ACC Football Kicks Off 2025 Season as Stanford Faces Hawai’i in Primetime Opener

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – The countdown is over—the 2025 school soccer season begins on Saturday, August 23, with the Atlantic Coast Conference entrance and middle as Stanford meets Hawai’i underneath the lights at 7:30 p.m. ET in a primetime matchup from Honolulu.
 
Week 0 – ACC Football Schedule
 
Saturday, August 23 | 7:30 p.m. ET
Stanford at Hawaii
Series: Stanford leads, 4-0
Last assembly: Stanford, 37-24 (2023)
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ACC Football Notes
 
From Ireland to Hawai’i

• Last season, Florida State and Georgia Tech kicked off the 2024 school soccer season on the Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Week 0 on August 24 in Dublin, Ireland.
• This 12 months, the ACC kicks off the 2025 season with Stanford taking part in at Hawai’i in Week 0 on August 23.
• This would be the first time an ACC member (on the time of the sport) will journey to Hawai’i for a university soccer recreation since Virginia misplaced to Georgia, 37-14, within the 2000 O’ahu Bowl. (Stats Perform)

 
ACC Owns Labor Day Once Again

• The ACC is the one league to compete throughout 5 days – Thursday by Monday – throughout Week 1 of the faculty soccer season.
• Week 1 consists of seven video games towards P4 opponents and Notre Dame – no different convention has extra.
• The ACC will as soon as once more anchor Labor Day Weekend on Monday evening with North Carolina taking part in host to TCU, as Bill Belichick makes his collegiate teaching debut with the Tar Heels internet hosting TCU.
• It marks the sixteenth consecutive Labor Day recreation for the ACC (excluding the 2020 COVID season), and the nineteenth time for the reason that custom started with Florida State vs. Miami in 2005.

 
ACC Football Fridays

• ACC Football is about to dominate Fridays this fall, with a league-record 12 video games scheduled for Fridays in 2025, essentially the most of any convention.
• 12 of the ACC’s 17 soccer applications will take part in a minimum of one primetime Friday evening recreation.
• Georgia Tech’s season-opening contest at Colorado on August 29 is certainly one of two ACC video games set for the primary Friday of play within the 2025 season.

 
Strongest Non-Conference Schedule

• ACC groups are scheduled to play 26 video games towards peer Power 4 Conference opponents and Notre Dame in 2025, essentially the most of any convention by a minimum of eight video games – ACC – 26; SEC – 18; Big 12 – 14; Big Ten – 12.
• ACC groups are scheduled to play 15 non-conference video games towards opponents that had been ranked within the 2025 Preseason AP Poll, 5 greater than every other convention. Nine of these contests will come versus foes ranked within the high 10, additionally essentially the most of any convention.
• ACC groups will play 35 non-conference video games towards opponents that appeared in a bowl recreation final 12 months, together with eight towards groups that made the 12-team College Football Playoff.
• Based on workforce information from final season, the ACC is slated to play the hardest power of schedule (.591) in non-conference play this season (considers FBS opponents solely). (Stats Perform)

 
ACC is Again the Conference of Quarterbacks

• The ACC is the Conference of Quarterbacks, with the return of full-time starters Cade Klubnik at Clemson, Haynes King at Georgia Tech, Kevin Jennings at SMU, Eli Holstein at Pitt, Kyron Drones at Virginia Tech, CJ Bailey at NC State and Tommy Castellanos at Florida State.
• Five ACC quarterbacks had been ranked in ESPN’s Top 15 QBs in College Football in 2025 – Cade Klubnik of Clemson, Carson Beck of Miami, Haynes King of Georgia Tech, Kevin Jennings of SMU and Darian Mensah of Duke.
• The ACC options 9 of the highest 30 quarterback transfers heading into the 2025 season and has seen a robust inflow of expertise on the place, together with notable names like Carson Beck (Miami), Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele (California), Darian Mensah (Duke), Miller Moss (Louisville), Steve Angeli and Rickie Collins (Syracuse), Dylan Lonergan (Boston College), Chandler Morris (Virginia), Gio Lopez (North Carolina), Devin Brown (California), Daniel Kaelin (Virginia), and Deshawn Purdie (Wake Forest).
• Since 2018, the ACC is the one convention to have had a minimum of one QB drafted within the first spherical in six completely different drafts.

 
ACC is Loaded with Preeminent Players

• The ACC is stacked with preeminent gamers once more heading into the 2025 season.

  • Five ACC gamers are ranked on ESPN’s listing of 25 non-QB playmakers to observe.
  • ACC has 10 of the highest 50 greatest gamers in school soccer (PFF College 50).
  • ACC has 1 of the three high returning gamers throughout six completely different positions (Pro Football Focus).
  • ACC has 3 of the highest 10 groups within the 247Sports 2025 Transfer Football Team Rankings.
  • ACC has 22 of the highest 100 transfers within the 247Sports 2025 College Football Transfer Portal Top Prospects.

 
ACC x NFL

• No convention blends school soccer and NFL expertise fairly just like the ACC in 2025, with three former NFL head coaches now main applications: Bill O’Brien (Boston College), Bill Belichick (North Carolina), and Frank Reich (Stanford), essentially the most of any convention.
• Belichick (six Super Bowl wins) and Reich (one) are the one two school soccer head coaches who’ve additionally received a Super Bowl as both head coach or coordinator within the NFL.
• Several ACC applications additionally characteristic General Managers with deep NFL ties, together with Ron Rivera (Cal), John Garrett (Duke), Michael Lombardi (North Carolina) and Andrew Luck (Stanford), together with a rising variety of former NFL stars contributing throughout teaching staffs and participant improvement roles.

 
2025 ACC Football Championship Game in Primetime Once Again

• The 2025 ACC Football Championship Game will kick off at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday, December 6, at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, on ABC. The league’s soccer championship recreation will showcase the highest two groups based mostly on regular-season convention successful proportion.
• The 8 p.m. ET kickoff marks the sixteenth time within the final 17 years that the sport might be held in primetime. Since its inception in 2005, a complete of 14 completely different groups have competed within the championship recreation.
• Bank of America Stadium, residence of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers, has hosted 14 of the final 15 ACC Football Championship Games. The ACC, Carolina Panthers, and the Charlotte Sports Foundation have an settlement to maintain the championship recreation in Charlotte by the 2030 season.
• The winner of the convention championship recreation has superior to the National Championship Game or competed within the College Football Playoff in 9 of the final 12 seasons, together with each of the 2 taking part groups final 12 months, with the ACC being certainly one of solely three multi-bid leagues.