The ACC has announced its new football schedule – including new conference entrants Cal, Stanford and SMU – for the 2024 through 2030 seasons. Though the league will expand to 17 teams next season, all conference members still play only eight ACC games each year.

UNC’s first trip out west will be in 2025, when it visits Cal. The Tar Heels last visited Berkeley in the opening game of the 2018 season. The 2025 season also sees Carolina host Stanford in Chapel Hill, in what will be the first game against the Cardinal since the 2016 Sun Bowl. The last regular-season meeting between the two came in 1998. Carolina will pay a return visit to “The Farm” in 2027.

As for SMU, the Tar Heels won’t visit Dallas until 2028, and won’t host the Mustangs until 2030. The 2030 season will also see Carolina pay a second visit to Berkeley (Cal visits Chapel Hill in 2029).

The new model includes three protected, annual opponents for the Tar Heels: Virginia, Duke and NC State. UNC will host the Wolfpack and visit the Blue Devils and Cavaliers in 2024. Other ACC matchups next season include home dates with Georgia Tech, Pittsburgh and Wake Forest and visits to Boston College and Florida State.

For a full list of UNC’s future conference games through 2030, click here.

 

Featured image via USA Today Sports/Joshua S. Kelly

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