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GREENSBORO, North Carolina (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference on Thursday announced its football schedule for 2021, reverting to two divisions – Atlantic and Coastal – with each team playing eight conference games and four non-conference games. The return to a traditional schedule is contingent on national, state and local health guidelines allowing such competition to occur.
League members have also chosen to play the 2021 season as originally planned and as a result there are several matches on the repeat site for 2019 and 2020. Each ACC team will play six matches of division, a permanent cross opponent and a rotating opponent from the opposite division.
If public health guidelines allow, the CCA will launch the 2021 calendar on the Labor Day weekend with matches Thursday (September 2), Friday (September 3), Saturday (September 4), Sunday (September 5). ) and Monday. (September 6). NC State will face USF in Raleigh on Thursday, September 2, and Virginia Tech will host North Carolina in the first conference game of the season on Thursday, September 2 or Friday, September 3. Wake Forest will host Old Dominion on Friday September 3rd.
The ACC teams will play two games at neutral venue in Atlanta on opening weekend as part of the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Series at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Miami will face reigning national champion Alabama on Saturday, September 4, and Louisville will face Ole Miss on Monday, September 6. Clemson and Georgia – two teams that finished in the top 10 last year – will meet in the Duke’s Mayo Classic in Charlotte, NC, at Bank of America Stadium on Saturday, September 4.
Notre Dame, who competed as a full ACC football member last year, is returning to independent status and will play five non-conference games against an ACC competition, starting with one on the road to Florida State on Sunday, September 5. play road games at Virginia Tech on October 9 and Virginia on November 13, while hosting North Carolina on October 30 and Georgia Tech on November 20.
With 13 game weekends, the 2021 calendar includes an open date for each team and at least one scheduled conference contest every week, except for week two.
The ACC’s non-conference schedule continues to be the toughest in the country. In addition to 23 games against opponents from Power 5 (including Notre Dame), the ACC will play 13 non-conference games against teams ranked in the latest Top 25 AP 2020 poll. The 14 teams play at least one non-conference Power opponent. 5, while nine teams – Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, Virginia and Virginia Tech – play two. For the second time in the past three years, North Carolina and Wake Forest will meet in a non-conference game on November 6.
The 2021 CCA Football Championship game returns to the first Saturday in December (December 4) at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, NC, and will feature the winner of the Atlantic Division against the winner of the Division. coastal.
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