CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Syracuse and Wake Forest will hold their 2027 opener in Canada.
The Atlantic Coast Conference and ESPN Events announced Thursday that the Orange and Demon Deacons will meet for a Week Zero game at Toronto's BMO Field. That game would take place either Aug. 28 or 29 and would air nationally on ABC or ESPN.
This would be the first NCAA college football game played at BMO Field, which is home to the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts, Major League Soccer's Toronto FC and the Canadian national soccer teams. It is also a host stadium for this summer's FIFA World Cup.
The game will count as one of Wake Forest's home ACC games and as a league game. It will take place roughly four hours from Syracuse's campus in New York.
This is the latest of multiple international games played by ACC teams. Games on this fall's schedule include North Carolina and TCU in Dublin, Ireland, as well as N.C. State facing Virginia in Rio de Janeiro.
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FILE - Wake Forest head coach Jake Dickert argues for a penalty during the second half of the Duke's Mayo Bowl NCAA college football game against Mississippi State, Jan. 2, 2026, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Scott Kinser, File)
FILE - Syracuse head coach Fran Brown looks on against Clemson in the first half of an NCAA college football game Sept. 20, 2025, in Clemson, S.C. (AP Photo/Jacob Kupferman, File)
BOGUE CHITTO, Miss. (AP) — Powerful storms that spawned at least three tornadoes tore through several Mississippi counties, damaging around 500 homes, uprooting trees and injuring at least 17 people, authorities said Thursday.
There were no reports of deaths after the tornadoes cut across the state's southwest late Wednesday evening, said Scott Simmons, a spokesperson for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
He said 12 of those hurt were transported from a hard-hit trailer park in the small community of Bogue Chitto, about an hour's drive south of the state capital in rural Lincoln County.
Most of the two dozen homes at Gene’s Mobile Home Supply were flattened into heaps of splintered boards and twisted metal. People picked through the debris Thursday morning under cloudy skies as a chain saw buzzed in the background.
Krystal Miller and six others — including babies as young as 4 weeks old — grabbed a Bible and sheltered in their home's hallway when the tornado sent the building cartwheeling through the air.
“We just flipped, and it threw us all out,” she said. “It scattered everybody out. ... I can’t find the Bible.”
She said her young son was in the hospital for monitoring and another child was injured in the face.
“The trailer is in pieces but we made it out,” Miller said. “I'm feeling grateful.”
One intact trailer lay flipped on its roof near the tree line. Several cars, some with hazard lights blinking, appeared to have been picked up by the storm.
“We know there were at least three tornadoes,” said Daniel Lamb, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service office in Jackson.
“The same storm produced at least two tornadoes from Franklin, Lincoln into Lawrence counties, and then there was another one from Lamar possibly into Forest County.”
He said there may have been more. “Those are just the ones that we are able to confirm by radar before even having gone down there.”
“Pray for Mississippi,” Gov. Tate Reeves posted online, saying the state Emergency Management Agency was coordinating response efforts.
Many roads were still blocked in Lincoln County and teams from the agency were assessing the damage.
“We ask that you please refrain from sightseeing as crews are working,” the department posted early Thursday.
The governor said a volunteer rescue group was providing a 50-person shelter pod, a high-powered generator and 10 pallets of supplies to the county, which reported at least 200 damaged homes.
Lamar County to the southeast reported about 275 homes damaged, according to the state emergency management agency. Another 10 to 12 homes were damaged in Lawrence County.
More storms were expected Thursday with the possibility of tornadoes across parts of Alabama, Georgia and Florida, the weather service said. Strong storms also were possible for parts of the Carolinas and Texas.
McCormack reported from Concord, New Hampshire.
Damage to Gene’s Mobile Home Supply, a trailer park in Bogue Chitto, Miss., is seen Thursday, May, 7, 2026, after a tornado cut across the state. (AP Photo/Jack Brook)
People stand among debris at Gene's Mobile Home Supply, a trailer park in Bogue Chitto, Miss., Thursday, May, 7, 2026, after a tornado cut across the state. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
A doll and other items are seen amid the destruction at Gene’s Mobile Home Supply, a trailer park in Bogue Chitto, Miss., on Thursday, May 7, 2026, after a tornado cut across the state. (Matt WIlliamson/Enterprise-Journal via AP)
A man stands among debris at Gene's Mobile Home Supply, a trailer park in Bogue Chitto, Miss., Thursday, May, 7, 2026, after a tornado cut across the state. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
People stand among debris at Gene's Mobile Home Supply, a trailer park in Bogue Chitto, Miss., Thursday, May, 7, 2026, after a tornado cut across the state. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
In this frame grab from video taken by WDAM, damaged trees and a house or structure following a storm that tore through part of Lamar County, Mississippi, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (WDAM via AP)
