ACC releases 17-team football scheduling format, easing west coast travel for each school


With the ACC expanding westward in 2024, adding California, Stanford and SMU, the conference released its new, 17-team scheduling format for the next seven seasons Monday night.

The conference alleviated some schools’ fear of excessive travel by mandating that the current 14 schools will play a total of only three times each in California through 203o.

Pitt will have two annually protected opponents — longtime eastern rivals Boston College and Syracuse — and each of the ACC’s 17 teams will play each other at least twice over the next seven seasons, once at home and once on the road. No team will travel west in consecutive seasons.

Each of the ACC’s 17 teams will play each other at least twice over the next seven seasons, once at home and once on the road.

Pitt’s first game on the west coast will be during the 2025 season at Stanford.

At the end of the season after each team plays eight conference games (four home, four away), the two top teams by ACC winning percentage will meet in the annual ACC championship game.

Here are Pitt’s conference opponents for the 2024-2030 seasons:

2024

Home: California, Clemson, Syracuse, Virginia

Away: Boston College, Louisville, North Carolina, SMU

2025

Home: Boston College, Louisville, Miami, NC State

Away: Florida State, Georgia Tech, Stanford, Syracuse

2026

Home: Florida State, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Syracuse

Away: Boston College, Louisville, Miami, Virginia Tech

2027

Home: Boston College, Cal, Duke, SMU

Away: Florida State, N.C. State, Syracuse, Virginia

2028

Home: Miami, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest

Away: Boston College, California, Clemson, Georgia Tech

2029

Home: Boston College, Clemson, Louisville, Stanford

Away: Duke, N.C. State, Syracuse, Virginia Tech

2030

Home: N.C. State, SMU, Syracuse, Virginia Tech

Away: Boston College, Louisville, Stanford, Wake Forest

Jerry DiPaola is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Jerry by email at [email protected] or via Twitter .


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