WINSTON-SALEM – Start times for Wake Forest’s first three football games of the season were among those announced by the Atlantic Coast Conference on Thursday.
Wake’s opener slated for Thursday, Sept, 2, against Presbyterian will kick off at 6:30 p.m. at BB&T Field and will be streamed on ESPN’s broadband network ESPN3.com. Noon is the start time when the Demon Deacons open ACC play by hosting Duke on Sept. 11. That was the first game slotted for showing through syndication by Raycom, which will air games weekly through Nov. 27. The league said Georgia Tech’s trip to North Carolina has also been chosen as a Raycom game and will have a noon start.
Wake’s trip to Palo Alto, Calif., to face Stanford on Sept. 19 will start at 11:15 p.m. Eastern time and is to be shown on ESPN2 as one of 13 nationally televised games so far. It will follow Clemson’s trip to Auburn that day that will be shown on ESPN beginning at 7 p.m.
The nationally televised games begin with UNC facing LSU on Sept. 4 in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Bowl at the Georgia Dome at 8 p.m. (ABC, WXLV, Ch. 45). The ACC concludes the weekend with a rare Labor Day doubleheader with Maryland hosting Navy on at 4 p.m. at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md., and Virginia Tech facing Boise State in an 8 p.m. game at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. Both games will be televised by ESPN.
Nationally televised games on Sept. 11 include Florida State at Oklahoma on ABC/ESPN2 (3:30 p.m.), Miami at Ohio State on ESPN (3:40 p.m.), and a doubleheader on FSN with Georgia Tech travelling to Kansas (12 noon) and Virginia visiting Southern California (10:30 p.m.). In addition to the national exposures, Duke will host defending national champion Alabama on Sept. 18, in a game which will be regionally-televised by ABC at 3:30 pm.
Four games are slated for ESPN’s Thursday night package. They include N.C. State playing host to Cincinnati on Sept. 16 (7:30 p.m.), followed by Miami visiting Pittsburgh (Sept. 23. 7:30 p.m.), Florida State visiting N.C. State (Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m.) and Georgia Tech travelling to Virginia Tech (Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m.).
Four games will be televised on ESPNU. They include Samford at Florida State (Sept. 4, 12 p.m.), Kent State at Boston College (Sept. 11, 3:30 p.m.), BYU at Florida State (Sept. 18, 3:30 p.m.) and Maryland at West Virginia (Sept. 18, 12 p.m.). Two more games – N.C. State at Central Florida (Sept. 11, 7:30 p.m.) and N.C. State at East Carolina (Oct. 16, 12 p.m.) – will be televised on CBSCS.
Sept. 4 games for Big Four teams not slated for television include Western Carolina at State at 6 p.m. and Elon at Duke at 7 p.m.
After the games of Sept. 18, game times and TV will be announced weekly with ESPN/ABC and Raycom Sports making their choices on a 12-day advance notice, beginning on Monday, Sept. 13 for games on Saturday, Sept. 25.
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