CFB-FBS: Atlantic Coast Conference Week 14 Preview

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2023 ACC FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

 SATURDAY, DEC. 2 TIME,

TV SIRIUSXM APP/WEB

No. 14 Louisville vs. No. 4 Florida State 8 p.m.,

ABC 81 or 82 81 or 82

Bank of America Stadium * Charlotte, N.C.

Series: Florida State leads series, 17-6;

Last meeting: Florida State, 35-31 (2022)

ABC: Joe Tessitore (play-by-play), Jesse Palmer (analyst), Katie George (sideline)

ESPN Radio: Mark Kestecher (play-by-play), Kelly Stouffer (analyst), Ian Fitzsimmons (sideline)

2023 ACC FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME FEATURES A BATTLE OF TOP 15 TEAMS

The top two teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference – No. 4 Florida State and No. 14 Louisville – will face off in the 2023 ACC Football Championship Game on Saturday, Dec. 2, at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The Seminoles will make their sixth trip to the ACC Football Championship Game and the first since 2014, when they won their third consecutive ACC Championship title with a 37-35 win over Georgia Tech. It will mark the Cardinals’ firstever trip to the ACC Football Championship Game.

The Seminoles are 12-0 overall and went 8-0 in the ACC – FSU’s first 12-0 start since 2014. FSU is 12-0 for the fourth time in school history and completed an unbeaten regular season for the seventh time in program history. FSU completed a perfect 8-0 conference season, its 10th all-time and first since 2014.

FSU is one of only five remaining undefeated teams in all of FBS. In the history of the College Football Playoffs, no undefeated Power 5 team has been left out of the playoff, including 6-0 Ohio State in 2020.

Louisville finished the regular season at 10-2 overall and went 7-1 in ACC play this season under first-year head coach and alumnus Jeff Brohm. The Cards have posted their seventh 10-win season in program history and first since the 2013 Cards finished 12-1.

Louisville is one of just six teams nationally that are undefeated with at least two (2) wins or more versus top 25 teams. The two wins over AP-ranked opponents in a single season mark just the second time in program history (2006).

No. 4 Florida State and No. 14 Louisville will meet in the 2023 ACC Football Championship Game on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 8 p.m. on ABC. This is the 14th time in the last 15 years that the game will be held in primetime.

Since joining the league in 1992, the Seminoles have won 15 ACC titles, with the last one coming in 2014. Florida State’s 15 titles are second to Clemson’s 21.

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