ACC announces 2025 football season opening conference contests for all 17 teams

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January 24, 2025

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (the.ACC.com) – Ahead of the ACC Huddle: Football schedule released Specially scheduled for Monday, January 27 from 9-11 p.m. ET on the ACC Network and simulcast on ESPN2 from 9-10 p.m. ET, the Atlantic Coast Conference revealed the conference opening contests for all 17 programs of the next 2025 season.

North Carolina and new head coach Bill Belichick will kick off their ACC schedule at home against the defending ACC champion Clemson Tigers, led by head coach Dabo Swinney (Saturday 4 October) during week 6. The same day, Miami will begin its conference season. against in-state rivals Florida State and SMU, who went a perfect 8-0 in ACC play last season, begin the championship game at home against Syracuse (Saturday, Oct. 4).

ACC intraconference play begins in week three with the longest-running ACC football rivalry as NC State plays Wake Forest on Thursday, September 11 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Two days later, on Saturday, September 13, Boston College and Stanford will begin their respective conference seasons, as will Clemson and Georgia Tech with a conference contest in Atlanta, Georgia.

On Saturday, September 20, Syracuse will open its conference season on the road at Clemson, Duke will begin its ACC slate at home against rival NC State and Virginia will open its conference schedule at home against Stanford for the first time ever. meeting between the two teams on the field.

In Week 5, Florida State will play its first ACC contest of the season on the road at Virginia (Friday, September 26), while California begins its second year in the ACC at Boston College (Saturday, September 27 ). Week 5 also features other conference openers: Louisville and Pitt facing off and Virginia Tech at NC State.

On Thursday, January 23, the league announced its game schedule for Weeks 0 and 1 of the 2025 season. The schedule includes five straight days of ACC football over Labor Day weekend and kicks off with seven teams from the The ACC opens with Power 4 non-conference opponents, including Notre Dame, and five others against FBS foes. The ACC Labor Day weekend is highlighted by a football doubleheader on Sunday, August 31 featuring Miami and Virginia Tech against top 25 competitors. Opening week ends with North Carolina hosting TCU on Monday, September 1, Labor Day, as Bill Belichick makes his coaching debut on a familiar night.

Sunday night’s showdown between Miami and Notre Dame begins at 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC and North Carolina’s primetime game against TCU Monday night begins at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN.

The ACC schedule template for the 2024-2030 seasons, which was revealed exclusively on ACC Network in October 2023, will continue without a division, feature 17 schools and once again include 68 conference games. Based on conference winning percentage, the top two teams will face off in the ACC Football Championship Game on the first Saturday in December at Bank of America Stadium in Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina.

THE ACC Huddle: Football schedule released special will announce the full 2025 ACC football schedule on Monday, January 27 from 9-11 p.m. ET on the ACC Network, with the first hour from 9-10 p.m. ET simulcast on ESPN2.