Football May 29, 2025

ACC Announces Early-Season and Special Date Football Kickoff Times and Broadcast Schedule

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – With the start of the 2025 college football season just a few months away, the Atlantic Coast Conference, in conjunction with its television partners, has announced the kickoff times and network designations for more than 40 football games scheduled during the first three weeks of the 2025 season. The announcement also includes broadcast details for the league’s Thursday and Friday matchups throughout the season.

A record 12 games will be played on Fridays during the 2025 campaign, underscoring the ACC’s continued commitment to maximizing national exposure and fan engagement through primetime scheduling.

The initial broadcast schedule announced today, as well as the previous game time announcements made earlier this month from the ESPN and Disney Ad Sales Up Front presentation, includes:

28 games slated for ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, or ESPNU
14 games to be carried on ACC Network
5 games scheduled to air on CBS, NBC, or The CW

The 2025 ACC Football Championship Game from Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, will kick off at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday, December 6, on ABC.

Additional game times and television designations for the remainder of the season will be announced as the season progresses on a 12-day or six-day notice via theACC.com and on the ACC’s official digital platforms.

“As we get ready to kick off the 2025 ACC football season, the level of competition across the conference has never been higher," said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D. "Our programs are embracing a schedule that ranks among the toughest in the nation, highlighted by marquee non-conference matchups and a deep, dynamic conference slate. Our continued collaboration with Disney, ESPN, and ACC Network ensures that fans across the nation will have premier access to ACC Football on ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2, especially as we take over Friday nights. After a historic year of College Football Playoff viewership in 2024, we’re excited to keep pushing ACC Football forward in 2025.”

Listed in the schedule below are the games that have been selected for television as of May 29.

Toughest Non-Conference Schedule Again in 2025

ACC teams are scheduled to play 26 games against fellow Power 4 Conference opponents and Notre Dame in 2025, the most of any conference.
ACC teams are set to play 14 non-conference games against teams ranked in both the final 2024 College Football Rankings and the 2024 Associated Press (AP) Top 25 Poll.
ACC teams will play 35 non-conference games against opponents that appeared in a bowl game last year, including eight against teams that made the 12-team College Football Playoff.
ACC teams are scheduled to play 16 non-conference games against teams in ESPN’s 2025 Way-Too-Early Top 25.

ACC Owns Labor Day Once Again

The ACC will once again close out college football’s opening weekend by anchoring Labor Day Monday, as Belichick makes his North Carolina debut with the Tar Heels hosting TCU.
This marks the 16th consecutive Labor Day game for the ACC (excluding the 2020 COVID season), and the 19th time since the tradition began with Florida State vs. Miami in 2005.

ACC Football Fridays

ACC football is set to dominate Fridays this fall, with a league-record 12 games scheduled on Fridays in 2025, the most of any conference.
Georgia Tech’s season-opening contest at Colorado on August 29 is one of two ACC games set for the first Friday of play in the 2025 season.

ACC is the Conference of Quarterbacks

The ACC is the Conference of Quarterbacks, with the return of full-time starters Cade Klubnik at Clemson, Haynes King at Georgia Tech, Kevin Jennings at SMU, Eli Holstein at Pitt, Kyron Drones at Virginia Tech, CJ Bailey at NC State and Thomas Castellanos at Florida State.
Five ACC quarterbacks were ranked in ESPN’s Top 15 QBs in College Football in 2025 – Cade Klubnik of Clemson, Carson Beck of Miami, Haynes King of Georgia Tech, Kevin Jennings of SMU and Darian Mensah of Duke.
The ACC features four of the top 10 quarterback transfers heading into the 2025 season and has seen a strong influx of talent at the position, including notable names like Carson Beck (Miami), Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele (California), Darian Mensah (Duke), Miller Moss (Louisville), Steve Angeli and Rickie Collins (Syracuse), Dylan Lonergan (Boston College), Chandler Morris (Virginia), Gio Lopez (North Carolina), Devin Brown (California), Daniel Kaelin (Virginia), and Deshawn Purdie (Wake Forest).
Since 2018, the ACC has had at least one quarterback drafted in the first round in six different drafts — the only conference to do that.

ACC is Loaded with Preeminent Players Heading into 2025

The ACC is stacked with preeminent players again heading into the 2025 season.
Top returners include: Desmond Reid, RB (Pitt); Francis Mauigoa, OT (Miami); Isaiah Nwokobia, S (SMU); Caleb Weaver, S (Duke); Avieon Terrell, CB (Clemson); Kyle Louis, LB (Pitt); Isaac Brown, RB (Louisville); Sammy Brown, LB (Clemson); T.J. Parker, DE (Clemson); Peter Woods, DT (Clemson); Luke Petitbon, OL (Florida State); Monroe Mills, OT (Virginia); Jamal Haynes, RB (Georgia Tech); Demond Claiborne, RB (Wake Forest); Antonio Williams, WR (Clemson).
Impact transfers ranked in the Top 100 include: Duce Robinson, WR (Florida State); Will Heldt, DE (Clemson); Eric Rivers, WR (Georgia Tech); Ethan O’Connor, CB (Miami); CJ Daniels, WR (Miami); Charles Brantley, CB (Miami); Thaddeus Dixon, CB (North Carolina); Fa’alili Fa’amoe, OL (Wake Forest); Daniel King, OT (North Carolina); Khmori House, LB (North Carolina); Zechariah Poyser, S (Miami); Micah Pettus, OT (Florida State); David Blay, DL (Miami).

ACC x NFL

No conference blends college football and NFL experience quite like the ACC in 2025, with three former NFL head coaches now leading programs: Bill O’Brien (Boston College), Bill Belichick (North Carolina), and Frank Reich (Stanford) — the most of any conference.
Several ACC programs also feature General Managers with deep NFL ties, including Ron Rivera (Cal), John Garrett (Duke), Michael Lombardi (North Carolina) and Andrew Luck (Stanford), along with a growing number of former NFL stars contributing across coaching staffs and player development roles.

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ACC Announces Early-Season and Special Date Football Kickoff Times and Broadcast Schedule