UPDATE: Florida State 2024 Football Schedule -- official dates released
Here is Florida State’s 2024 schedule:
Aug. 24 — FSU vs. Georgia Tech (in Ireland)
Sept. 2 — Boston College at FSU (Monday night)
Sept. 7 — BYE
Sept. 14 — Memphis at Florida State
Sept. 21 — Cal at FSU
Sept. 28 — Florida State at SMU
Oct. 5 — Clemson at FSU
Oct. 12 — BYE
Oct. 18 — FSU at Duke (Friday night)
Oct. 26 — Florida State at Miami
Nov. 2 — North Carolina at FSU
Nov. 9 — FSU at Notre Dame
Nov. 16 — BYE
Nov. 23 — Charleston Southern at Florida State
Nov. 30 — Florida at FSU
RELEASE FROM FSU:
The defending ACC champion Florida State football team’s 2024 schedule, which features a Labor Day night showcase from Doak Campbell Stadium and eight games inside the state, was released Wednesday live on ESPN2 and the ACC Network.
“We are happy to have our 2024 schedule finalized,” head coach Mike Norvell said. “The additions of three teams to the conference and the ACC’s new scheduling model create new matchups that give our fans different destinations on the road and exciting opponents at home. Because of our tremendous history, there are not many firsts at Florida State, so to open the season with the first international game in program history is special for this team, and then to return to a packed Doak Campbell Stadium for the home opener on Labor Day night will be another exceptional experience for our team and fans. This year’s schedule provides us with a number of opportunities to showcase our program’s continued climb among the nation’s elite.”
Florida State opens its season August 24 with the program’s first international game, the Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Dublin, Ireland, against Georgia Tech. The August 24 date also matches the earliest game in program history, a 38-31 win over Iowa State in Kansas City on August 24, 2002. Florida State leads the all-time series with the Yellow Jackets 15-11-1, including a 15-4 mark since the Seminoles joined the ACC prior to the 1992 season. Florida State is 56-21 all-time in season openers.
The Seminoles’ home opener is September 2 against Boston College. The Labor Day night matchup is the fourth straight stand-alone game on Labor Day weekend for FSU after hosting Notre Dame on Sunday night in 2021 and playing LSU in neutral-site matchups the last two seasons on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. Florida State will be making its eighth appearance on Labor Day and playing in Doak Campbell Stadium on Labor Day for the fourth time. FSU is opening its season with consecutive ACC games for the first time since 2003 when it opened with North Carolina, Maryland and Georgia Tech in the first three weeks. Florida State leads the all-time series with Boston College 16-5 and has won 12 of the last 13 matchups.
After an open date following the Labor Day contest, the Seminoles are home against Memphis on September 14 and return to ACC play by hosting Cal on September 21. FSU, which is facing Memphis for the first time since 1990, leads the all-time series 10-7-1 and is unbeaten in the last nine contests in the series. Florida State and Cal have never met on the gridiron.
Florida State then faces another new member of the ACC on September 28 when it travels to Dallas to face SMU. The Seminoles and Mustangs will meet for the first time, and the matchup will mark FSU’s first road game in the state of Texas since defeating North Texas State in 1976. Since then, Florida State has played three games in Texas, defeating Texas A&M in the 1992 Cotton Bowl and Oklahoma State in the 2014 season opener at AT&T Stadium in Arlington and facing Arizona State in the 2019 Sun Bowl in El Paso.
The Seminoles return home to host Clemson on October 5. FSU leads the all-time series with the Tigers 21-15, including a 31-24 victory at Clemson last season. After a second open date, FSU has a two-game road swing with a Friday night contest at Duke on October 18 and a Saturday game at Miami on October 26. Florida State holds a 22-0 edge over Duke in the all-time series, which includes a 38-20 victory over the 18th-ranked Blue Devils in Tallahassee in 2023, and has won three straight in the series with the Hurricanes.
Florida State wraps up its ACC slate by hosting North Carolina on November 2. The Seminoles own a 17-3-1 edge in the all-time series and have won two in a row under Norvell after defeating the No. 5 Tar Heels at home in 2020 and earning a 35-25 victory in Chapel Hill in 2021. November 2 will mark the earliest FSU has played its last conference game since joining the ACC and is the earliest conference finale nationally in 2024 among schedules released so far.
The Seminoles travel to Notre Dame on November 9, resuming a series FSU leads 6-5. After its third open date, Florida State ends the season with consecutive home games by hosting Charleston Southern on November 23 and Florida on November 30. The Seminoles are 2-0 against Charleston Southern, earning wins in 2011 and 2016, and have played the Gators to an even 14-14-1 mark in Tallahassee with wins in three of the last four games at home.
Florida State earned the 16th ACC championship in program history last season behind a 13-0 record that included a victory over No. 14 Louisville in the ACC Championship Game and a No. 4 ranking in the final regular season Associated Press poll. The Seminoles authored the program’s third 13-win season and seventh unbeaten regular season while producing an ACC-high and program-record 25 all-conference honorees, including at least one at every position led by ACC Player of the Year and first-team all-conference quarterback Jordan Travis.
The 2024 season features 14 weeks between Labor Day weekend and Thanksgiving weekend, giving Florida State three open dates due to playing a Week 0 game. With the addition of Cal, Stanford and SMU to the ACC, the ACC now has 17 football members. Each team will continue to play eight league games a year, and FSU’s two permanent opponents will be Clemson and Miami. The two teams with the best conference winning percentage will meet in the ACC Championship Game at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina on December 7.
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FIRST REPORT
The complete 2024 Florida State football schedule will be released later this afternoon by the ACC, and Warchant TV will be on hand to share the news and provide you with a live reaction show.
The show will begin right here at 5 p.m. ET, and it will feature Warchant founder and administrator Gene Williams, senior writer Corey Clark and director of digital media Aslan Hajivandi.
We actually know 7 of Florida State’s 12 game dates already, thanks to earlier announcements and contractual agreements, and we also know every opponent on the schedule. But we will learn the final five game dates, along with FSU’s three “bye” weeks, when they’re announced by the conference around 5 p.m. ET today.
The following seven games are already locked in:
Aug. 24 — FSU vs. Georgia Tech (in Ireland)
Sept. 2 — Boston College at FSU (Monday night)
Sept. 14 — Memphis at FSU
Oct. 18 — FSU at Duke (Friday night)
Nov. 9 — FSU at Notre Dame
Nov. 23 — Charleston Southern at FSU
Nov. 30 — Florida at FSU
The five remaining games feature road trips to Miami and SMU, and home games against Clemson, North Carolina and Cal.
Stay connected to Warchant.com for coverage of the Florida State schedule release as well as analysis of how the schedule plays out. And watch the live reaction show right here:
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