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    2024 ACC College Football Strength of Schedule Rankings

    By College Football News,

    7 hours ago

    The ACC still has all of its teams from 2023, and it picked up SMU, Stanford, and Cal - it's not like loading up with Oregon, Washington, USC, and UCLA.

    Who has to play the former Pac-12 teams in ACC play, and who has to go on the road to do it? Who misses Florida State and Clemson? Who get the likely weaker teams?

    How hard is everyone's schedule? Here's how we do the college football Strength of Schedule Rankings.

    Where is each team ranked in our 2024 CFN 1 to 134 Rankings? That's the number.

    So if Louisville is 24th, a team gets 24 points for a home game against the Cardinals, and 12 - cut the score in half; obviously it's harder to play away from home - for road games

    The lower the overall score, the tougher the schedule. Based on the same formula, we rank each team's games from toughest to easiest.

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    2024 ACC Strength of Schedule Rankings

    Predictions For Every Game
    AAC | ACC | Big Ten | Big 12 | CUSA
    IND | MAC | MWest | SEC | Sun Belt
    CFN 2024 Preseason Rankings
    Preview 2024: All 134 Team Previews
    CFN Strength of Schedule Rankings 1 to 134

    Again, the lower the score, the tougher the schedule and ranking. 1 is the team with the hardest schedule, 17 has the easiest slate.

    1 Georgia Tech

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 432.5
    2024 Georgia Tech Preview

    1 at Georgia, Nov 30
    2 vs Florida State (in Dublin), Aug 24
    3 Notre Dame, Oct 19
    4 at Louisville, Sept 21
    5 Miami, Nov 9
    6 at Virginia Tech, Oct 26
    7 at North Carolina, Oct 12
    8 NC State, Nov 21
    9 at Syracuse, Sept 7
    10 Duke, Oct 5
    11 Georgia State, Aug 31
    12 VMI, Sept 14

    2 Florida State

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 457.5
    2024 Florida State Preview

    1 at Notre Dame, Nov 9
    2 at Miami, Oct 26
    3 Clemson, Oct 5
    4 at SMU, Sept 28
    5 Florida, Nov 30
    6 at Duke, Oct 18
    7 North Carolina, Nov 2
    8 vs Georgia Tech (in Dublin), Aug 24
    9 Cal, Sept 21
    10 Memphis, Sept 14
    11 Boston College, Sept 2
    12 Charleston Southern, Nov 23

    3 Stanford

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 458.5
    2024 Stanford Preview

    1 at Notre Dame, Oct 12
    2 at Clemson, Sept 28
    3 at NC State, Nov 2
    4 at Cal, Nov 23
    5 Louisville, Nov 16
    6 at Syracuse, Sept 20
    7 Virginia Tech, Oct 5
    8 SMU, Oct 19
    9 TCU, Aug 30
    10 at San Jose State, Nov 30
    11 Wake Forest, Oct 26
    12 Cal Poly, Sept 7

    4 Virginia

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 467
    2024 Virginia Preview

    1 at Notre Dame, Nov 16
    2 at Clemson, Oct 19
    3 at Virginia Tech, Nov 30
    4 Louisville, Oct 12
    5 at Pitt, Nov 9
    6 North Carolina, Oct 26
    7 at Wake Forest, Sept 7
    8 SMU, Nov 23
    9 Maryland, Sept 14
    10 at Coastal Carolina, Sept 21
    11 Boston College, Oct 5
    12 Richmond, Aug 31

    5 Boston College

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 514.5
    2024 Boston College Preview

    1 at Florida State, Sept 2
    2 at Missouri, Sept 14
    3 at Virginia Tech, Oct 17
    4 at SMU, Nov 16
    5 Louisville, Oct 25
    6 North Carolina, Nov 23
    7 at Virginia, Oct 5
    8 Michigan State, Sept 21
    9 Pitt, Nov 30
    10 Syracuse, Nov 9
    11 WKU, Sept 28
    12 Duquesne, Sept 7

    6 Duke

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 515
    2024 Duke Preview

    1 at Miami, Nov 2
    2 Florida State, Oct 18
    3 at NC State, Nov 9
    4 at Georgia Tech, Oct 5
    5 Virginia Tech, Nov 23
    6 North Carolina, Sept 28
    7 at Wake Forest, Nov 30
    8 at Northwestern, Sept 7
    9 SMU, Oct 26
    10 at Middle Tennessee, Sept 21
    11 UConn, Sept 14
    12 Elon, Aug 30

    7 Clemson

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 518
    2024 Clemson Preview

    1 vs Georgia (in Atlanta), Aug 31
    2 at Florida State, Oct 5
    3 at Virginia Tech, Nov 9
    4 NC State, Sept 21
    5 Louisville, Nov 2
    6 at Pitt, Nov 16
    7 at Wake Forest, Oct 12
    8 South Carolina, Nov 30
    9 Appalachian State, Sept 7
    10 Virginia, Oct 19
    11 Stanford, Sept 28
    12 Citadel, Nov 23

    8 Louisville

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 519
    2024 Louisville Preview

    1 at Notre Dame, Sept 28
    2 at Clemson, Nov 2
    3 Miami, Oct 19
    4 at Kentucky, Nov 30
    5 at Boston College, Oct 25
    6 at Virginia, Oct 12
    7 Georgia Tech, Sept 21
    8 at Stanford, Nov 16
    9 SMU, Oct 5
    10 Pitt, Nov 23
    11 Jacksonville State, Sept 7
    12 Austin Peay, Aug 31

    9 Virginia Tech

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 524.5
    2024 Virginia Tech Preview

    1 at Miami, Sept 27
    2 Clemson, Nov 9
    3 at Syracuse, Nov 2
    4 at Duke, Nov 23
    5 Georgia Tech, Oct 26
    6 at Stanford, Oct 5
    7 at Vanderbilt, Aug 31
    8 Rutgers, Sept 21
    9 at Old Dominion, Sept 14
    10 Boston College, Oct 17
    11 Virginia, Nov 30
    12 Marshall, Sept 7

    10 Wake Forest

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 554.5
    2024 Wake Forest Preview

    1 at Miami, Nov 23
    2 Ole Miss, Sept 14
    3 at NC State, Oct 5
    4 Clemson, Oct 12
    5 at North Carolina, Nov 16
    6 at Stanford, Oct 26
    7 Cal, Nov 8
    8 at UConn, Oct 19
    9 Duke, Nov 30
    10 Virginia, Sept 7
    11 Louisiana, Sept 28
    12 North Carolina A&T, Aug 29

    11 SMU

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 567
    2024 SMU Preview

    1 Florida State, Sept 28
    2 at Louisville, Oct 5
    3 at Duke, Oct 26
    4 at Virginia, Nov 23
    5 at Stanford, Oct 19
    6 Cal, Nov 30
    7 TCU, Sept 21
    8 BYU, Sept 6
    9 Boston College, Nov 16
    10 Pitt, Nov 2
    11 at Nevada, Aug 24
    12 Houston Christian, Aug 31

    12 Cal

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 570
    2024 Cal Preview

    1 at Florida State, Sept 21
    2 Miami, Oct 5
    3 at Auburn, Sept 7
    4 at SMU, Nov 30
    5 NC State, Oct 19
    6 at Pitt, Oct 12
    7 at Wake Forest, Nov 8
    8 Syracuse, Nov 16
    9 Stanford, Nov 23
    10 Oregon State, Oct 26
    11 San Diego State, Sept 14
    12 UC Davis, Aug 31

    13 Miami

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 574.5
    2024 Miami Preview

    1 Florida State, Oct 26
    2 at Louisville, Oct 19
    3 at Florida, Aug 31
    4 at Georgia Tech, Nov 9
    5 at Cal, Oct 5
    6 at Syracuse, Nov 30
    7 Virginia Tech, Sept 27
    8 at USF, Sept 21
    9 Duke, Nov 2
    10 Wake Forest, Nov 23
    11 Ball State, Sept 14
    12 Florida A&M, Sept 7

    14 Pitt

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 603
    2024 Pitt Preview

    1 Clemson, Nov 16
    2 at Louisville, Nov 23
    3 at North Carolina, Oct 5
    4 at SMU, Nov 2
    5 at Cincinnati, Sept 7
    6 at Boston College, Nov 30
    7 Cal, Oct 12
    8 West Virginia, Sept 14
    9 Syracuse, Oct 26
    10 Virginia, Nov 9
    11 Kent State, Aug 31
    12 Youngstown State, Sept 21

    15 North Carolina

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 649.5
    2024 North Carolina Preview

    1 at Florida State, Nov 2
    2 at Minnesota, Aug 29
    3 NC State, Nov 30
    4 at Boston College, Nov 23
    5 at Duke, Sept 28
    6 at Virginia, Oct 26
    7 Georgia Tech, Oct 12
    8 Pitt, Oct 5
    9 Wake Forest, Nov 16
    10 James Madison, Sept 21
    11 Charlotte, Sept 7
    12 NC Central, Sept 14

    16 Syracuse

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 649.5
    2024 Syracuse Preview

    1 at NC State, Oct 12
    2 Miami, Nov 30
    3 at Cal, Nov 16
    4 at Boston College, Nov 9
    5 at Pitt, Oct 24
    6 Virginia Tech, Nov 2
    7 Georgia Tech, Sept 7
    8 at UNLV, Oct 5
    9 Stanford, Sept 20
    10 UConn, Nov 23
    11 Ohio , Aug 31
    12 Holy Cross, Sept 28

    17 NC State

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 708.5
    2024 NC State Preview

    1 at Clemson, Sept 21
    2 at North Carolina, Nov 30
    3 vs Tennessee (in Charlotte), Sept 7
    4 at Georgia Tech, Nov 21
    5 at Cal, Oct 19
    6 Syracuse, Oct 12
    7 Duke, Nov 9
    8 Wake Forest, Oct 5
    9 Stanford, Nov 2
    10 Louisiana Tech, Sept 14
    11 Northern Illinois, Sept 28
    12 Western Carolina, Aug 29

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