Another New ACC Football Model: Hokies Opponents Set Through 2030

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1. Why do we play ODU every year? I don’t understand that. Otherwise the schedule is ok.

2. So we’re back to playing an average of 3 of the old eight ACC teams each season… there’s no resemblance to an ACC schedule of yesteryear… might as well be in the Big East still.

3. I’m confused on UNC – UVA, the oldest rivalry in the South. As I read the third paragraph it seems to indicate that that game is NOT a protected rivalry. But looking at the schedule to 2030 they are slated to play every year. How does everyone read this?

   1. It’s written properly. Remove the co ntent between the dashes and it reads:

      “The others include the North Carolina institutions and UNC-UVa.”

4. Hoping we would keep Wake on the home and away schedule. Winston/Salem is an easy drive from Metro ATL

5. I think the ACC did a pretty darn good job considering how tough it was to get it done. I like our protected rivalries and the chance to go out west some. That all being said, I wonder if the NCAA will eventually allow conference semi-final games as that would be the only way to insure a modicum of fairness in the ACCCG.

6. Love the travel opportunities for 2024. Might even be able to use all of my Frequent Flyer miles. Never been to every regular season VT game. Maxed at 11 one year. Have to start prioritizing. – but #1 has to be Stanford with #2 Miami and #3 Vandy. Then #4 Syracuse with #5 ODU and #6 Duke.

   Take a look at the 2026 schedule – looks like the Virginia State Championship will be played at Lane. How’d they forget Liberty? Plus – unexciting games vs GT, NC State and Pitt.

   Checking out Louisville this week-end.

   Just looked at the calendar – I’ll be 85 in 2030 – so might not be making all the games then. 🙂 .

7. So Notre Dame no longer plays ACC schools? Are they completely out of ACC in football?

   1. Watch them now declare that they want in and upset this whole schedule! Screw them!

   2. I’m pretty sure that ND will still play 5 Acc teams a year, not sure how their annual games with Stanford fit in

   3. Notre Dame has never been “in” for ACC football, except for the COVID year. But the arrangement that requires Notre Dame to play several ACC opponents every year continues. The benefit to the ACC is it adds two or three ACC home games that are marketable for television. The benefit to Notre Dame is that it helps fill out its schedule; otherwise, Notre Dame would have more games against the likes of Western Michigan or UConn.

      1. Almost feel like it’s more for the sake of the Olympic sports etc. a good conference for that. But yeah, fill in their regular season schedule, and why not? Louisville was the first to beat them in how many ACC games, been a great deal for them.

   4. ND is not a conference game, so not shown on these schedules.

8. Don’t think it’s right to make the teams travel like this. Cal teams in the ACC is ridiculous.

9. Also excited to have Miami back as a regular. I noticed that GT has NO protected opponents, the only team with none. And for the first time in 41 years, they will not play Clemson next year. Not sure why they had to end that tradition with the schools being two hours apart.. Clemson only has one protected opponent, FSU. Seems like they might be prepping for a Clemson exit. Looking forward to road trips to Dallas and the SF Bay Area.

   1. Louisville also has no protected opponents.

10. please, don’t anyone get all drummed up about this long-range schedule.
    when free shoes and maybe klumpsun leave the acc this December/January:
    it’s back to the “scheduling” drawing board.

    i’m not holding my breath, making any reservations, or buying advance tickets.
    who knows what – if anything – the acc will look like next year or even if there
    will be such a conference – even with a recognizable remnant of what we see now?

    thanks for the article and the “takes” on its implications and factoids … for now.

11. Whatever happened to the Notre Dame agreement? I see they’re on there for a home and home. Is that still part of the ACC agreement or did or will that change now too?

    1. Agreement stays the same. Play them, on average, about every three years.

12. I love this schedule. Whoever said the ACC is going to disband isn’t paying attention to this scehduling model. There are great matchups. The West Coast exposure will be great for the conference. Duke and Stanford are, for example, a natural, 2-top drawer academic schools on opposite coasts. BC/Stanford is also a natural. Cal vs. UNC and UVA, also naturals. SMU will give all the ACC schools exposure to the huge talent pool in Texas, esp. in Dallas. I can’t say enough about this. And whereas USC and UCLA are not going to like the B10 fall road weather, the fall weather in most ACC scholls is moderate, except for Pitt and BC; SU plays indoors. Otherwise, Blacksburg as we know can be miserable but ACC road games at BC, Pitt or Vt for Cal and Stanford can be scehduled early. Again, I really like what I see here. Also, on the academic front, the ACC is already the most-competitive conference. Add 2-more top tier schools, Stanford and Cal and the ACC is light years ahead of any other conference. .

    1. I, for one, can’t wait for the Stanford game. It’s a great match up. Cal has not been as strong traditionally but, I still think is a good game. Good exposure in the Bay Area. Serra, Oakland Tech, De La Salle, Acalanes, and Campolindo have produced some good football players over the years – perhaps this will help recruiting?

13. Wasn’t the “Aaron Rogers” bowl in SF, or am I mistaken. I thought the score was like 50 to 49.

    1. That was in Arizona

14. This may all change again if/when the ACC folds or merges in the next few years with another conference.

    1. Nonsense.

    2. We can only hope the ACC and BigX12 merge to form a 36 team league – giving us most of the old Big East, ACC, SWC/Big8, and Pac12.

15. Who’s gonna be at SMU with me in 2027??

    1. So 4 straight yrs of not playing UNC after not playing them this yr

       1. we’ll probably never play Mack Brown again at this rate. Don’t know if that is good or bad.

    2. Me!

    3. I’m in! Also for Stanford and Cal

    4. I’ll be there too!

    5. I plan on going Dallas and at least one or both of Standford and California.

16. I think this is exciting as hell! I’ve always wanted us to play in Cali and Palo Alto where Stanford plays is gorgeous with the mountains in the background of the stadium.

    Me and my daughter, a Hokie grad, and her college friends will be there for sure! Can’t wait!

    1. It’s “My daughter and I “ not “Me and my daughter.”

       1. Ok English grammar police.

          You sound like my mom growing up.

          Bama

          1. Lol !

          2. Your mom must have been a pre teen/teen pariah if she said things like that growing up…;)

       2. You point out that, but not the incorrect use of “further” in the article? It’s sad that someone that plans to write for a living, doesn’t understand the difference between further/farther.

17. Although expansion has added the burden of significantly more travel, I like the improved diversity of matchups rather than the same-old matchups we’ve gotten used to over the past 20 years. I also think that cross-regional matchups could potentially lead to better TV ratings.

18. I wonder if those Arizona and BYU home-and-home series gets canceled now.

19. I really like this. We play 20 ACC home games the next five years. 11 games are against UVA, Miami, Clemson, Louisville, FSU and NCST. That is 55% of our home games vs 33% of the ACC. I think we were done a solid there.

20. Oof… That 2026 home schedule is truly awful.

    1. 2027 and 2028 look like pretty good home slates though.

    2. All winnable games 😉

    3. Worse than this year?

    4. I’m guessing you are maybe an older person? one that still thinks of JMU as “FCS” instead of “top 25”? (currently they are 8-0 playing in the G5 Sun Belt and ranked #23)

       Personally, I don’t think that schedule looks all that bad, but I enjoy playing other instate teams, so to have 4 of them on the home schedule is pretty cool (though I’m not exactly jazzed about playing VMI).

       1. No upside to playing JMU. Any loss would horrible for recruiting and any win is “oh well, we should beat them. Aren’t they FCS?”

          1. If JMU keeps winning, it may be “aren’t they that Group of 5 team that got in the playoff?”

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