PITTSBURGH – It is game day in Acrisure Stadium where Clemson battles Pittsburgh as they look to finish the ACC strong.
The Tigers look to move to 7-1 in the conference with a win over the Panthers.
Location: Acrisure Stadium
Kickoff: Noon
Television: ESPN
Announcers: Sean McDonough, Greg McElroy, Molly McGrath
2024 Record: Clemson 7-2, Pitt 7-2
ACC Record: Clemson 6-1, Pitt 3-2
Series History: Pitt leads series 3-2
Last Meeting: Pitt won 27-17 on October 23, 2021
CLEMSON WRAPS UP ACC REGULAR SEASON PLAY SATURDAY AT PITT
Clemson will play its final conference game of the regular season and its final true road game of its 2024 campaign on Saturday, Nov. 16 when the Tigers face the Pitt Panthers. Kickoff at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh is scheduled for noon ET.
Pitt will represent Clemson’s final conference opponent of the regular season before the Tigers return home to face consecutive non-conference foes from in state over the final two weeks. Clemson sits in second place in the ACC with a 6-1 conference record. The Tigers’ 27 all-time seasons with six or more regular season conference wins are the most in ACC history, and Clemson’s 14 seasons with six or more conference wins since Dabo Swinney was hired as Clemson’s full time coach prior to the 2009 season are tied with
Alabama for the national lead.
One of the breakout stars of Clemson’s win at Virginia Tech last week was true freshman linebacker Sammy Brown, who gameday stat crews credited with a team high eight tackles with 2.5 tackles for loss and a sack in his first career start. Despite starting only one game this season, Brown leads Clemson with 9.0 tackles for loss and leads the nation among freshmen in that category.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR THIS WEEK
– Clemson attempting to reach eight wins in a season for the 42nd time in school history and for the 15th time in Dabo Swinney’s 16 full seasons as head coach.
– Clemson attempting to finish ACC regular season play 7-1. It would mark Clemson’s 11th season in school history with seven or more ACC wins and it would be Clemson’s 10th such season since 2012 (1983, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022).
– Clemson attempting to improve to 45-25-2 in regular season conference finales since the inception of the ACC in 1953. Clemson’s last loss in its final ACC game of regular season play came in 2014 against Georgia Tech.
– Clemson attempting to win a 10th straight regular season ACC finale. Clemson’s active nine-game winning streak in ACC finales is already the program’s longest.
– Clemson attempting to finish 4-0 in true road games this season. Clemson enters the week as one of 12 FBS schools (and one of nine power conference programs) that remains undefeated in road games this season.
– Clemson attempting to record a perfect record in true road games in a season for the 10th time in program history (1900, 1917, 1948, 1981, 1995, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019).
– Clemson attempting to improve to 40-8 in true road games since 2015. Clemson’s .830 winning percentage in true road games since 2015 is the fourth-best road winning percentage in the nation, and Clemson’s 39 road wins in that span are tied for the most in the country.
– Clemson attempting to even its all-time series with
Pitt at 3-3.
– Clemson facing Pitt on the road for the second time
in school history. Clemson’s first four meetings with
the Panthers took place in Clemson (2016 and 2020),
Jacksonville (1977 Gator Bowl) and Charlotte (2018 ACC
Championship Game) before finally facing the Panthers in
Pittsburgh in 2021.
– Clemson playing its third game in the city of
Pittsburgh all-time including the Tigers’ 34-13 win
against Duquesne at Forbes Field in 1947.
– Clemson attempting to improve to 24-10 under
Dabo Swinney in games against teams to which
Clemson lost its most recent game. Clemson is 2-1 in
such games this season, including victories against NC
State and Florida State.
ACC REGULAR SEASON FINALE
Saturday will be Clemson’s final game of ACC regular
season play in 2024. Clemson is 44-25-2 in conference
finales since the ACC’s inception in 1953.
The Tigers have won a school-record nine straight ACC
regular season finales. Clemson’s last loss to end ACC
regular season play came in 2014 against Georgia Tech.
SWINNEY IN REMATCHES
Clemson has suffered 45 losses under Head Coach Dabo Swinney. Clemson has had 33 previous opportunities to avenge its most recent loss against an opponent, going 23-10 in those contests. Including Pitt, there are 12 opponents against which Swinney’s squads are awaiting a rematch since Clemson’s last loss in the series: Nebraska, TCU, USF, West Virginia, LSU, Ohio State, Tennessee, Duke, Miami (Fla.), Georgia and Louisville.
HISTORIC CONFERENCE REIGN
In 2020, Clemson became the first program ever to win 20 ACC Championships. That year, Clemson became the first program in the conference championship game era to win six straight conference championship games.
Clemson also became the first ACC program to win six consecutive outright titles, as Florida State had a streak of nine straight ACC titles, but that streak included two co-championships that prevented Bobby Bowden’s Seminoles from ever winning more than three straight titles outright.
Clemson’s 2022 ACC title was the program’s seventh in eight years, as the Tigers became the first team in an active power conference to win seven outright conference titles in an eight-year span since Alabama won eight SEC
titles in nine seasons from 1971-79.
Including titles from its days as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association and Southern Conference, Clemson has 27 conference
championships overall, also the most of any current ACC school. Duke ranks second among the ACC’s current membership with 18 overall conference titles, including 11 Southern Conference titles and seven ACC titles.
TCI Predictions
Robert – Clemson 35, Pitt 21
Will – Clemson 24, Virginia Tech 21
JP – Clemson 27, Pitt 17