ACC Releases Full 2024 Football Schedule
During a two-hour special ACC Huddle on Wednesday night, the Atlantic Coast Conference confirmed its football schedule for 2024.
It will be the first season with 17 teams under a new scheduling model. The 2024 football calendar release show will air on the ACC Network and at the same time on ESPN2.
Every team in the conference will play eight games each season. Throughout seven seasons, all 17 teams will play each other at least twice, once at home and once on the road.
Over the next seven years, each of the 14 teams in the current conference will play three times in California. No team will go to California back-to-back seasons.
“The ACC football schedule for 2024 is important for many reasons. “As always, there’s a lot of excitement and anticipation for the coming season.
This year, our newest members, Cal, SMU, and Stanford, will be joining us,” said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D.
“The membership was very thoughtful and dedicated to making an exciting, fair, balanced calendar with our student-athletes experience in the top priority throughout the whole process, from coming up with the new model to putting together the entire 2024 schedule.”
There will be a lot of interest in ACC football all season long, with first-time matchups, important rivalry games, and what is likely to be the toughest group of non-conference opponents ever.
The ACC Football Championship Game will be held at Bank of America Stadium to Charlotte, North Carolina, on the first Saturday in December. It will be between the top two teams in the conference in terms of winning percentage.
The ACC released its full 2024 schedule on Wednesday. The bigger 17-team football league will include new teams Cal, Stanford, and SMU.
The ACC Football season is now in its 72nd year. This is the first season of a new seven-year schedule that was announced in October and runs from 2024 to 2030.
The league already announced its seven-year schedule through 2030, which gives each team an annual conference opponent.
It was already known which teams each team would play this season, but on Wednesday, they got the exact dates.
Cal and Stanford will both start ACC play on the road. Stanford will play at Syracuse on Friday, September 20, and the Bears will play at Florida State the next day.
The next week, SMU’s first ACC game is at home against the 2016 ACC champion Seminoles.
The meeting’s organizers tried to remain strategic in road trips and flexible dates when making the schedule for three new members, two of whom were from the West Coast.
Stanford has a day off before going to Syracuse, and then they have an extra day to get ready for a road game at Clemson the following week, on September 28.
Cal doesn’t have a game after its trip to Florida State. On Oct. 5, it hosts its first ACC game against Miami.
the first game of the ACC season is at home on the same day toward Virginia Tech. The ACC wanted its three freshmen to have strong football teams for their home games to help get people excited on their campuses.
“There are many important things about the 2024 ACC football schedule. ACC director Jim Phillips said in a statement, “As always, there’s a lot of excitement and anticipation about the upcoming season. This year, our newest members—Cal, SMU, and Stanford—will be joining us.”
“From coming up with the new model to making the whole 2024 schedule, the membership was very thoughtful and dedicated to making an exciting, fair, balanced schedule with the experience of our student-athletes as the main focus.”
There will be a lot of excitement in ACC football all season long, with first-time matchups, important rivalry games, and what is likely to be the toughest group of non-conference opponents ever.
Georgia plays Clemson in the first game of the season, which could be a national championship game.
The Tigers also play Virginia Tech on November 9. That same day, Florida State goes to Notre Dame to play.
The league will still have eight group games with no divisions. Twenty-seven years from now, all seventeen teams will face each other a minimum of twice, once at their homes and once away.