The ACC Network (ACCN) announced on Thursday that ESPN College GameDay is coming to Clemson for the Tigers' season opener vs. Georgia Tech on Thursday, Aug. 29 at 8 p.m. ET.

The GameDay set will be located on the concourse level of Memorial Stadium from 6-8 p.m. The program will air exclusively on ACCN from 7-8 p.m., leading into kickoff, while the first hour of the show will be on ESPN and ACC Network from 6-7 p.m.

It'll be the first time GameDay comes to Clemson since October 2016 when Clemson defeated Louisville. The show will include its traditional crew - host Rece Davis, analysts Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard, David Pollack and sideline reporter Maria Taylor.

So far, Disney/ESPN has struck deals with DirecTV, YouTube TV, Hulu, Fios, and Vue, among others to carry the new network, which debuts on Aug. 22. Negotiations with major cable providers are expected to continue until the last-minute.

Here's more in the official release from ESPN.

The Huddle team of host Jac Collinsworth, analysts Eric Mac Lain, EJ Manuel and Mark Richt, will be on the field of Memorial Stadium providing insight and analysis pregame, with a presence on GameDay, and at halftime. Additionally, the crew will host an exclusive one-hour postgame show with full analysis and live guests from the stadium on ACCN.

Dave O’Brien and Tim Hasselbeck will call Georgia Tech at Clemson with sideline reporters Katie George and ESPN’s Maria Taylor for the first league game of the season.



ACCN’s daily morning show Packer and Durham hosted by Mark Packer and Wes Durham will be live from Clemson on Thursday, Aug. 29 from 7-10 a.m. delivering news and commentary from around the ACC’s 15 institutions.

Owned and operated by ESPN in partnership with the Atlantic Coast Conference, ACC Network (ACCN) is a new 24/7 national network dedicated to ACC sports launching on August 22, 2019. Approximately 450 live contests including 40 regular-season football games, 150 men’s and women’s basketball games, and 200 other regular-season competitions and tournament games from across the conference’s 27 sponsored sports will be televised annually, plus a complement of news and information shows and original programming. Together, the ACCN and its digital platform, ACC Network Extra (ACCNE), will feature 1,350 ACC events in its first year. ESPN has been televising ACC content since 1979 and has exclusive rights to every conference-controlled game across all sports and championships.