Let the tailgate planning begin. Here's the release from the ACC regarding the 2010 ACC football schedule:
GREENSBORO, N.C.--The 2010 ACC football schedule released today by Commissioner John Swofford is an ambitious slate which has conference teams playing 11 games against teams ranked in the final 2009 AP poll, 14 against opponents that are projected to be in the nation’s pre-season Top 25 and 26 games against teams which participated in 2009 post-season bowl games.
In all, the schedule is comprised of 97 games, including 48 conference match-ups, over a span of 13 weeks and is capped off with the Sixth Annual Dr Pepper Atlantic Coast Conference Football Championship Game, which this year will be played on Saturday, Dec. 4 in Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C.
ACC teams will face 48 non-conference opponents who had a combined winning percentage of .614 in 2009, including 35 games against FBS opponents who won 62 percent of their games last fall.
Twenty-six of the league’s 48 non-conference games (54 percent) are against 22 teams that earned bowl berths in 2009. This includes 11 games with teams which finished ranked in the nation’s final Top 25 (AP) in 2009 in defending national champion Alabama (Duke), third-ranked Florida (Florida State), fourth-ranked Boise State (Virginia Tech), 5th-ranked Ohio State (Miami), 8th-ranked Cincinnati (NC State), 12th-ranked BYU (Florida State), 15th-ranked Pittsburgh (Miami), 17th-ranked LSU (North Carolina), 22nd-ranked Southern California (Virginia), 23rd-ranked Central Michigan (Virginia Tech) and 25th-ranked West Virginia (Maryland).
ACC teams will also play 14 games against 11 teams selected by ESPN.com in their early pre-season Top 25 including matches with the projected top three teams in Alabama, Ohio State (2nd) and Boise State (3rd).
Non-conference opponents who earned bowl bids this past season are Alabama, Auburn, Boise State, Brigham Young, Central Michigan, Cincinnati, East Carolina (3 games with ACC), Florida, Georgia, LSU, Middle Tennessee, Navy (3 games with ACC), Ohio State, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, South Carolina, South Florida, Southern California, Stanford, UCF and West Virginia.
The Conference will again enjoy national exposure on the opening weekend of the season, as North Carolina will face LSU in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Classic played before a national TV audience on Sept. 4 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. Two days later, on Sept. 6, the ACC will be involved in a nationally-televised Labor Day doubleheader on ESPN, with Maryland meeting Navy at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md., at 4 p.m., followed by Virginia Tech, projected as the pre-season 6th-ranked team in the ESPN.com rankings, playing Boise State, ESPN.com’s third-ranked team, at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. at 8 p.m.
In all, the ACC will play four games on Thursday night throughout the year that will be nationally televised by ESPN beginning with NC State hosting Cincinnati on Sept. 16, but also including Miami at Pittsburgh (Sept. 23), Florida State at NC State (Oct. 28) and Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech (Nov. 4). Each of the ESPN Thursday night appearances are set for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff.
The 2010 ACC football schedule is as follows:
Thursday, September 2
Florida A&M at Miami
Presbyterian at Wake Forest
Saturday, September 4
Weber State at Boston College
North Texas at Clemson
Elon at Duke
Samford at Florida State
South Carolina State at Georgia Tech
LSU vs. North Carolina (Atlanta)
Western Carolina at NC State
Richmond at Virginia
Monday, September 6
Navy vs. Maryland
(Baltimore), ESPN, 4 pm
Boise State vs. Virginia Tech,
(Washington), ESPN, 8 pm
Saturday, September 11
Kent State at Boston College
Presbyterian at Clemson
Duke at Wake Forest
Florida State at Oklahoma
Georgia Tech at Kansas
Morgan State at Maryland
Miami at Ohio State
NC State at UCF
Virginia at Southern California
James Madison at Virginia Tech
Thursday, September 16
Cincinnati at NC State, ESPN, 7:30 pm
Saturday, September 18
Clemson at Auburn
Alabama at Duke
BYU at Florida State
Georgia Tech at North Carolina
Maryland at West Virginia
East Carolina at Virginia Tech
Wake Forest at Stanford
Thursday, September 23
Miami at Pittsburgh, ESPN, 7:30 pm
Saturday, September 25
Virginia Tech at Boston College
Army at Duke
Wake Forest at Florida State
NC State at Georgia Tech
Florida International at Maryland
North Carolina at Rutgers
VMI at Virginia
Saturday, October 2
Notre Dame at Boston College
Miami at Clemson
Duke at Maryland
Florida State at Virginia
Georgia Tech at Wake Forest
East Carolina at North Carolina
Virginia Tech at NC State
Saturday, October 9
Boston College at NC State
Clemson at North Carolina
Florida State at Miami
Virginia at Georgia Tech
Central Michigan at Virginia Tech
Navy at Wake Forest
Saturday, October 16
Boston College at Florida State
Maryland at Clemson
Miami at Duke
North Carolina at Virginia
Middle Tennessee at Georgia Tech
NC State at East Carolina
Wake Forest at Virginia Tech
Saturday, October 23
Maryland at Boston College
Georgia Tech at Clemson
Duke at Virginia Tech
North Carolina at Miami
Eastern Michigan at Virginia
Thursday, October 28
Florida State at NC State, ESPN, 7:30 pm
Saturday, October 30
Clemson at Boston College
Duke at Navy
Wake Forest at Maryland
Miami at Virginia
William & Mary at North Carolina
Thursday, November 4
Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech, ESPN, 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 6
Boston College at Wake Forest
NC State at Clemson
Virginia at Duke
North Carolina at Florida State
Maryland at Miami
Saturday, November 13
Boston College at Duke
Clemson at Florida State
Miami at Georgia Tech
Maryland at Virginia
Virginia Tech at North Carolina
Wake Forest at NC State
Saturday, November 20
Virginia at Boston College
Clemson at Wake Forest
Duke at Georgia Tech
Florida State at Maryland
Virginia Tech at Miami
NC State at North Carolina
Saturday, November 27
Boston College at Syracuse
South Carolina at Clemson
North Carolina at Duke
Florida at Florida State
Georgia Tech at Georgia
NC State at Maryland
South Florida at Miami
Virginia at Virginia Tech
Wake Forest at Vanderbilt
Saturday, December 4
Dr Pepper ACC Championship Game
Charlotte
Thursday, February 4, 2010
2010 ACC football schedules released
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Carolina's schedule is shaping up to possibly being the toughest in the entire country! 7 games against teams that could make appearances in the rankings(LSU, GT, Rutgers, Miami(Fl), FSU, Clemson, VT).
Presbyterian must be strapped for cash. There is no way they should be playing two ACC schools.
Miami's opening stretch is not kind either @Buckeyes, @ Pitt and @ Clemson in a row! I would love to meet the person responsible for that!
You think UNC has a tough schedule...look at N.C. State's! Aside from the first two games- all but Wake and Maryland were ranked in the RPI Top 50!
WESTERN CAROLINA
@Central Florida
CINCINNATI (#8)
@Georgia Tech (#13)
VIRGINIA TECH (#10)
BOSTON COLLEGE (#48)
@East Carolina (#43)
FLORIDA ST. (#34)
@Clemson (#24)
WAKE FOREST
@North Carolina (#30)
@Maryland
Since the wolfies have the best coach in the State, why should that schedule scare you.
Tarheel Paul-
Don't hate because O'Brien is taking Butch out back and spanking that...
Bowl games or not, Tom O'Brien's teams have owned the Tar Heels and I would rather miss a bowl game than be perennial Meineke Car Care Bowl runner up.
Carolina might own basketball (aside from this year) but NC State will just continue to beat them up and down the football field.
Tarheel Paul,
...shouldn't a TRUE Carolina "fan" (aka: not one of those rednecks that buy UNC gear at Wal-Mart and then get on the ol' internet machine and make uneducated comments.) know that it is TAR HEELS and not TARHEELS?
Food for thought.
I guess Carolina might have the Wal-Mart fans but State owns the Tractor Supply fans. And if beating UNC is better than playing in a bowl game, you will be losers forever. Your day in the sun has passed and your ship has sailed. You have to play Toby's recruits now.
My gosh - watching UNC and State fans arguing with each other over whose football program is better is a lot like watching two Trekkies argue about their love lifes.
Interesting to read that, ACC teams will face 48 non-conference opponents who had a combined winning percentage, good post this is.
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