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FBS Notes: ACC adding football replay center

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May 12, 2016 at 4:32 pm.

Oct 24, 2015; Blacksburg, VA, USA; Duke Blue Devils quarterback Thomas Sirk (1) scores the game-winning two point conversion as Virginia Tech Hokies defensive tackle Luther Maddy (92) defends in quadruple overtime at Lane Stadium. The Blue Devils won 45-43 in quadruple overtime. Photo Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports

Oct 24, 2015; Blacksburg, VA, USA; Duke Blue Devils quarterback Thomas Sirk (1) scores the game-winning two point conversion as Virginia Tech Hokies defensive tackle Luther Maddy (92) defends in quadruple overtime at Lane Stadium. The Blue Devils won 45-43 in quadruple overtime. Photo Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports

The Atlantic Coast Conference will become the first conference to add a replay review center for football.

At the end of the ACC’s spring meetings on Thursday in Amelia Island, Fla., conference officials announced that on-site officials will work with a review center for all ACC games and nonconference home games starting this fall.

Notre Dame, which is part of the ACC in all sports except football, plays five conference schools each year and will comply with the new replay system.

Replay officials at the operations center in Greensboro, N.C., will be able to assist with calls that are challenged by coaches and help the officials at the game make rulings through headset communications.

–Thomas Sirk is ahead of schedule in his recovery from a torn Achilles and could be ready for Duke’s season-opener.

Head coach David Cutcliffe said at the ACC spring meetings there is a chance Sirk is under center Sept. 3 against N.C. Central, seven months after he was injured.

With Sirk injured in February after tearing his left Achilles three years ago, the Blue Devils prepared Parker Boehme during spring practice for the possibility he would be the starter in September.

–Mississippi officials have confirmed a text message conversation published on Laremy Tunsil’s Instagram account during the NFL draft did occur last year but are still investigating whether the messages were altered, ESPN’s Outside the Lines reported Thursday.

The conversations show Tunsil asking Ole Miss assistant athletic director John Miller for money to pay rent and his mother’s $305 utility bill in early 2015. Miller directs Tunsil to “see Barney next week,” a reference to assistant athletic director for high school and junior college relations Barney Farrar.

The firestorm erupted during the draft as Tunsil plummeted down the board and was finally selected 13th overall by the Miami Dolphins. The offensive tackle was forecast to go as high as No. 3.

Tunsil said on April 28 that he did receive money from an Ole Miss coach. He has refused to elaborate further.

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