Charlotte, NC – The Atlantic Coast Conference and its television partners announced the following football game times and networks for Week 5 of the season on September 29-30. Locally the games of interest will be the Friday night game between Louisville at NC State at Carter-Finley stadium plus the prime-time game on Saturday between Notre Dame at Duke at Wallace Wade stadium.
Duke will host Notre Dame at Wallace Wade stadium on September 30 at 7:30 pm. (photo by Gene Galin)
Friday, Sept. 29
Louisville at NC State, 7 p.m. ET on ESPN – as previously announced
NC State is playing at home on Friday night against Louisville. (photo by Gene Galin)
Saturday, Sept. 30
Clemson at Syracuse, Noon ET on ABC
Virginia at Boston College, 2 p.m. ET on The CW Network
Bowling Green at Georgia Tech, 3:30 p.m. ET on ACC Network
Notre Dame at Duke, 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC
Pitt at Virginia Tech, 8 p.m. ET on ACC Network
ACC Notes
The Clemson and Syracuse matchup at noon on Sept. 30 on ABC will mark the fifth straight week this season that an ACC team has played in ABC’s Saturday noon game – Virginia (Sept. 2), NC State (Sept. 9), Florida State and Boston College (Sept. 16), Florida State and Clemson (Sept. 23).
In Week 1 of the 2023 season, the ACC captivated the national audience, averaging 5.1 million viewers – more than double all other conferences in the highest average per game viewership for the week.
Overall, the ACC was part of three of the top seven most-watched games for Week 1.
Through Week 2, the ACC had three home broadcasts with 4M+ viewers – no other conference had more than one.
During the first five weeks of the season, the ACC will have three games on ABC’s “Saturday Night Football”, as well as 19 appearances combined on ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2.
In total to date, 13 ACC contests are scheduled for national ABC broadcasts and the ACC Network will also feature 18 games.
Of the 13 full national ABC telecasts, 10 different league programs will be featured.