ACC reveals 2026 regular season games flexed to Friday night

The ACC formally announced its Friday night slate of games for the upcoming 2026 college football season in a press release on Friday. This year’s slate includes 15 games — an increase of three from 2025 — and features several marquee conference and non-conference matchups throughout the season.

The ACC begins its Friday game series with the already-announced Week 1 conference showdown between Miami, last season’s national runner-up, and Stanford at 9 p.m. ET, Sept. 4 on ESPN. That leads to four Friday night games in Week 2, with Boston College, Louisville, NC State, and Virginia each hosting non-conference competition under the lights.

The ACC’s Friday night schedule will also include multiple conference games in Week 8, with Duke at Virginia and NC State at Stanford. The only week the ACC won’t have a Friday night game is Week 7, with at least one conference or non-conference game on the other 12 weeks of the regular season.

Fourteen of the ACC’s 17 teams will have games on Friday night this upcoming season, with only Georgia Tech, North Carolina, and Syracuse without a Friday game during the 2026 season. Meanwhile, several ACC teams will have multiple Friday night games this season, including three for Florida State and two apiece for Clemson, Duke, Louisville, Miami, NC State, Pitt, Stanford, Virginia, and Virginia Tech.

The Seminoles’ third Friday night game of the 2026 season will be its annual Week 13 rivalry matchup versus Florida, which will kick off at 3:30 p.m. ET, Nov. 27, on ABC.

The ACC also announced the Virginia Tech at Miami game originally scheduled for Friday, Nov. 20, has been moved to Saturday, Nov. 21. Additional game times and television designations will be released May 27.

2026 ACC Friday college football schedule:

Week 1 – September 4: Miami at Stanford | 9 p.m. ET | ESPN
Week 2 – September 11: Rutgers at Boston College | TBA
Week 2 – September 11: Villanova at Louisville | TBA
Week 2 – September 11: Richmond at NC State | TBA
Week 2 – September 11: Norfolk State at Virginia | TBA
Week 3 – September 18: Miami at Wake Forest | TBA
Week 4 – September 25: Clemson at California | TBA
Week 5 – October 2: Pitt at Virginia Tech | TBA
Week 6 – October 9: Florida State at Louisville | TBA
Week 8 – October 23: Duke at Virginia | TBA
Week 8 – October 23: NC State at Stanford | TBA
Week 10 – November 6: Virginia Tech at SMU | TBA
Week 11 – November 13: Florida State at Pitt | TBA
Week 12 – November 20: Clemson at Duke | TBA
Week 13 – November 27: Florida at Florida State | 3:30 p.m. ET | ABC