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The Syracuse Orange will meet the Clemson Tigers in an ACC matchup in week 8 on Saturday afternoon from Clemson Memorial Stadium.

The Boilermakers have dropped 15 in a row to this week’s foe, Wisconsin, but they’re better than the Badgers. The Illini, off this week, will just have to play catch-up.

Our writers pick all the Big Ten games and six of the best national college football contests for Week 8.

From Clemson-Syracuse to Oregon-UCLA and more, our experts predict this weekend’s games.

ACC schedule and previews for all of the Week 8 games:

The season of recalibrated expectations comes for everyone, eventually — even Clemson, at this very point last fall, after the loss at Pittsburgh. It is the moment when whatever plans were made in August are officially moot, and nothing pushes a team further down the spiral than losing its quarterback.

We may not see as many titans fall as we saw a week ago but there are still plenty of hugely consequential matchups on the schedule this week.

Take a look at the ballot I submitted before the ACC releases preseason accolades.

It’s that time of year when quality of losses and strength of schedules force our SI committee to make some close calls.