With the Atlantic Coast Conference adding Cal, SMU and Stanford next year, the conference had to change its scheduling model to fit 17 teams from 2024 through 2030.
The new format will continue to have teams play eight ACC games per season, with all 17 teams playing each other at least twice over the next seven years — once at home and once on the road. Miami and the other 13 current ACC teams will play in California three times each in the seven years. No team will have to travel to California in back-to-back seasons, the league announced.
The biggest news for the Hurricanes is that the Miami-Virginia Tech rivalry game will be an annual competition once again. Miami-Florida State also remains a protected rivalry game. Under the previous schedule model, the Hurricanes played Boston College, Florida State and Louisville each year.
The number of annual conference games increases from 56 to 68, the league said in a press release.
“We are extremely excited to welcome Cal, SMU and Stanford to the ACC and look forward to having them compete beginning in the fall of 2024,” ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips said in a press release. “Throughout the entire scheduling model process, the membership was incredibly thoughtful and purposeful in building a creative, flexible and aggressive conference scheduling model while keeping the student-athlete experience at the forefront. The excitement and anticipation for our teams, alumni and fans will undoubtedly build as we look ahead to the future of this incredible conference.”
Miami coach Mario Cristobal, who spent five years coaching at Oregon, including four as the Ducks’ head coach, said the chance to play on the West Coast gives the Hurricanes more opportunities off the field as well as on it.
“The recruiting footprint grows, right?” Cristobal said. “It stretches out. We head out there anyways for that, but having coached out in the Pac-12 and whatnot, just recognizing there’s just really good football out on the West Coast. More opportunities for us, for them, for our conference, for alumni, for recruiting, so I think it’s all win-win.”
Here are the Hurricanes’ conference opponents through 2030:
2024
Home: Duke, FSU, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest
Away: Cal, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Syracuse
2025
Home: Louisville, N.C State, Stanford, Syracuse
Away: FSU, Pittsburgh, SMU, Virginia Tech
2026
Home: Boston College, FSU, Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech
Away: Clemson, North Carolina, Stanford, Wake Forest
2027
Home: Cal, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Virginia
Away: Duke, FSU, N.C. State, Virginia Tech
2028
Home: Duke, FSU, Stanford, Virginia Tech
Away: Boston College, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Virginia
2029
Home: Clemson, North Carolina, SMU, Wake Forest
Away: Cal, FSU, N.C. State, Virginia Tech
2030
Home: Boston College, FSU, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech
Away: Clemson, North Carolina, SMU, Virginia
