Duke, North Carolina and NC State football received some clarity Monday with the ACC announcing its future schedule model for the next seven years.

Cal, SMU and Stanford will be joining the ACC in 2024, so the league released its schedules for 2024-30.

The new schedule, which features 17 schools, will continue without divisions and annual conference matchups will go from 56 to 68. The top two teams in the standings will compete for the ACC Championship on the first Saturday in December at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte.

“We are extremely excited to welcome Cal, SMU and Stanford to the ACC and look forward to having them compete beginning in the fall of 2024,” ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips said in a league-issued statement.

“Throughout the entire scheduling model process, the membership was incredibly thoughtful and purposeful in building a creative, flexible and aggressive conference scheduling model while keeping the student-athlete experience at the forefront. The excitement and anticipation for our teams, alumni and fans will undoubtedly build as we look ahead to the future of this incredible conference.”

The approved format will continue to have each member institution play eight conference games per season, with all 17 teams playing each other at least twice over the next seven seasons – once at home and once on the road. The current 14 conference teams will play a total of three times each in California over the seven years and none will travel west to California in back-to-back seasons.

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The new scheduling model protects 16 annual matchups. Of the 16 matchups, 11 are retained from the current 3-5-5 schedule model, two are restored rivalries from the divisional format in Miami-Virginia Tech and NC State-Wake Forest and the three new schools fill the remaining three.

The annual protected matchups are: Boston College-Syracuse, Boston College-Pitt, Syracuse-Pitt, UNC-Virginia, UNC-Duke, UNC-NC State, NC State-Wake Forest, NC State-Duke, Duke-Wake Forest, Virginia Tech-Virginia, Florida State-Clemson, Miami-Florida State, Miami-Virginia Tech, Stanford-Cal, Stanford-SMU, and Cal-SMU.

Here's a look at the complete conference schedules for Duke, North Carolina and NC State from 2024-30.

Duke football schedule

• 2024: Florida State, UNC, SMU, Virginia Tech (Home). Georgia Tech, Miami, NC State, Wake Forest (Away).

• 2025: Georgia Tech, NC State, Virginia, Wake Forest (Home). Cal, Clemson, UNC, Syracuse (Away).

• 2026: Boston College, Clemson, UNC, Stanford (Home). Georgia Tech, NC State, Virginia, Wake Forest (Away).

• 2027: Louisville, Miami, NC State, Wake Forest (Home). Florida State, UNC, Pitt, Stanford (Away).

• 2028: Georgia Tech, UNC, Syracuse, Virginia (Home). Boston College, Miami, NC State, Wake Forest (Away).

• 2029: NC State, Pitt, Stanford, Wake Forest (Home). Cal, Louisville, UNC, Virginia Tech (Away).

• 2030: Cal, Florida State, Louisville, UNC (Home). Clemson, NC State, SMU, Wake Forest (Away).

UNC football schedule

• 2024: Georgia Tech, NC State, Pitt, Wake Forest (Home). Boston College, Duke, Florida State, Virginia (Away).

• 2025: Clemson, Duke, Stanford, Virginia (Home). Cal, NC State, Syracuse, Wake Forest (Away).

• 2026: Louisville, Miami, NC State, Syracuse (Home). Clemson, Duke, Pitt, Virginia (Away).

• 2027: Duke, Florida State, Virginia, Virginia Tech (Home). Georgia Tech, NC State, Stanford, Wake Forest (Away).

• 2028: Boston College, NC State, Stanford, Wake Forest (Home). Duke, Florida State, SMU, Virginia (Away)

• 2029: Cal, Clemson, Duke, Virginia (Home). Louisville, Miami, NC State, Virginia Tech (Away).

• 2030: Miami, NC State, SMU, Virginia Tech (Home). Cal, Clemson, Duke, Virginia (Away).

NC State football schedule

• 2024: Duke, Stanford, Syracuse, Wake Forest (Home). Cal, Clemson, Georgia Tech, UNC (Away).

• 2025: Florida State, Georgia Tech, UNC, Virginia Tech (Home). Duke, Miami, Pitt, Wake Forest (Away).

• 2026: Cal, Duke, Louisville, Wake Forest (Home). Florida State, Louisville, Stanford, Virginia Tech (Away).

• 2027: Clemson, Miami, UNC, Pitt (Home). Duke, Syracuse, Virginia, Wake Forest (Away).

• 2028: Boston College, Duke, SMU, Wake Forest (Home). Cal, Clemson, Louisville, UNC (Away).

• 2029: Miami, UNC, Pitt, Virginia (Home). Duke, Florida State, SMU, Wake Forest (Away).

• 2030: Duke, Louisville, Stanford, Wake Forest (Home). Boston College, UNC, Pitt, Virginia Tech (Away)

Staff writer Rodd Baxley can be reached at rbaxley@fayobserver.com or @RoddBaxley on X/Twitter.

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