ACC and ESPN Announce 2024 College Football Bowl Schedule

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference and ESPN, in conjunction with Bowl Season, have announced the ACC Bowl schedule for the upcoming 2024 season, which includes three games on ABC and nine games on ESPN.

The announcement includes dates, game times and television designations for eight of ESPN’s ACC-affiliated bowl games.

The Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl was also announced on Thursday as it will air on CBS for the 56th consecutive year.

“The ACC Bowl partners do an incredible job of providing an exceptional experience for our teams, coaches, student-athletes, alumni and fans,” said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D. “We deeply appreciate these meaningful relationships which only continue to grow. We also applaud all Bowl Season games that provide valuable experiences as part of postseason college football and in their respective communities. Special thanks to our partners at Disney/ESPN, as well as Nick Carparelli at Bowl Season for their incredible work highlighting football year after year.”

Last season, the ACC had 11 teams compete in a postseason bowl, the most among its peer conferences. The ACC’s 11 bowl-eligible teams reached a conference record in 2018.

Last year’s 11 bowl teams marked the 23rd consecutive season in which the ACC earned at least six bowl bids. Not including the pandemic-affected 2020 season, the ACC has sent at least nine teams to a bowl every year since 2016. Since 2013, the ACC ranks second among all conferences with 111 postseason appearances, counting the 11, 2023.

On May 30, the ACC and ESPN announced the start times and networks for most of the league’s football games during the first three weeks of the 2024 football season. The announcement also includes the times and networks for Thursday night matchups. and Fridays throughout the 2024 campaign. Overall, ACC teams will play 22 games on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 of the games covered by this announcement. (Release)

ACC Bowl Game Affiliations – Game Times and TV Assignments

Friday, December 20, 2024
Gasparilla Bowl (Tampa, Fla.) – 3:30 p.m. ET/ESPN

Friday, December 27, 2024
Birmingham Bowl (Birmingham, Alabama) – noon or 3:30 p.m. ET/ESPN

Saturday, December 28, 2024
Fenway Bowl (Boston, Massachusetts) – 11 a.m. ET/ESPN
Pinstripe Bowl (Bronx, New York) – Noon ET/ABC
Pop-Tarts Bowl (Orlando, Florida) – 3:30 p.m. ET/ABC
Military Bowl presented by GoBowling.com (Washington DC) – 5:45 p.m. ET/ESPN

Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl (El Paso, Texas) – 2pm ET/CBS

Thursday, January 2, 2025
Gator Bowl (Jacksonville, Fla.) – 7:30 p.m. ET/ESPN

Friday, January 3, 2025
Duke’s Mayo Bowl (Charlotte, North Carolina) – 7:30 p.m. ET/ESPN

TBD
Holiday Bowl

ACC Notes

• The ACC is the Quarterbacks Conference, with returning full-time starters Thomas Castellanos at Boston College, Cade Klubnik at Clemson, Haynes King at Georgia Tech, Preston Stone at SMU and Kyron Drones at Virginia Tech, and transfer Maalik Murphy at Duke , DJ Uiagalelei at Florida State, Tyler Shough at Louisville, Cam Ward at Miami, Grayson McCall at NC State and Kyle McCord at Syracuse, among others.

• The ACC’s non-conference schedule continues to be the most challenging in the country.

  • 27 games against Power 4 opponents, including Notre Dame, the most of any conference.

  • Nine non-conference games against teams ranked in the final 2023 Associated Press Top 25 poll, the most of any conference.

  • 10 non-conference games against teams in ESPN’s 2024 Top 25 Way-Too-Early, the most of any conference.

• In ESPN’s updated 2024 Way Too Early College Football Top 25 rankings, the ACC has five ranked teams.

• Last season, four ACC teams finished in the top 25 in the Associated Press (AP) and AFCA Coaches Polls.

  • In the AP poll, Florida State finished tied for 6th place, while Louisville ranked 19th, Clemson 20th and NC State 21st.

  • In the AFCA Coaches Poll, Florida State was ranked 6th, Louisville was 18th, and Clemson and NC State were 20th and 21st, respectively.

• Four teams were ranked in last year’s final College Football Playoff (CFP) Top 25 rankings.

  • The four ACC teams ranked second among all FBS conferences.

  • Florida State (No. 5), Louisville (No. 15), North Carolina State (No. 18) and Clemson (No. 22).

• More than two-thirds of the ACC was bowl eligible last year, as 11 of the conference’s 14 teams played in a bowl game.

• Not including the pandemic-affected 2020 season, the ACC has sent at least nine teams to a bowl every year since 2016. Since 2013, the ACC ranks second among all conferences with 111 postseason appearances.

• Six different ACC teams started the 2023 season a year ago at 4-0, which tied the SEC in 2012 for the most teams in a Power 5 conference starting 4-0 in a single season in the AP Poll Era (since 1936).

• The ACC finished with 10 teams posting a winning record, only the second time in the playoff era (11 – 2016) that the conference has achieved this feat.

• ACC teams totaled 43 wins over teams with a .500-plus record last season, the most among all FBS conferences.

• The ACC again posted a solid record in non-conference games last season, going 44-23 (.657) overall. The ACC’s 44 non-conference wins were the second-most among all FBS conferences.

• In 2023, the ACC was a combined 7-5 against the SEC, which marked the ACC’s third winning season against the SEC and its second-most wins against the SEC in the last 20 years (5-3 – 2014 ; 10-4 – 2016; 7-5 – 2023).

This story originally appeared on Clemson Wire