Deacons will play Duke, Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech every season from 2023-26
Wake Forest – and the rest of the ACC – are entering the final football season of playing in the ACC’s Atlantic Division.
The ACC announced Tuesday morning that starting in 2023, the league is eliminating divisions and going to a 3-5-5 schedule model. That means that each team in the league has three primary opponents it’ll play every season, and that it’ll play the other 10 teams twice (once at home, once on the road) in a four-year cycle.
Wake’s three primary opponents are Duke, Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech.
“The future ACC football scheduling model provides significant enhancements for our schools and conference, with the most important being our student-athletes having the opportunity to play every school both home and away over a four-year period,” ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said through a news release.
The elimination of divisions means that the top two teams will reach the ACC championship game.
One note for the 2023 season is that it’s the only year of the four that Wake Forest has a game against Notre Dame – that’ll be a trip to South Bend in late October. It means for the first season after Sam Hartman’s departure, the Deacons will play at Clemson and at Notre Dame.