ACC unveils complete 17-team 2024 football schedule

Andrea Adelson, ESPN

• Senior Citizen WriterJan 24, 2024, 05:05 PM ET Close ACC press reporter.
• Signed up with ESPN.com in 2010.
• Graduate of the University of Florida.The ACC announced its complete 2024

schedule Wednesday, featuring brand-new members Cal, Stanford and SMU as part of the expanded 17-team football league.The league previously unveiled its seven-year scheduling

model through 2030, with yearly conference challengers for each group. Although groups understood which other teams they would be playing this coming season, on Wednesday they found out their specific dates.Cal and Stanford will open ACC play on the roadway– the Cardinal at Syracuse on Friday, Sept. 20, and the Bears the next day at Florida State. SMU opens ACC play the next week, with a home game against the defending ACC champ Seminoles. https://t.co/O6gCEI0fHa pic.twitter.com/Nh3v9dIFG2!.?.!— ACC Football(@ACCFootball)January 24, 2024 In developing the schedule with 3 new members– including two based upon the West Coast– the conference attempted to be strategic with journey and open dates. Stanford, for example, has an open date before taking a trip to Syracuse, and then an additional day to prepare for a road game the next week at Clemson on Sept. 28. Cal has an open date

after its game at Florida State, then plays its ACC home opener against Miami on Oct. 5. Stanford opens ACC dip into home the same day against Virginia Tech. The ACC wished to provide its 3 new members strong football brands for their home openers, to assist develop enjoyment on their respective campuses.”The 2024 ACC football schedule is significant for so many reasons. As always, there’s tremendous anticipation and excitement surrounding the upcoming season, which this year will include our newest members in Cal, SMU and Stanford,”ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said in a statement.” Throughout the entire process– from developing the brand-new design and developing the complete 2024 schedule– the subscription was extremely thoughtful and committed to producing an amazing, fair, and balanced schedule with our student-athlete experience as the leading priority. In between novice matches, meaningful rivalry games and as soon as again playing arguably the toughest collection of non-conference challengers– there will be no scarcity of

interest in ACC football throughout the season.”Editor’s Picks Among the other highlights: Florida State and Georgia Tech open the season in Dublin on Aug. 24, then the Seminoles host Boston College on Labor Day night Sept. 2– giving them 2 conference games to open the season over the period of 10 days. That is a byproduct of scheduling work done years previously, when the ACC

identified that

BC and Florida State would use Labor Day night– well before the Seminoles were approached with an opportunity to play in Ireland in Week 0. The Seminoles likewise play their two safeguarded competition games in October– Oct. 5 in your home against Clemson, with former Tigers quarterback DJ Uiagalelei now at Florida State, then at Miami on Oct. 26. Clemson opens the season versus Georgia in what should be a game with championship game implications. The Tigers also play at Virginia Tech on Nov.

9, the very same day Florida State takes a trip to face Notre Dame.The league will continue to play 8 conference games without departments. All 17 groups will play each other a minimum of two times over the next 7 seasons– as soon as at home and as soon as on the

roadway. There are 16 protected matches: Boston College-Syracuse, Boston College-Pitt, Syracuse-Pitt, North Carolina-Virginia, North Carolina-Duke, North Carolina-NC State, NC State-Wake Forest, NC State-Duke, Duke-Wake Forest, Virginia Tech-Virginia, Florida State-Clemson, Miami-Florida State, Miami-Virginia Tech, Stanford-Cal, Stanford-SMU and Cal-SMU. The Cal-SMU game is set for Week 14 and will remain on the final weekend of the regular season moving on. Without departments, the leading two teams in the standings at the end of the season will play in the ACC championship game in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Dec. 7.