Clemson's 2022 football schedule released

Will Shipley and the Tigers will get their campaign started in Atlanta.

by TigerNet Staff - Mon Jan 31 19:52:14 GMT-04:00 2022

The ACC released Clemson’s full 2022 football schedule on the league’s network broadcast Monday evening.

The Tigers, as previously announced, will start their quest for an ACC Championship return in Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium for a road matchup with Georgia Tech on Labor Day, Sept. 5.

The marquee non-conference game was also set already with a Nov. 5 trip to Notre Dame for a likely primetime NBC clash.

The out-of-conference slate is rounded out at home with Louisiana Tech (Sept. 17), Furman (Sept. 10) and South Carolina (Nov. 26). South Carolina's trip to Clemson is a first since 2018 after the SEC decided to play a conference-game-only 2020 regular-season.

Clemson is set to play four teams in ESPN’s Way Too Early rankings for 2022 with Notre Dame (6), NC State (8), Wake Forest (14) and South Carolina (25). Clemson faces those two top-rated divisional teams back-to-back by heading to Wake Forest in week three and then hosting NC State to start October.

After scheduling quirks in recent years, Clemson returns to division foe Boston College for the first time since 2018 on Oct. 8. Clemson plays five divisional foes in a row with a trip to Florida State the next week and hosting Syracuse the week after. Louisville comes to Clemson to wrap the divisional slate after the trip to Notre Dame.

Miami and new coach Mario Cristobal return to Clemson to close the ACC schedule in November. It's a second consecutive trip for the Hurricanes to Clemson in the series after a 42-17 loss in the reconfigured 2020 ACC schedule. Clemson has only played at Miami three times since it joined the league in 2004 and just once since 2010 (2015) -- and isn’t scheduled to go there in the league rotations that are set through 2024.

Dabo Swinney’s Tigers continued a run of double-digit win seasons stretching back to 2011 with a 10-3 campaign in 2021, capped by a 20-13 win over Iowa State in the Cheez-It Bowl.

Check out the full schedule below:

2022 Clemson football schedule

Sept. 5 (Monday) at Georgia Tech in Mercedes-Benz Stadium

Sept. 10 Furman

Sept. 17 Louisiana Tech

Sept. 24 at Wake Forest

Oct. 1 NC State

Oct. 8 at Boston College

Oct. 15 at Florida State

Oct. 22 Syracuse

Oct. 29 Bye week

Nov. 5 at Notre Dame

Nov. 12 Louisville

Nov. 19 Miami

Nov. 26 South Carolina

Clemson schedule notes (via Clemson communications)

SEPT. 5 (MONDAY) • AT GEORGIA TECH • MERCEDES-BENZ STADIUM, ATLANTA, GA.

One year after opening the 2021 season at the home of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers, Clemson will open the 2022 campaign at the home of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, marking the first time Clemson has opened back-to-back years in NFL facilities. The contest, which is classified as a Georgia Tech home game despite being moved off-campus, will represent Clemson’s second season opener against Georgia Tech in the Dabo Swinney era, joining a 52-14 home win against the Yellow Jackets to open the 2019 season in the first live game ever played on ACC Network.

SEPT. 10 • VS. FURMAN • MEMORIAL STADIUM, CLEMSON, S.C.

On a short turnaround, Clemson will face Furman for the Tigers’ home opener on Sept. 10 as part of Clemson’s annual non-conference scheduling philosophy of facing two Power Five conference opponents, a Group of Five conference opponent and an in-state Football Championship Subdivision squad. Clemson is 96-17-8 in home openers against 38 different opponents all-time, and the Tigers are 36-0 against FCS opponents since Division I split in 1978, winning 35 of the 36 games by double digits.

SEPT. 17 • VS. LOUISIANA TECH • MEMORIAL STADIUM, CLEMSON, S.C.

Clemson and Louisiana Tech will square off for the fourth time in series history, as, under Tommy Bowden, Clemson went 3-0 against the Bulldogs including a 51-0 shutout victory in the squads’ most recent meeting in 2006. The Sept. 17 date should hopefully result in better weather than the teams’ first meeting, which took place in Boise, Idaho in the 2001 Humanitarian Bowl when Clemson earned a 49-24 win in snowy conditions that featured the second-coldest recorded kickoff temperature in school history (32 degrees).

SEPT. 24 • AT WAKE FOREST • TRUIST FIELD, WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.

Wake Forest last defeated Clemson on Oct. 9, 2008, a loss that led to the departure of Head Coach Tommy Bowden and led to the elevation of Swinney four days later. In the time since, Clemson has posted a 13-0 record against the Demon Deacons, making Wake Forest one of five ACC programs against whom Swinney is undefeated (Duke, Louisville, Virginia and Virginia Tech). Clemson will try to add to that 13-0 mark when the Tigers and Demon Deacons square off on Sept. 24.

OCT. 1 • VS. NC STATE • MEMORIAL STADIUM, CLEMSON, S.C.

After a tough double-overtime loss in Raleigh a season ago, Clemson will await its rematch with NC State in Death Valley on Oct. 1. Clemson has suffered only 36 losses under Dabo Swinney and has had 27 previous opportunities to avenge its most recent loss against an opponent, going 18-9 in those contests. Outside of NC State, there are eight opponents against whom Swinney’s squads are awaiting a rematch since Clemson’s last loss in the series: Nebraska, TCU, USF, West Virginia, LSU, Ohio State, Georgia and Pitt. Swinney will attempt to move to 11-2 against NC State all-time.

OCT. 8 • AT BOSTON COLLEGE • ALUMNI STADIUM, CHESTNUT HILL, MASS.

After scheduling oddities from the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in Clemson hosting Boston College three straight seasons from 2019-21, Clemson will return to Chestnut Hill on Oct. 8 to face Boston College on the road for the first time since 2018. That year, Clemson earned a 27-7 prime-time win in College GameDay’s featured game to clinch the ACC Atlantic Division as part of a 15-0 national championship season. Clemson has won 11 straight games in the series, its seventh-longest winning streak against a single opponent all-time and its fourth-longest against an opponent presently in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

OCT. 15 • AT FLORIDA STATE • DOAK CAMPBELL STADIUM, TALLAHASSEE, FLA.

Clemson will carry a six-game series winning streak dating to 2015 into Florida State’s Doak Campbell Stadium on Oct. 15. With a win, Clemson would join the 1968-76 Florida Gators (eight straight) as the only programs ever to win seven straight against the Seminoles. Clemson would also become the first ACC school to win three straight games in Tallahassee, as the Tigers collected a 37-34 road win in 2016 and a 59-10 road win in 2018, with both seasons culminating with national championship victories.

OCT. 22 • VS. SYRACUSE • MEMORIAL STADIUM, CLEMSON, S.C.

A Clemson win on Oct. 22 would push the Tigers’ winning streak in their series with Syracuse to five games, which would extend Clemson’s current streak past its four-game streak from 2013-16 as the longest in series history. Since dropping the programs’ first meeting in the Gator Bowl following the 1995 season, Clemson is 8-1 in the teams’ nine most recent meetings and holds an 8-2 all-time record in the series. Clemson has been ranked in at least one major poll in all 10 games against Syracuse and has been ranked in the AP Top 3 in seven of those contests.

NOV. 5 • AT NOTRE DAME • NOTRE DAME STADIUM, NOTRE DAME, IND.

Two historic programs will look to add another chapter to a series that has produced a number of memorable moments in recent years. The Tigers are 4-2 all-time against the Fighting Irish, and the programs split two meetings in 2020 in Notre Dame’s lone season of ACC membership. Clemson won the teams’ most recent matchup, a 34-10 win in the 2020 ACC Championship Game, avenging a 47-40 double-overtime loss at Notre Dame earlier that season in which several key players, including quarterback Trevor Lawrence and linebacker James Skalski, were unavailable. Quarterback DJ Uiagalelei threw for 439 yards in Clemson’s last trip to Notre Dame, the most all-time by any player against the Irish.

NOV. 12 • VS. LOUISVILLE • MEMORIAL STADIUM, CLEMSON, S.C.

Clemson will enter its 2022 home date with Louisville on Nov. 12 boasting a 7-0 all-time record against the Cardinals, one of two FBS programs against whom Clemson has won its first seven all-time games. A year ago, Clemson overcame a 24-17 deficit after three quarters and earned a win with a dramatic goal-line stand from the two-yard line in the final minute. Including a comeback win a week earlier against Florida State, the victory at Louisville gave Clemson fourth-quarter comeback wins in back-to-back games for the first time in the Dabo Swinney era.

NOV. 19 • VS. MIAMI (FLA.) • MEMORIAL STADIUM, CLEMSON, S.C.

Clemson will welcome the Miami Hurricanes to Death Valley on Nov. 19, marking the teams’ first meeting since 2020. In that game, a prime-time audience and the ESPN College GameDay crew witnessed as No. 1 Clemson routed No. 7 Miami, 42-17, in the rain in the fifth matchup of AP Top 10 teams in Memorial Stadium history. Clemson is riding a three-game winning streak in its series with Miami, including wins in 2015, 2017 and 2020 by a combined score of 138-20.

NOV. 26 • VS. SOUTH CAROLINA • MEMORIAL STADIUM, CLEMSON, S.C.

Clemson fans’ long wait will be over on Nov. 26 when the Clemson-South Carolina rivalry will return to Death Valley for the first time since 2018. Clemson will attempt to set a series record with its eighth consecutive win in the rivalry, as the Tigers enter the contest tied with the 1934-40 Clemson squads (seven straight) for the longest winning streak by either team in series history. Clemson is coming off of a 30-0 win against South Carolina in 2021 and hasn’t surrendered a touchdown to the Gamecocks since 2018.

Clemson faces Notre Dame on Nov 5 in South Bend. Irish will take 16-game winning streak in month of November into that game.
— Tim Bourret (@TimBourret) February 1, 2022