Clemson Football participated with all their fellow conference-mates at the 2023 ACC Kickoff in Charlotte this week, and overall it was a quiet event, especially compared to last year.
The Atlantic Coast Conference thought the big story in 2022 was going to be the positive opinions about the conference’s new scheduling model and the discontinuation. Instead, the bombshell that USC and UCLA were going to leave the PAC-12 for the Big Ten quickly shifted the focus back to conference realignment and the ever-growing gap in revenue between the ACC and its peers.
While realignment made the 2022 Kickoff a bit tenuous, it was thought that realignment had calmed down and wouldn’t be a talking point this preseason.