Clemson is just a few days into the offseason, but it’s never too early to look ahead to next season.
In fact, the majority of Clemson’s 2023 schedule has been finalized – and has been for a while. The Tigers’ conference opponents were revealed back in the summer as part of the ACC’s new scheduling model. There was also a recent change to the Tigers’ non-conference slate for next season.
Here’s a refresher on what we know about the Tigers’ schedule for next season:
The Tigers will likely start with a conference opponent again. Who that will be has yet to be determined, but Clemson already has its four non-conference games on the docket, including two scheduled for the second and third weekends in September. So unless one of those games is moved up, the Tigers will play an ACC opponent on the season’s opening weekend.
It would be the second time in a five-year span that Clemson opens back-to-back seasons with an ACC foe. Clemson, which beat Georgia Tech to begin this season, will try to extend its eight-game winning streak in league openers, the longest conference-opener win streak in program history.
Clemson is trading one in-state FCS foe for another. The Tigers were originally slated to play Wofford during the non-conference portion of its schedule, but after the Terriers recently added Pitt to their ‘23 schedule, Clemson replaced them with Charleston Southern.
CSU will make the trip to Memorial Stadium on Sept. 9 while the Wofford game will be rescheduled for a later year, Clemson athletic director Graham Neff recently told The Clemson Insider. CSU joins Florida Atlantic (Sept. 16), Notre Dame (Nov. 4) and South Carolina (Nov. 25) on Clemson’s non-conference schedule.
The Tigers’ divisional slate is gone. The ACC has scrapped the Atlantic and Coastal divisions starting next season, meaning the two teams with the highest league winning percentage will now play in the ACC championship game instead of division winners.
It also means a new 3-5-5 scheduling format that permanently keeps just three conference opponents on Clemson’s schedule and rotates five new league opponents on the eight-game conference slate each year. The Tigers will continue playing Georgia Tech, Florida State and NC State on an annual basis, and Syracuse and Wake Forest are old Atlantic Division foes that are staying on the schedule next season.
But North Carolina, Miami and Duke are new opponents rotating onto the Tigers’ conference schedule in the fall. Clemson will travel to Duke, Miami, NC State and Syracuse while hosting Georgia Tech, Florida State, Wake Forest and North Carolina. Dates for those games will be determined later this year.
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