CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) - Week two of the 2026 Atlantic Coast Conference volleyball season will begin on Friday, August 28, as all 18 league teams compete across three days.
No. 4 Pitt will host the Opening Spike Classic this Friday and Sunday, August 30, welcoming No. 5 Stanford, No. 6 Wisconsin and No. 15 Kansas to the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Panthers will take on Kansas at 6:30 p.m. ET on Friday and Wisconsin at noon ET on Sunday. The Cardinal will face off against the Badgers at 9 p.m. ET on Friday and the Jayhawks on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ET.
The ACC went 4-1 in the 2026 AVCA First Serve, highlighted by three wins over AVCA top 10 teams. Pitt went 2-0 against No. 3 Kentucky and Xavier, SMU went 1-0 against No. 8 Texas A&M, and Louisville went 1-1, also taking down the reigning national champion Aggies.
In the AVCA/Taraflex Preseason Poll, Pitt led the ACC in the No. 4 spot with Stanford (No. 5), Louisville (No. 7), SMU (No. 11) and North Carolina (No. 19) filling out the rest of the top 25. This year marks the first season since 2017 that the Tar Heels were ranked in the preseason poll.
Weekly Schedule (All Times Eastern)
Friday, August 28
Kent State at Virginia Tech | 10:30 a.m. | ACCNX
Florida State vs. BYU | 2 p.m. (Fort Myers, Fla.)
Georgia Tech vs. Northern Iowa | 5 p.m. | ESPN+ (Ames, Iowa)
NC State vs. Stony Brook | 4 p.m. | ESPN+ (Orlando, Fla.)
Miami at Michigan State | 6 p.m. | BTN+
Charleston Southern at Clemson | 6 p.m. | ACCNX
Duke at Coastal Carolina | 6 p.m. | ESPN+
William & Mary at Virginia Tech | 6:30 p.m. | ACCNX
Ball State at Notre Dame | 6:30 p.m. | ACCNX
#15 Kansas at #4 Pitt | 6:30 p.m. | ESPN2
Wake Forest at LSU | 7 p.m. | SECN+
#16 Indiana at #7 Louisville | 7 p.m. | ACCNX
Air Force at Boston College | 7 p.m. | ACCNX
#6 Wisconsin vs. #5 Stanford | 9 p.m. | ESPN2 (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Pacific at California | 10 p.m. | ACCNX
Saturday, August 29
NC State vs. Robert Morris | Noon | ESPN+ (Orlando, Fla.)
Florida State vs. VCU | 1 p.m. (Fort Myers, Fla.)
Miami at Michigan | 2 p.m. | BTN
Wake Forest vs. Houston | 2 p.m. (Baton Rouge, La.)
#19 North Carolina at Davidson | 2 p.m. | ESPN+
Coppin State at Virginia Tech | 3 p.m. | ACCNX
Duke vs. Queens | 3 p.m. (Conway, S.C.)
Syracuse vs. Cincinnati | 4 p.m. | BTN+ (Urbana-Champaign, Ill.)
Georgia Tech at Iowa State | 5 p.m. | ESPN+
Butler at Clemson | 5 p.m. | ACCNX
#11 SMU at Colorado State | 7 p.m. | YouTube
UC San Diego at California | 10 p.m. | ACCNX
Sunday, August 30
#6 Wisconsin at #4 Pitt | Noon | ESPN
Georgia Tech vs. Loyola Chicago | 12:30 p.m. | ESPN+
Xavier at Notre Dame | 1 p.m. | ACCNX
Quinnipiac at Boston College | 1 p.m. | ACCNX
Florida State at FGCU | 1 p.m. | ESPN+
Syracuse at Illinois | 1 p.m. | BTN+
NC State at UCF | 2 p.m. | ESPN+
#15 Kansas vs. #5 Stanford | 2:30 p.m. | ESPN (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
#11 SMU vs. UC Davis | 3 p.m. (Fort Collins, Colo.)
Western Carolina at Clemson | 4 p.m. | ACCNX
American at Virginia | 4 p.m. | ACCNX
UNCW at #19 North Carolina | 4 p.m. | ACCNX
California at Saint Mary’s | 5 p.m. | ESPN+
Noting ACC Volleyball
- Pitt’s Babcock was named the AVCA Division I National Player of the Week on August 26.
- Pitt led the ACC in the No. 4 spot in the AVCA/Taraflex Preseason Poll and was followed by Stanford (No. 5), Louisville (No. 7), SMU (No. 11) and North Carolina (No. 19) filling out the rest of the top 25. This year marks the first season since 2017 that the Tar Heels were ranked in the preseason poll.
- Stanford was voted the preseason favorite to win the 2026 ACC Volleyball Championship for the first time since joining the league by the league’s volleyball head coaches.
- Eight ACC standouts were named to the AVCA Division I Player of the Year Watch List. The list included Louisville’s Nayelis Cabello and Chloe Chicoine, Pitt’s Olivia Babcock and Izzy Starck, SMU’s Favor Anyanwu and Suli Davis, and Stanford’s Lizzy Andrew and Logan Parks.
- Duke’s Ahen Kim and Florida State’s Lindsay Allman are both entering their first seasons as head coaches of their respective programs.
- Listen to the SiriusXM 2026 ACC Volleyball Preview Show here: https://sxm.app.link/ACCVolleyball2026.