Maryland – Miami open ACC on ESPN in Primetime Sptember 5th

Labor Day Monday Night (Sept. 5, 8 pm) this year features Miami travelling to Maryland in an early test for the league’s two new head coaches in Miami’s Al Golden, formerly of Temple, and Maryland’s Randy Edsall, formerly of Big East co-champion Connecticut. Also Maryland will face Notre Dame in a primetime game November 12th airing on NBC from Fed Ex Field.

The ACC will be featured on ESPN as well as  having two syndicated packages produced by the ACC Network this fall. As in the past, the ACC Network will produce a game of the week which will actually expand to the opening week of the season, debuting with Appalachian State at Virginia Tech on Sept. 3.

 

New to this year will be the addition of a second ACC Network production which will air on the Regional Sports Networks throughout the ACC footprint. This package will debut with James Madison at North Carolina on Sept. 3 and features a doubleheader on Sept. 17 beginning with Kansas at Georgia Tech (12:30 pm), and concluding with Arkansas State at Virginia Tech (4 pm).

 

ACC network syndicated games will have a new, later kickoff time of 12:30 p.m.; while the Regional Sports Network package will be no earlier than 12:30 p.m., with several games slated for 3:30 p.m. or later.

 

Of the national exposures, ABC has already committed to three, two of them on Sept. 17 with defending National Champion Auburn travelling to Clemson (Noon) and either Oklahoma visiting Florida State or Ohio State at Miami (either ABC or ESPN to be determined on September 6), as well as the previously-announced Thanksgiving Friday afternoon game on Nov. 25 with Boston College at Miami (3:30 pm).

The schedule features a minimum of 16 televised games in the first three weeks of the season, and that total will rise as several of the league’s away non-conference games are likely to be televised.

No fewer than eight ESPN exposures are listed, beginning with the ACC’s annual appearance on the network’sTwo weeks later, ESPN will either nationally televise the Hurricanes’ home game with Ohio State or the Seminoles home game against Oklahoma (Sept. 17).

ESPN will air five Thursday night games during the season featuring ACC teams, all with 8 pm kickoffs, beginning with NC State at Cincinnati (Sept. 22) and including Virginia at Miami (Oct.; 22), Florida State at Boston College (Nov. 3), Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech (Nov. 10) and North Carolina at Virginia Tech (Nov. 17).

Additionally, ESPNU, which is available in 73 million homes nationwide, will televise four ACC games in the first three weeks of the season, including Northwestern at Boston College (Sept. 3, Noon); Louisiana Monroe at Florida State (Sept. 3, 3:30 pm); Stanford at Duke (Sept. 10, 3:30 pm); and Virginia at North Carolina (Sept. 17, 3:30 pm).

Finally, nine ACC games will be video streamed over ESPN’s web-streaming platform of ESPN3.com which is now available in 70 million homes, making telecasts of all of the Conference’s home games in the first three weeks of the season available to a national audience.

 

Date Game Network Gametime
Sept. 1 Western Carolina at Georgia Tech ESPN3.com 7:30 pm
Sept. 3 Northwestern at Boston College ESPNU Noon
Sept. 3 Appalachian State at Virginia Tech ACC Network 12:30 pm
Sept. 3 Troy at Clemson ESPN3.com 3:30 pm
Sept. 3 Louisiana Monroe at Florida State ESPNU 3:30 pm
Sept. 3 James Madison at North Carolina RSN 3:30 pm
Sept. 3 Liberty at NC State ESPN3.com 6 pm
Sept. 3 William & Mary at Virginia ESPN3.com 6 pm
Sept. 3 Richmond at Duke ESPN3.com 7 pm
Sept. 3 Wake Forest at Syracuse TBA TBA
Sept. 5 Miami at Maryland ESPN 8 pm
Sept. 10 Rutgers at North Carolina ACC Network 12:30 pm
Sept. 10 NC State at Wake Forest RSN 3:30 pm
Sept. 10 Stanford at Duke ESPNU 3:30 pm
Sept. 10 Wofford at Clemson ESPN3.com 3:30 pm
Sept. 10 Charleston Southern at Florida State ESPN3.com 6 pm
Sept. 10 Georgia Tech at Middle Tennessee TBA TBA
Sept. 10 Boston College at UCF TBA TBA
Sept. 10 Virginia at Indiana TBA TBA
Sept. 10 Virginia Tech at East Carolina TBA TBA
Sept. 17 Auburn at Clemson ABC (National) Noon
Sept. 17 West Virginia at Maryland ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNU Noon
Sept. 17 Duke at Boston College ACC Network 12:30 pm
Sept. 17 Kansas at Georgia Tech RSN 12:30 pm
Sept. 17 Arkansas State at Virginia Tech RSN 4 pm
Sept. 17 Virginia at North Carolina ESPNU 3:30 pm
Sept. 17 South Alabama at NC State ESPN3.com 6 pm
Sept. 17 Gardner-Webb at Wake Forest ESPN3.com 6:30 pm
Sept. 17 Ohio State at Miami ESPN or ABC (National) 7:30/8 pm
Sept. 17 Oklahoma at Florida State ESPN or ABC (National) 7:30/8 pm
Sept. 22 NC State at Cincinnati ESPN 8 pm
Oct. 27 Virginia at Miami ESPN 8 pm
Nov. 3 Florida State at Boston College ESPN 8 pm
Nov. 10 Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech ESPN 8 pm
Nov. 12 Maryland vs. Notre Dame (Landover, Md.) NBC 7:30 pm
Nov. 17 North Carolina at Virginia Tech ESPN 8 pm
Nov. 19 Boston College at Notre Dame NBC 4 pm
Nov. 25. Boston College at Miami ABC (National) 3:30 pm
Dec. 3 Dr Pepper ACC Football Championship Game ESPN 8 pm

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