ACC Sign Callers Spotlighted on 2025 Manning Award Preseason Watch List

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – Four returning Atlantic Coast Conference quarterbacks have been named to the 2025 Manning Award Preseason Watch List, highlighting ACC expertise among the many nation’s greatest. The Manning Award uniquely considers postseason performances when deciding on its winner.

This 12 months’s 27-player watch checklist showcases elite passers from 9 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) conferences. Only returning starters had been eligible for the preseason checklist, however transfers and different newcomers will probably be evaluated because the season unfolds.

 

Created by the Allstate Sugar Bowl in tribute to the legendary faculty careers of Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning, the award’s winner is chosen by a panel of nationwide media and the Manning household themselves—making it one of many sport’s most revered honors.

 

The checklist will broaden all year long, with finalists named previous to the postseason. The 2025 Manning Award winner will probably be revealed following the College Football Playoff National Championship, guaranteeing each big-game efficiency counts.

 

ACC Players Named to the 2025 Manning Award Preseason Watch List

Name, School, Class

Cade Klubnik, Clemson, Senior

Haynes King, Georgia Tech, Senior

CJ Bailey, NC State, Sophomore

Kevin Jennings, SMU, Junior

 

In addition to the Manning Award’s yearly honor, every week in the course of the common season, eight quarterbacks are acknowledged as Manning Award Stars of the Week. Seventy-four quarterbacks had been honored in the course of the 2024 season and 570 completely different quarterbacks from 135 colleges have been acknowledged since 2011.

The Allstate Sugar Bowl has established itself as one of many premier faculty soccer bowl video games, having hosted 29 nationwide champions, 110 Hall of Fame gamers, 55 Hall of Fame coaches and 21 Heisman Trophy winners in its 91-year historical past. The 92nd Allstate Sugar Bowl Football Classic, which can double as a College Football Playoff Quarterfinal, is scheduled to be performed on January 1, 2026. In addition to soccer, the Sugar Bowl Committee yearly invests over $1 million into the group by way of the internet hosting and sponsorship of sporting occasions, awards, scholarships and clinics. Through these efforts, the group helps and honors hundreds of student-athletes every year, whereas injecting over $2.5 billion into the native financial system within the final decade. For extra info, go to www.AllstateSugarBowl.org.