The ACC unveiled Clemson’s 2024 football schedule on Wednesday.
The season will be the first for a 17-team conference, where SMU, Stanford and Cal are the new additions to a campaign that will feature major upheaval for all traditional Power 5 conferences.
Of that trio, Clemson will host Stanford this season (September 28) in an ACC slate that again will pit the top two league records in Charlotte’s ACC Championship Game on December 7. The ACC winner will likely receive an automatic bid in the new 12-team College Football Playoff (a model with the top five conference champions getting auto bids, with the top four champions receiving a top-four seed, is expected to pass a vote later this year).
2024 Clemson football schedule
August 31 Georgia (Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium)
September 7 APPALACHIAN STATE
Sept. 14 Open week
Sept. 21 NC STATE
Sept. 28 STANFORD
October 5 at Florida State
Oct. 12 at Wake Forest
Oct. 19 VIRGINIA
Oct. 26 Open week
November 2 LOUISVILLE
Nov. 9 at Virginia Tech
Nov. 16 at Pittsburgh
Nov. 23 THE CITADEL
Nov. 30 SOUTH CAROLINA
The team plans to hold its annual Spring Game at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 6. Gameday designations for the 2024 season will be announced at a later date.
Schedule notes
AUG. 31 • VS. GEORGIA • MERCEDES-BENZ STADIUM, ATLANTA, GA.
For the second time in three years, Clemson will open a season in the home of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons when the Tigers face the Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday, Aug. 31. Clemson defeated Georgia Tech, 41-10, in its last visit to the facility to open 2022. The Tigers will attempt to earn their first win against Georgia since 2013 in a matchup of regional rivals that have accounted for four of the last eight national championships. In the series’ 17 installments since 1980, the winner of this contest went on to win the national championship three times.
SEPT. 7 • VS. APPALACHIAN STATE • MEMORIAL STADIUM, CLEMSON, S.C.
Clemson will host its home opener on Saturday, Sept. 7, when the Tigers welcome the Appalachian State Mountaineers to Memorial Stadium. Clemson is 98-17-8 in home openers all-time, including home opener wins against the boys from Boone in 1984, 1991 and 1997. The Tigers are 5-0 all-time against App State, including most recently a 41-10 win against Scott Satterfield’s Mountaineers in 2015.
SEPT. 28 • VS. STANFORD • MEMORIAL STADIUM, CLEMSON, S.C.
Clemson and Stanford will meet as ACC counterparts for the first time on Saturday, Sept. 28, when the Cardinal make their Death Valley debut. Clemson won the only meeting between the two programs to date, a 1986 Gator Bowl victory when Danny Ford’s Tigers ran out to a 27-0 halftime lead and held on for a 27-21 win against Jack Elway’s 20th-ranked Stanford squad. Of the ACC’s newest trio of programs, Stanford is the only new addition slated to face Clemson in 2024. Stanford will become only the second team from California ever to play in Death Valley, joining Pro Football Hall of Famer George Allen’s Long Beach State squad that lost to Clemson 59-0 in the 1990 season opener.
