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It will be an interesting year for the ACC on the heels of a positive showing in the 2024 college football season. It made quite the impression by joining the Big Ten and the SEC as the only conferences to place multiple teams in the first 12-team College Football Playoff. Four ACC teams finished the year ranked in the AP Top 25 and two ACC players finished in the top-10 of Heisman Trophy voting, including finalist and former Miami quarterback Cam Ward.
Schools like North Carolina made an offseason splash by hiring Bill Belichick, who has never held a significant college coaching job. He did win six Super Bowls as coach of the NFL’s New England Patriots, though.
Now, we have a full glimpse at the ACC’s journey to repeating that success as the conference released its full schedule for the 2025 season on Monday night. So let’s now have a look at some of the biggest takeaways from the schedule reveal.
ACC can prove itself in Week 1
The first week of the 2025 college football season provides a huge opportunity for the ACC. The conference did place two teams in the College Football Playoff last season, but neither Clemson nor SMU made much of a splash once they got there, which sparked plenty of (largely unjustified) questions about the conference’s relative strength.
ACC schools will have every chance to silence those doubters in Week 1 with a huge slate of nonconference games. Seven ACC teams are scheduled to play a Power Four conference foe over Labor Day weekend.
Clemson hosts LSU in a battle between what could be two preseason top-10 teams. The same could be said for Miami’s home game against Notre Dame. Florida State will try to put a disastrous 2024 season behind it by opening 2025 against Alabama at home.
Those are the…
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Author : Will Backus
Publish date : 2025-01-28 16:22:00
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