The Tigers will open the season on September 5 against Middle Tennessee, the latest start to a season on the calendar since 199. Rick Stockstill, head coach at Middle Tennessee, was an assistant coach at Clemson from when he served under four different head coaches, the only Tiger assistant coach to do so. He was replaced on the Clemson staff in 3 by Swinney. Clemson will open its ACC slate at Gegia Tech on Thursday, September 10 in a game televised by. Gegia Tech was Swinney s first opponent last year when he took over at midseason. Fourteen of the last 19 games in the series have been decided by a touchdown less. Boston College will travel to Clemson on September 19 f the Tigers first ACC home game. The September 19 date is the third-winningest date in school histy on a percentage basis (.9). The game will be played on the 7-year anniversary of the opening of Memial Stadium. The Tigers defeated the Eagles in Chestnut Hill last year 27-21, their first win over Boston College in 50 years. The two teams will play f the McFadden-O Rourke Trophy f the second time. The MVP of the game will be presented the Leather Helmet Award. C.J. Spiller won the hon last year when he totaled 242 all-purpose yards. Texas Christian, who finished #7 in the final polls last year, will travel to Tigertown on September 2. This will 9 Schedule Date Opponent Site Special Day(s) Time TV 9-5 Middle Tennessee Hall of Fame Day & Youth Day * at Gegia Tech Atlanta, GA 9-19 * Boston College Family Weekend Raycom 9-2 Texas Christian Football Reunion Weekend 10-3 * at Maryland College Park, MD 10- * Wake Fest IPTAY Day * at Miami (FL) Miami Gardens, FL Coastal Carolina Homecoming 11-7 * Flida State Solid Orange Day * at N.C. State Raleigh, NC * Virginia Military Appreciation Day 11-2 at South Carolina Columbia, SC * - ACC game; Note: Home games in bold; all times are PM and Eastern. be just the second time in the last 20 years that a nonconference opponent ranked in the top 10 in the nation the previous year will play in Death Valley. The only other time took place in 3, when Gegia came to Clemson after finishing #3 in the 2 final polls. The #7 final national ranking f the Hned Frogs last year was the highest f the program since 1959, when it was also ranked #7 in the final AP poll. That year, Clemson defeated Texas Christian in the first Bluebonnet Bowl by a sce of It was the highest-ranked team that Head Coach Frank Howard defeated in his 30 years with the Tigers. This will be the 50-year anniversary of that game. Clemson will play at Maryland on October 3, then it will have two weeks to prepare f Wake Fest at home on October. Clemson has won each of its last two games at Maryland. The Tigers have won each of the last four games against the Demon Deacons at Memial Stadium. The Tigers will travel to southern Flida f the first time since 4 when it faces Miami on October 24. The Tigers won the last meeting there in overtime over #10 Miami. However, Miami won the last meeting at Clemson in 5 in triple overtime, the longest game in Tiger histy. Series Clemson will face Coastal Carolina at home on Halloween. It will be Clemson s first home game on Halloween since playing N.C. State in 199. The Chanticleers are coached by fmer Clemson Graduate Assistant Coach David Bennett. The Tigers will play four games in November, including three against ACC teams, two of which are Atlantic Division rivals. Flida State comes to town on November 7. The Seminoles won last year s meeting in Tallahassee, but they have lost three straight games to the Tigers in Memial Stadium by a total of 43 points. Clemson will travel to N.C. State on November 14. The Tigers have won five in a row in the series f the first time since the era. Clemson will round out its ACC schedule on November 21 against Virginia on Seni Day at Memial Stadium. It will be the first time Virginia has been the Tigers Seni Day opponent since 1993, when Clemson upset a top-20 Virginia team by a sce of The regular season will close on November 2 in Columbia, SC when the Tigers face rival South Carolina. Clemson has won 10 of the last 12 in the series and nine of the last 10 played in Columbia dating to ACC Schedule Thursday, September 3 South Carolina at N.C. State Saturday, September 5 Jacksonville State at Gegia Tech Ntheastern at Boston College Bayl at Wake Fest Middle Tennessee at Clemson The Citadel at Nth Carolina William & Mary at Virginia Richmond at Duke Virginia Tech vs. Alabama* Maryland at Califnia 1:00 2: : : Monday, September 7 Miami (FL) at Flida State Thursday, September 10 Clemson at Gegia Tech :00 Saturday, September 12 Raycom Stanfd at Wake Fest 30 Marshall at Virginia Tech 1:30 Kent State at Boston College 302:00 U Texas Christian at Virginia Jacksonville State at Flida State James Madison at Maryland Murray State at N.C. State Duke at Army Nth Carolina at Connecticut Saturday, September Gegia Tech at Miami (FL) Saturday, September 19 Boston College at Clemson Duke at Kansas Raycom Versus East Carolina at Nth Carolina Middle Tennessee at Maryland 30 Virginia at Southern Mississippi CBSCS Nebraska at Virginia Tech Gardner-Webb at N.C. State Elon at Wake Fest :30 Flida State at Brigham Young Versus Miami (FL) at Central Flida N.C. State at Boston College Wake Fest at Clemson Virginia Tech at Gegia Tech Virginia at Maryland Saturday, September 2 Flida State at Nth Carolina Nth Carolina Central at Duke Wake Fest at Boston College Texas Christian at Clemson South Flida at Flida State Nth Carolina at Gegia Tech Rutgers at Maryland Miami (FL) at Virginia Tech Pittsburgh at N.C. State Saturday, October 3 Flida State at Boston College Clemson at Maryland Virginia Tech at Duke Gegia Tech at Mississippi State Oklahoma at Miami (FL) Virginia at Nth Carolina N.C. State at Wake Fest Saturday, October 10 Boston College at Virginia Tech Duke at N.C. State Gegia Tech at Flida State Maryland at Wake Fest Flida A&M at Miami (FL) Gegia Southern at Nth Carolina Indiana at Virginia Saturday, October CBSCS Thursday, October 22 Saturday, October 24 Wake Fest at Navy Boston College at Notre Dame Clemson at Miami (FL) Maryland at Duke Gegia Tech at Virginia CBSCS Saturday, October 29 Nth Carolina at Virginia Tech Saturday, October 31 Central Michigan at Boston College Coastal Carolina at Clemson Duke at Virginia N.C. State at Flida State Gegia Tech at Vanderbilt Miami (FL) at Wake Fest Thursday, November 5 Virginia Tech at East Carolina Saturday, November 7 Flida State at Clemson Duke at Nth Carolina Wake Fest at Gegia Tech Maryland at N.C. State Virginia at Miami (FL) :00 Saturday, November 14 Boston College at Virginia Clemson at N.C. State Gegia Tech at Duke Flida State at Wake Fest Virginia Tech at Maryland Miami (FL) at Nth Carolina Saturday, November 21 Nth Carolina at Boston College Virginia at Clemson Duke at Miami (FL) Maryland at Flida State N.C. State at Virginia Tech Saturday, November 2 Boston College at Maryland Clemson at South Carolina Wake Fest at Duke Flida State at Flida Gegia at Gegia Tech Miami (FL) at South Flida Nth Carolina at N.C. State Virginia Tech at Virginia Saturday, December 5 ACC Championship Game^ :00 * - Atlanta, GA; ^ - Tampa, FL; Note: All times are PM and Eastern. 9

5 Covering The Tigers Media Infmation ACC Coaches Teleconference The ACC will hold a teleconference f the media each Wednesday (with the exception of Thanksgiving week) from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM through the season. The first session will be August 2 and the last will be Tuesday, November 24. Each coach will have 10 minutes to make an opening statement and answer questions. There will be a replay of each teleconference at TheACC.com. Contact the ACC office f the phone number to call. The schedule is as follows: Head Coach Frank Spaziani Dabo Swinney David Cutcliffe Bobby Bowden Paul Johnson Ralph Friedgen Randy Shannon Butch Davis Tom O Brien Al Groh Frank Beamer Jim Grobe Team Boston College Clemson Duke Flida State Gegia Tech Maryland Miami (FL) Nth Carolina N.C. State Virginia Virginia Tech Wake Fest Time 10:30 AM 10:40 AM 10:50 AM 11:00 AM 11:10 AM 11:20 AM 11:30 AM 11:40 AM 11:50 AM PM 12:10 PM 12:20 PM ACC Satellite Feed Starting Wednesday, September 2 and running consecutively through Wednesday, November 25, the ACC will provide a 90-minute press conference/ hightlight feed f the media that cover the ACC. The feed will be from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM. Satellite/Channel:...Galaxy /Transponder 24 (KU Digital) Located: degrees West Downlink Frequency: MHz Polarity:...Vertical Symbol Rate: MHz Data Rate: MHz FEC:...3/4 Trouble phone number:... (919) football practice fields. Other parking is available f out-of-town media (contact Tim Bourret). Enter the gate and proceed to the elevat. All media will-call credentials can be picked up at Gate 1 at Memial Stadium. That gate is outside the entrance to the press box. Credentials SID Phone / Fax:... (4) 5114 / 0299 Press Box Phone Number:... (4) SID Office Address:... P.O. Box 31; 2933 SID Overnight Address:...Jervey Athletic Center; Perimeter Road; 2933 Send all applications f media credentials (photo and print) to Clemson football games at Memial Stadium to Seni Associate Spts Infmation Direct Sam Blackman via at blackmj@ clemson.edu by fax at (4) Official Athletic Website Press Box There are two levels to the press box at Memial Stadium, located in the center of the club level of the South stands (Clemson sideline). The first level contains the photo deck, a photographer wk room, the outside public address system, stadium operations, and security, along with booths f field telephones, radio netwks, and Clemson Athletic Department officials. The second level is f the print media, with seats f 124 members. This level houses Clemson s buffet along with the wk room. Press Entrance to Memial Stadium The press parking lot (f media who cover Clemson on a regular basis) at Memial Stadium is at the SID Contact Infmation Wireless/Phones We have wireless internet service f football games in the Memial Stadium Press Box. To der a phone at your seat, call Karen Smith in the telecommunications office at (4) Weekly Press Conference Dabo Swinney s weekly press conference is held on Tuesdays during the season. The first session will begin at 11:00 AM on September 1 in the WestZone auditium. The media will interview Swinney from 11:00 AM to approximately 11:45 AM on Tuesdays. Players will be available both pri to Swinney s press conference and after, depending on class schedules. Contact Tim Bourret f specific player requests. Player interviews are Monday (10:15 AM to 12:30 PM) in Vickery Hall, Tuesday at the press conference, and Wednesday afternoon in the SID office. No player interviews on Thursday Friday. Clemson SID Staff 10 Tim Bourret Sam Blackman Brian Hennessy Philip Sikes Jeff Kallin Libby Kehn Assistant AD, Spts Infmation Primary Football Contact Office - (4) btimoth@clemson.edu Seni Associate SID Office - (4) blackmj@clemson.edu Associate SID Secondary Football Contact Office - (4) bhennes@clemson.edu Associate SID Office - (4) philips@clemson.edu Assistant SID Office - (4) jkallin@clemson.edu Webmaster & Assistant SID Office - (4) elizabk@clemson.edu