NC/ACC Week Four College Football Preview/Scoreboard
(“This Week In College Football, with David Glenn” show = below)
By David Glenn
North Carolina Sports Network
(updated scoreboard below)
The 2024 college football season continues Thursday night, with Appalachian State serving as host for ESPN’s exclusive national television window, then Saturday with the bulk of an intriguing Week Four schedule, including multiple high-profile matchups involving Atlantic Coast Conference and/or North Carolina-based teams.
The 2-1 Mountaineers, who have played in two of the last three Sun Belt Conference championship games under head coach Shawn Clark, begin their 2024 league schedule by hosting South Alabama at Kidd Brewer Stadium in Boone on Thursday (7:30 pm, ESPN).
App State, the media’s preseason pick to represent the East Division in this year’s Sun Belt title contest, is coming off a 21-19 victory at East Carolina in nonconference play. The Mountaineers are a seven-point favorite against 1-2 South Alabama, whose only victory so far this season is over a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) opponent.
In other highlights on the Week Four schedule, NC State is resuming its Textile Bowl rivalry with nationally ranked Clemson, Duke and North Carolina are seeking to complete 4-0 sweeps of their 2024 nonconference opponents, and ECU is hitting the road to take on an undefeated Liberty squad.
Over the last 20 years, the Tigers enjoy a 16-3 advantage in head-to-head games against the Wolfpack, who will start true freshman quarterback CJ Bailey at Death Valley. Meanwhile, the Blue Devils (1-2 Middle Tennessee State on the road) and Tar Heels (2-0 James Madison at home) hope to maintain their perfect records this week, before they open conference play against each other on Sept. 28 in Durham.
Elsewhere in the ACC, Stanford and Syracuse will clash in a Friday night matchup on ESPN, Georgia Tech will visit nationally ranked Louisville, undefeated California will visit winless Florida State, and Boston College will host undefeated Michigan State.
At the FCS level, one of North Carolina’s historic rivalries will resume as North Carolina A&T visits NC Central in Durham in the Aggie-Eagle Classic. Our “Old North State Tailgate and Traveling Sports Circus,” with our famous football toss, assorted prizes and Moe’s Original BBQ, will be set up in the track and field area next to O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium from 5-7 pm, leading up to the game’s kickoff.
North Carolina A&T (2015, 2017, 2018, 2019) and NC Central (2022), the two largest historically black colleges and universities in North Carolina, both have won the HBCU national championship on the gridiron in recent years. The Aggies hold the all-time edge (53-37-5) in the rivalry’s head-to-head matchups, but the Eagles have won the series’ past two games, which were played in Charlotte (2022) and Greensboro (2023).
NC Football Bowl Subdivision (Seven Teams)
(Games Saturday Unless Otherwise Indicated)
South Alabama 48, Appalachian State 14
Clemson 59, NC State 35
James Madison 70, North Carolina 50
Indiana 52, Charlotte 14
Duke 45, Middle Tennessee State 17
Liberty 35, East Carolina 24
Open Week: Wake Forest (1-2)
Atlantic Coast Conference (17 Teams)
Stanford 26, Syracuse 24
Clemson 59, NC State 35
James Madison 70, North Carolina 50
Virginia 43, Coastal Carolina 24
Louisville 31, Georgia Tech 19
Rutgers 26, Virginia Tech 23
Pittsburgh 73, Youngstown State 17
Duke 45, Middle Tennessee State 17
SMU 66, TCU 42
#8 Miami 50, South Florida 15
Florida State 14, California 9
Boston College 23, Michigan State 19
Open Week: Wake Forest (1-2)
NC Football Championship Subdivision (Seven Teams)
#10 Montana 46, Western Carolina 35
Stony Brook 24, Campbell 17
East Tennessee State 34, Elon 14
NC Central 66, North Carolina A&T 24
Gardner-Webb 42, Presbyterian 21
Open Week: Davidson (2-1)
NC Division Two (14 Teams)
#19 Charleston-WV 58, UNC Pembroke 36
Carson-Newman 31, #24 Wingate 28 (OT)
Emory & Henry 41, Barton 0
Winston-Salem State 15, Virginia State 14
Shaw 48, Lincoln-PA 14
#6 Lenoir-Rhyne 29, Mars Hill 21
UVa-Wise 31, Catawba 28
Bowie State 31, Livingstone 17
Johnson C Smith 21, #21 Virginia Union 16
Fayetteville State 31, Elizabeth City State 7
Open Week: Chowan (0-2), St Augustine’s (program suspended for 2024)
NC Division Three (Five Teams)
Huntingdon-AL 49, North Carolina Wesleyan 28
Guilford 44, Sewanee 35
Brevard 42, Belhaven 26
Methodist 17, Greensboro 14
