The ACC has announced its full Friday night slate for the 2026 college football season.
Throughout the year, the ACC will have 15 Friday night games featuring at least 1 league opponent, with many of those matchups being contested as a conference game.
The slate kicks off with Miami at Stanford in a late-night viewing window at 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 4. That game is one of only a handful of power-conference matchups in Week 1.
In Week 2, there are 4 Friday night contests with 3 of the games featuring an ACC team and an FCS opponent. The headliner is Rutgers vs. Boston College on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. That game will serve as Boston College’s annual Red Bandana Game, which honors former Boston College lacrosse player Welles Crowther, who lost his life while guiding others to safety during the 9/11 attack in 2001.
ACC powers such as Miami, Clemson and Florida State will all play multiple Friday night games this season.
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FSU is set to host Florida in Week 13 on Black Friday in one of the more highly-anticipated Friday night games on the slate. The Noles also play at Pittsburgh on a Friday night during the month of November.
Here’s a look at the full schedule via the ACC’s press release:
- Week 1 – September 4: Miami at Stanford | 9 p.m. ET | ESPN
- Week 2 – September 11: Rutgers at Boston College | TBA
- Week 2 – September 11: Villanova at Louisville | TBA
- Week 2 – September 11: Richmond at NC State | TBA
- Week 2 – September 11: Norfolk State at Virginia | TBA
- Week 3 – September 18: Miami at Wake Forest | TBA
- Week 4 – September 25: Clemson at California | TBA
- Week 5 – October 2: Pitt at Virginia Tech | TBA
- Week 6 – October 9: Florida State at Louisville | TBA
- Week 8 – October 23: Duke at Virginia | TBA
- Week 8 – October 23: NC State at Stanford | TBA
- Week 10 – November 6: Virginia Tech at SMU | TBA
- Week 11 – November 13: Florida State at Pitt | TBA
- Week 12 – November 20: Clemson at Duke | TBA
- Week 13 – November 27: Florida at Florida State | 3:30 p.m. ET | ABC
Per the ACC, TV times and broadcast networks will be announced for the first 3 weeks of the season on May 27.
Spenser is a news editor for Saturday Down South and covers college football across all Saturday Football brands.
