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ACC 2017 Schedules.

The ACC announced the release for their 2017 schedules. The ACC also released some very interesting notes touting the strength of this years schedule.

With Clemson and Florida State winning two of the last four national championships, ACC programs will face teams in 2017 that have won 10 of the last 11 national titles.

ACC teams will play more games (22) against Power Five nonconference teams than any of its peer conferences. The ACC will also have a higher percentage (.393) of its nonconference games against Power Five opponents than any other league.

ACC teams will play more games against nonconference teams (7) that were ranked in last year’s final Associated Press Top 25 than any other Power Five conference. The ACC also has the second-highest percentage of games against teams ranked in the final AP poll of any of its peers.

Including the 11 ACC teams that went to bowl games, no ACC team will face fewer than seven opponents that went to bowls in 2016, while eight teams will face eight or more opponents that played in the postseason with Syracuse (11), Duke (10), Clemson (9), Georgia Tech (9), NC State (9) and Virginia (9) leading the way. ACC teams will play 26 games against nonconference opponents that went to bowl games in 2016, the second-highest total among Power Five conferences.

ACC teams will play seven nonconference games against teams in ESPN’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2017, which ties for the most among Power Five conferences.

ACC teams’ FBS nonconference opponents had the second-highest winning percentage (.526) in 2016 of any of the Power Five conferences.

BOSTON COLLEGE			CLEMSON			DUKE			FLORIDA STATE
9/1	at	Northern Illinois (Fri)	9/2		Kent St	9/2		NC Central	9/2		Alabama
9/9		Wake Forest	9/9		Auburn	9/9		Northwestern	9/9		ULM
9/16		Notre Dame	9/16	at	Louisville	9/16		Baylor	9/16		Miami Fl
9/23	at	Clemson	9/23		Boston College	9/23	at	North Carolina	9/23		NC State
9/30		Central Michigan	9/30	at	Virginia Tech	9/29		Miami Fl (Fri)	9/30	at	Wake Forest
10/7		Virginia Tech	10/7		Wake Forest	10/7	at	Virginia	10/7		Open
10/14	at	Louisville	10/13	at	Syracuse (Fri)	10/14		Florida St	10/14	at	Duke
10/21	at	Virginia	10/21		Open	10/21		Pittsburgh	10/21		Louisville
10/27		Florida St (Fri)	10/28		Georgia Tech	10/28	at	Virginia Tech	10/27	at	Boston College (Fri)
11/4		Open	11/4	at	NC State	11/4		Open	11/4		Syracuse
11/11		NC State	11/11		Florida St	11/11	at	Army	11/11	at	Clemson
11/18	at	Connectivut	11/18		Citadel	11/18		Georgia Tech	11/18		Delaware St
11/25	at	Syracuse	11/25	at	South Carolina	11/25	at	Wake Forest	11/25	at	Florida
12/2			12/2			12/2			12/2


GEORGIA TECH			LOUISVILLE			MIAMI FL			NC STATE
9/4		Tennessee (Mon)	9/2		Purdue	9/2		Bethune-Cookman	9/2		South Carolina
9/9		Jacksonville St	9/9	at	North Carolina	9/9	at	Arkansas St	9/9		Marshall
9/16	at	UCF	9/16		Clemson	9/16	at	Florida St	9/16		Furman
9/23		Pittsburgh	9/23		Kent St	9/23		Toledo	9/23	at	Florida St
9/30		North Carolina	9/30		Murray St	9/29	at	Duke (Fri)	9/30		Syracuse
10/7		Open	10/5	at	NC State (Thur)	10/7		Open	10/5		Louisville (Thur)
10/12	at	Miami Fl (Thur)	10/14		Boston College	10/12		Georgia Tech (Thur)	10/14	at	Pittsburgh
10/21		Wake Forest	10/21	at	Florida St	10/21		Syracuse	10/21		Open
10/28	at	Clemson	10/28	at	Wake Forest	10/28	at	North Carolina	10/28	at	Notre Dame
11/4	at	Virginia	11/4		Open	11/4		Virginia Tech	11/4		Clemson
11/11		Virginia Tech	11/11		Virginia	11/11		Notre Dame	11/11	at	Boston College
11/18	at	Duke	11/18		Syracuse	11/18		Virginia	11/18	at	Wake Forest
11/25		Georgia	11/25	at	Kentucky	11/24	at	Pittsburgh (Fri)	11/25		North Carolina
12/2			12/2			12/2			12/2


NORTH CAROLINA			PITTSBURGH			SYRACUSE			VIRGINIA
9/2		California	9/2		Youngstown St	9/2		Central Conn St	9/2		William & Mary
9/9		Louisville	9/9	at	Penn St	9/9		Middle Tennessee	9/9		Indiana
9/16	at	Old Dominion	9/16		Oklahoma St	9/16		Central Michigan	9/16		Connecticut
9/23		Duke	9/23	at	Georgia Tech	9/23	at	LSU	9/23	at	Boise St
9/30	at	Georgia Tech	9/30		Rice	9/30	at	NC State	9/30		Open
10/7		Notre Dame	10/7	at	Syracuse	10/7		Pittsburgh	10/7		Duke
10/14	at	Virginia	10/14		NC State	10/13		Clemson (Fri)	10/14	at	North Carolina
10/21		Virginia Tech	10/21	at	Duke	10/21	at	Miami Fl	10/21		Boston College
10/28		Miami Fl	10/28		Virginia	10/28		Open	10/28	at	Pittsburgh
11/4		Open	11/4		Open	11/4	at	Florida St	11/4		Georgia Tech
11/9	at	Pittsburgh (Thur)	11/9		N Carolina (Thur)	11/11		Wake Forest	11/11	at	Louisville
11/18		Western Carolina	11/18	at	Virginia Tech	11/18	at	Louisville	11/18	at	Miami Fl
11/25	at	NC State	11/24		Miami Fl (Fri)	11/25		Boston College	11/24		Virginia Tech (Fri)
12/2			12/2			12/2			12/2


VIRGINIA TECH			WAKE FOREST
9/2		West Virginia	8/31		Presbyterian (Thur)
9/9		Delaware	9/9	at	Boston College
9/16	at	East Carolina	9/16		Utah St
9/23		Old Dominion	9/23	at	Appalachian St
9/30		Clemson	9/30		Florida St
10/7	at	Boston College	10/7	at	Clemson
10/14		Open	10/14		Open
10/21		North Carolina	10/21	at	Georgia Tech
10/28		Duke	10/28		Louisville
11/4	at	Miami Fl	11/4	at	Notre Dame
11/11	at	Georgia Tech	11/11		Syracuse
11/18		Pittsburgh	11/18		NC State
11/24	at	Virginia (Fri)	11/25		Duke
12/2			12/2