With the New Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Football model coming after the additions of SMU, Cal, & Stanford, the conference is doing away with their 3-5-5 model that was supposed to stand for four seasons, from 2023 through 2026.
That prior model had each of the 14 schools facing three permanent rivals each season, but that has changed with the ACC expanding to 17.
It also guaranteed that each school, outside of their three permanent rivals, would face half of the other ACC schools in 2023 (5) and the other half in 2024 (5), then the schools in 2023 again in 2025 alternating home for away and vice versa from wherever the 2023 games were played, and doing the same with the other five schools they faced in 2024, playing them again in 2026. For example, if Syracuse played Virginia on the road in 2023 and Virginia Tech at home in 2024, then Syracuse would have Virginia at home in 2025 and Virginia Tech on the road in 2026.
The new ACC Football model is disproportionate from school to school, with schools ranging from no permanent rival to one to two or even three over the next seven years.
Here are the permanent rivals (who they will face seven times in seven years) for each team, beginning in 2024 and extending through the 2030 season:
BC - Pitt & Syracuse
Cal - SMU & Stanford
Clemson - FSU
Duke - UNC, NCState, & Wake Forest
FSU - Clemson & Miami
GT - None
Louisville - None
Miami - FSU & VT
UNC - Duke, NCState, & Virginia
NCState - Duke, UNC, & Wake Forest
PItt - BC & Syracuse
SMU - Cal & Stanford
Stanford - Cal & SMU
Syracuse - BC & Pitt
Virginia - UNC & VT
VT - Miami & Virginia
Wake Forest - Duke & NCState
You can also see in the image above how many times each school will face every other school in this new 17-team ACC, over the next seven seasons.