ESPN and the Atlantic Coast Conference have sought to move up the annual South Carolina-Clemson football game by one day, according to court documents filed Monday as part of Clemson's lawsuit against the ACC.

David Hood of TigerNet.com was the first to report the news.

The network and the league asked Clemson to move their annual rival game from Saturday, November 30th to Black Friday, November 29th, the day after Thanksgiving. Clemson declined the offer. The game was supposed to be played in prime time.

According to Exhibit A of Clemson's filing, the ACC “offered concessions to induce Clemson to make the change.” One of the concessions included that South Carolina would reciprocate the move in the future.

The game, which has traditionally been played sometime in November since 1960, is still scheduled for Saturday, November 30.

The last time the game was not played in November was in 1959, on October 22nd.

The ACC was not happy with Clemson's decision to reject the move, according to an email exchange between the league's senior associate commissioner Michael Strickland and Clemson athletic director Graham Neff. The email noted that other schools in the conference had moved their games to the Friday after Thanksgiving, including Georgia Tech-Georgia, Florida State-Florida, North Carolina-Notre Dame, Virginia-Virginia Tech and North Carolina-NC State.

“As you have been informed throughout this process, the conference office is disappointed with Clemson University's lack of cooperation on this matter,” Strickland wrote. “As all ACC members know, it is incumbent upon the ACC and its institutions to work in good faith with ESPN on game scheduling issues. This cooperation maximizes the value of our relationship with our media partner and strengthens our future together. Clemson's decision not to do so in this case is detrimental to that goal.”

In addition to moving Clemson's game against South Carolina, the ACC also wanted the Tigers' Nov. 23 game against The Citadel to start at noon, Clemson's 2027 Labor Day game against NC State to be moved to Clemson, and a maximum of two ACC away games to be played in prime time.

The legal battle between Clemson and the ACC continued Tuesday with a hearing at the Mecklenburg County Courthouse in Charlotte.

At that hearing, a North Carolina judge heard arguments on Clemson's motions to dismiss and stay (essentially pause) the ACC's countersuit against Clemson.

On March 19, Clemson took the historic and dramatic step of suing the ACC over its strict “grant of rights” agreement and an “exorbitant” exit fee. For Clemson, a founding member of the ACC that has competed in the conference for 71 years, it was a clear sign that the school wants a new, more financially lucrative conference for its powerful football program and the rest of its sports. Florida State is also suing the league.

The Tigers are particularly targeting the ACC's rights allocation, a legal document that binds them to the conference until 2036.

A day later, the ACC filed a countersuit against Clemson.

A hearing on the original lawsuit will be held on July 12, when a Pickens County judge will rule on ACC's motions to dismiss and stay Clemson's lawsuit in South Carolina.