Clemson’s Halloween trip to Florida State now has a kickoff time, and it comes under the lights.
The ACC announced its Week 9 schedule, and the Tigers will face the Seminoles at 7 p.m. on Oct. 31 at Doak Campbell Stadium. The game will air on the ACC Network.
Clemson has spent much of this season in night-game territory, and that trend continues as October closes. If the Tigers can get past Virginia Tech at home this weekend, they’ll head to Tallahassee with one of the stronger ACC records in the league.
The setup adds a little extra edge to the trip. It’s Florida State on Halloween night, in a road environment that already carries weight before the lights even come on.
Clemson enters at 4-2, with its two losses coming against LSU and Miami, the only ranked teams on its schedule. The Tigers have also won their last two meetings with Florida State, including a 24-10 victory at Memorial Stadium last season.
Florida State, meanwhile, is 3-4 and sitting near the bottom of the conference standings at 1-3 in ACC play. The Seminoles’ league win came in convincing fashion, a 38-7 home defeat of Virginia.
But Mike Norvell’s team has had trouble finishing. It forced four turnovers in its first ACC game against SMU and still lost by three at home.
It also led Alabama 21-6 in Tuscaloosa before dropping that game by two scores. Last week, Miami came from behind in Coral Gables and beat the Seminoles in double overtime.
Florida State will have the weekend off before hosting Clemson, which gives the Seminoles extra time to reset before facing a Tigers team that will be looking to keep building momentum offensively.
The Halloween matchup will be Clemson’s sixth night game in eight games this season. The only ACC game the Tigers have played that wasn’t under the lights was North Carolina, though even that one was interrupted by a lightning delay in the fourth quarter.
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