New ACC Schedule Format Reveal

[AUFC]

I'll take whatever opponents get us to Charlotte and that 12 team national championship playoff over facing off against a bunch of 5* blue chips every year. 2025 should be playoff or bust with Haynes King in his senior season.

 

[forensicbuzz]

In 2024 GT has:

Home: Duke, Miami, NCST, FSU (in Ireland), Ga State, VMI, ND (MB)
Away: Louisville, UNC, Syracuse, VT, uga

Added to it for you. My adds in bold.

 

[Wrecked]

Plus ND. And FSU is considered a "home" game even though it is in Ireland.

Kinda hard to draw sidewalk fans to the BDS experience when your two best "home" games aren't even at home.

 

[colton]

What the hell? Every other school in the conference (save Louisville) has protected matchups except for us. Former BE schools all play each other, Tobacco Rd all play each other, West Coast all play each other, FSU plays UM and clemson, leaving GT with nothing.

 

[Techster]

Duke and Syracuse show up on our schedule 4 out of the next 5 years.

First trip out West is in 2026...the same year the World Cup is in the US.

BTW, for those that wanted to stay in the ACC (instead of B1G) for rivalry reasons, just goes to show you that $$$$ trumps conference rivalries.

 

[bensaysitathome]

Added to it for you. My adds in bold.

I don't know why I'm surprised any more, since it's an every year occurrence. But man that's a tough schedule.

 

[RonJohn]

Added to it for you. My adds in bold.

I was only listing the ACC schedule. Not sure how I put in SMU instead of NCST. I was using the logo schedule on theacc.com, so maybe I saw the SMU logo on Louisville underneath GT.

 

[Techster]

What the hell? Every other school in the conference (save Louisville) has protected matchups except for us. Former BE schools all play each other, Tobacco Rd all play each other, West Coast all play each other, FSU plays UM and clemson, leaving GT with nothing.

It's because we're going to the B1G

 

[forensicbuzz]

What the hell? Every other school in the conference (save Louisville) has protected matchups except for us. Former BE schools all play each other, Tobacco Rd all play each other, West Coast all play each other, FSU plays UM and clemson, leaving GT with nothing.

I'd rather not have a protected matchup. We've been paired with Clemson through all their power years and suffered for it. I'd rather it be arbitrary.

 

[GTJeff1975]

I’m excited to get to play Cal and Stanford! Don’t get me wrong I love our southern rivals but it’s going to be nice to add some west coast teams on a regular basis!

 

[Wrecked]

I’m excited to get to play Cal and Stanford! Don’t get me wrong I love our southern rivals but it’s going to be nice to add some west coast teams on a regular basis!

Other than UGA, who are our southern rivals? Rivals are a team you play every year IMO.

 

[whiskeyClear]

Kinda sad about losing the Clemson yearly game. Though, it definitely makes it easier imagining leaving a conference when we zero yearly conference matchups.

Sad I'll have to wait until 2028 to see Cal play GT in Berkeley too

 

[colton]

I’m excited to get to play Cal and Stanford! Don’t get me wrong I love our southern rivals but it’s going to be nice to add some west coast teams on a regular basis!

Hope you have a lot of patience! We don't play a game with any of the newcomers until 2026.

 

[Mattmc10]

Other than UGA, who are our southern rivals? Rivals are a team you play every year IMO.

Clemson and Duke. Clemson has owned for for past 5 years, somehow people think this will last forever. This schedule is stupid. We should play Clemson every year. They are 2 hours away.

 

[FredJacket]

What the hell? Every other school in the conference (save Louisville) has protected matchups except for us. Former BE schools all play each other, Tobacco Rd all play each other, West Coast all play each other, FSU plays UM and clemson, leaving GT with nothing.

What is the "benefit" of having a protected matchup? This forum has complained non-stop about how we're screwed getting Clemson every year. Now ... that's no longer the case.

The deal is... the ACC views Ga Tech as such a great draw, they need us distributed to the max across the conference over time (tic).

Seriously... I see nothing wrong from a win/loss perspective with no permanent matchup. We play 8 ACC teams every year just like everyone else. We need to just beat those teams.

 

[colton]

Kinda sad about losing the Clemson yearly game. Though, it definitely makes it easier imagining leaving a conference when we zero yearly conference matchups.

Sad I'll have to wait until 2028 to see Cal play GT in Berkeley too

I was never in favor of conference realignment, but I can agree with you here. Going (back) to the SEC would restore our REALLY old rivalries, protect our biggest one, and secure us financially for... ever, probably.

 

[Golden Tornadoes]

Does anyone think UNC will ask the ACC to take us off their schedule every year.

They must have asked and received because we play them next year and in 2027 and that’s it until after 2030. As many others have already said and predicted, we got shafted like usual.

 

[colton]

What is the "benefit" of having a protected matchup? This forum has complained non-stop about how we're screwed getting Clemson every year. Now ... that's no longer the case.

The deal is... the ACC views Ga Tech as such a great draw, they need us distributed to the max across the conference over time (tic).

Seriously... I see nothing wrong from a win/loss perspective with no permanent matchup. We play 8 ACC teams every year just like everyone else. We need to just beat those teams.

It's the principle. The ACC is saying that Georgia Tech is not important enough of a program to keep their biggest conference rival. This year especially, Clemson is trending down, while we're trending up. It's the same with Georgia, we play them every year because we have to, and even though we don't win all the time, you can't just take away that game.

 

[Techster]

The deal is... the ACC views Ga Tech as such a great draw, they need us distributed to the max across the conference over time (tic).

Honestly, that may not be far from the truth. Georgia/Atlanta is talent rich. I'm sure a bunch of schools requested to play GT in Atlanta due to our proximity in talent, and ease of travel to Atlanta.

 

[SOWEGA Jacket]

I freaking love this. It takes winning to build a program and losing Clemson and gaining the leftovers will get us back to 7-9 wins much quicker. JBatt gets a 10 out of 10 for realizing nobody cares about a tough team who is 6-6 or 5-7. Winning will bring better bowl games and more fans into the stadium which will lead to better recruiting classes. How many years did we go into ACC play at a 1 game deficit to the Hokies because we had Clemson as our yearly crossover. We would have won several more Coastals if they had Clemson and we had Wake. This is fantastic for GT football.